Schools have no budget for air, said George Friend, chair of the Building Engineering Services Association ventilation hygiene group at their latest webinar.
Tag: air quality
FleetNews: Birmingham Council launches new air quality action plan
Birmingham City Council has approved a new air quality action plan for public consultation.
Guardian: India falls back in love with bikes after COVID-19
With cases of COVID-19 surging past the one million mark, Indians are shunning crowded buses and trains to travel on what has traditionally been regarded in this status-conscious society as the poor man’s mode of mobility: the bicycle.
Report urges the banning of SUV adverts to meet UK climate goals
Sports utility vehicles emit more greenhouse gases than any other car. A report by the New Weather Institute thinktank and the climate charity Possible, has recommended the banning of SUV advertisements in the UK, as a measure to meet UK climate goals.
Air Quality News: Can better data give us the political will to address air pollution?
COVID-19 has given us the opportunity to address toxic emissions – can better data give us the political will to do it, writes Dani Simons, head of public sector partnerships at Waze a live navigation platform that utilises technology and…
Guardian: Air pollution still down despite normal return to traffic – study
Air pollution has remained at lower levels in UK towns and cities despite a return to near-normal traffic levels after the easing of coronavirus restrictions, according to research. Analysis of data from more than 100 urban roadside locations shows nitrogen dioxide…
Chair of Air Monitoring talks about the COVID-19 effect on air quality on Channel 4
Roland Leigh, WCRAQ’s Chair of Air Monitoring, appeared on Channel 4’s Dispatches documentary, Coronavirus: How Britain is Changing. As Technical Director of EarthSense, he discussed how COVID-19 has caused a change in air quality and what this means for the…
British Heart Foundation: Government publishes analysis on how lockdown has affected air pollution levels
A report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) assessing the impact of lockdown measures to the end of April has revealed that overall concentrations of PM2.5 have been higher in this period than in previous years …read more
The Ecologist: Unequal access to air quality information
Half of world’s people lack access to air quality data, hampering efforts to tackle one of biggest public health threats There is a huge global inequality in access to information about air quality, a new report released today by OpenAQ, an international…
Autonews: China considers in-car air quality regulations, report says
China is considering implementing mandatory in-car air quality regulators in order to protect the health of drivers. Regulators will test the level of contaminants of formaldehyde and benzene. Is this a headache or a step in the right direction? BEIJING…