Upcoming WCRAQ Events


Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality Annual Emissions Reduction Workshop Wales

  • Date 5/03/2025
  • Location: Dylan Thomas Suite, Voco St Davids, Cardiff
  • In-person only

15:00 – 16:45: Westminster Commission for Road Air Quality – Emissions Reduction workshop Wales: Using data to inform a pathway to net zero in Wales

14:30 – 15:00: Coffee and tea networking

15:00 – 15:05: Welcome and protocol  Ann-Marie Knegt, Creative Director, Visie Communications

15:05 – 15:20: WCRAQ Progression Update – Barry Sheerman, Chair, WCRAQ 

15:20 – 15:35: WCRAQ Update – Jason Airey, Executive Director, WCRAQ 

15:35 – 16:00: Using data to inform a pathway to net zero in Wales  Duncan Urquhart, Associate Director, Air Quality & Permitting, AECOM/Dr Neil Rowland, Senior Research Fellow, Queen’s Business School 

  • Learn about insights from the analysis of high-resolution data to inform emissions reduction and enable the pathway to net zero.
  • See how road transport and behaviour contribute to local air quality, public health and climate change today and in the future, and see how policy can make a difference
  • Find out how the unique regional sensitivities and uncertainties affect the broader contribution to net-zero pathways.

16:00– 16:30: Questions

16:30 – 16:45: Close of debate – Ann-Marie Knegt, Creative Director, Visie Communications 

Request to attend, please email Ann-Marie Knegt at [email protected].


Energy Fuels and Vehicles Working Party

Theme: Shaping the UK toad transport Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)

  • 18 March, 2025
  • 14:00 – 16:00
  • Chair Jason Airey, Executive Director, WCRAQ
  • Location: online
  • Free to attend for qualified audience

14:00 – 14:05: Welcome and protocol – Sally Cumner, Executive Director, WCRAQ

14:05 – 14:15: WCRAQ update – Barry Sheerman, Chairman, WCRAQ

1415 – 14:30: Introduction to energy fuels and vehicles and WCRAQ strategy for 2025 – Jason Airey, Executive Director, WCRAQ

14:30 – 15:00: Shaping the UK toad transport Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)Florencio Cuervo, CEO, LEVE Mobility 

  • Find out how the ETS Policy Framework is gearing up and what it means for you.
  • Discover the options for the UK road transport ETS – what are the risks and opportunities
  • See the government and industry forums for soft power and implementation schemes.

15:00 – 15:45: Debate and questions – Jason Airey, Executive Director, WCRAQ

15:45 – 15:55: Conclusion and further actions – Jason Airey, Executive Director, WCRAQ

15:55 – 16:00: Close of event – Sally Cumner, Executive Director, WCRAQ

Request to attend: [email protected]


Date TBC (postponed)

  • 11:00-12:30: in-person event only
  • WCRAQ Hydrogen Working Party
  • Location: ULEMco HQ, Liverpool
  • Chair: Jason Airey

Speaker: Amanda Lyne, MD, ULEMco – Timescales and specification/sweet spots for hydrogen commercial vehicle solutions that will deliver CO2 reduction and improved AQ before 2030.

12:30 – 16:00: in-person event only

Email Sally Cumner to request a place at [email protected]


  • Date TBC (postponed)
  • WCRAQ Energy Fuels and Vehicles Working Party
  • 11:00 – 15:00: in-person event only.
  • Chair: Jason Airey

Speaker: Charles Stephenson – JCB HQ Stafford – HICE (hydrogen internal combustion engine)

Email Sally Cumner to request a place at [email protected]



25 November 2024 

  • WCRAQ Air Health Working Party 
  • 14:00-15:30, Teams meeting only
  • Chair: Prof Sir Stephen Holgate 

Speaker: Prof Rosie McEachan, Born in Bradford – Air Pollution and health inequalities.

Email Sally Cumner to request a place at [email protected]


25 November 2024 

  • WCRAQ Education WP
  • 14:00-15:30, Teams meeting only
  • Chair: Larissa Lockwood

Speaker: Nathan Wood, Ventil8 Day on 8 November 2024

Request to attend by emailing Sally Cumner at [email protected]