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]