2025 Northern Air Quality Conference – AirQualityNews
The 2025 Northern Air Quality Conference. 25th March 2025. We are delighted to announce the 2025 Northern Air Quality Conference will again be at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, taking place on March 25th. This will be our 5th edition of the event, and as ever, we will be bringing together some of the most important policymakers & leading academics who are working on solutions to the ...
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Last month Sarah Legge, Chair of EPIC’s Air Quality & Climate Change Task Group, spoke at our National Air Quality Conference in London about a newly launched guidance document titled: ‘Integrating Action on Air Quality & Climate Change: A Guide for Local Authorities’
After two decades, air quality in England has improved hugely. But…
Dec 6, 2024 · New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies praises the ‘remarkable progress’ that the UK has made in reducing PM2.5 levels over the last 20 years but warns that inequalities in exposure to poor air quality still exist. The report …
2024 National Air Quality Conference – AirQualityNews
Event Details Date: 6 November 2024 Categories: Events Agenda Click here to read the conference report Click here to view the event agenda Speaker Presentations Simon Birkett Clean Air in London View presentation Diana Varaden Imperial…
CO2 affects human health at lower levels than previously thought
Jul 10, 2019 · Exposure to carbon dioxide (CO2) poses direct risks to human health at lower levels than previously thought, research has found. Reviewing current studies on the subject, American academics concluded that exposure to ambient CO2 in indoor environments can have harmful effects on the human body at much lower levels, causing health problems such as inflammation, reduced cognitive performance and ...
97% of global cities do not meet latest WHO air quality guidelines
97% of global cities and all countries failed to meet the latest World Health Organization (WHO) PM2.5 air quality guidelines in 2021, according to IQAir’s World Air Quality Report. The report analysed PM2.5 from air monitoring stations in 6,475 cities and 118 countries, regions and territories, finding that only 3%…
Electric Vehicle Fires — should we be concerned?
Oct 9, 2020 · So i looked up the numbers of vehicles registered in the UK in 2019, and its 38.4 million. Of those, 80 000 EVs. If you consider that 38.3 million vehicles were conventional fuel, and 1898 of them burned, thats 0.005% of gas powered vehicles
Demonstration shows methanol reduces gas turbine emissions by …
Oct 17, 2024 · In a demonstration delivered through Net Zero Technology Centre’s (NZTC) Alternative Fuel for Gas Turbines project, Siemens Energy have successfully operated an SGT-A35 gas turbine on methanol. The SGT-A35 was introduced by Rolls-Royce in the 1970s to providing power generation and mechanical drive applications for the oil and gas industry.
Which European cities have the best air quality?
Jul 14, 2022 · The latest data from the European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals which cities in Europe have the cleanest air. Between 2020 and 2021, Umeå in Sweden and Faro and Funchal in Portugal were the cleanest cities according to the EEA. The data comes from the European city air quality viewer, which…
Glasgow LEZ: traffic levels remain stable but NO2 levels fall
Sep 23, 2024 · A team from the Universities of Auckland, University College Dublin, and Glasgow have been exploring the effects of Glasgow’s Low Emission Zone on air quality, since enforcement began in June last year. Scotland does not operate different categories of clean air zones and the Glasgow LEZ works in much the…