Sustainable Urban Transport Seminar

Sustainable Urban Transport:Bristol Environmental Technologies& Services (BETS) Networking Seminar

Date: Monday, 17 November, 2008
Time: 17:30 - 19:45
Venue: Street Café, Frenchay Campus, BS16 1QY
Cost: Free of charge

Programme:
1730: Registration and light refreshments1800: Welcome - Professor James Longhurst, Co-Director, Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment
1810: Technologies for Sustainable Transport - Dr Jose Marquez and Martin Volny, Egis Mobilité
1830: Lessons and Reflections on Recent Developments in Sustainable Urban Transport - Dr Graham Parkhurst, UWE
1850: The UWE Travel Plan - Steve Ward
1910: Thanks and Close - Professor James Longhurst, Co-Director, Institute for Sustainability, Health and Environment
1915: Networking
1945: Close

This event is hosted by the Faculty of Environment and Technology and Research, Business and Innovation, University of the West of England, in collaboration with Egis Mobilité.
You can register for the event here
Or for further information, please contact:Tel 0117 32 82808Email rbi@uwe.ac.uk

Defra LAQM TG08 consultation meeting

Consultation responses to the new LAQM Technical Guidance were reviewed and appraised at a meeting of air quality consultants and government representatives at the Defra offices in London last week. Around 25 in-depth responses were gratefully received and the points raised were laboriously discussed and debated to create a useful and workable set of guidance for local government. The document will be reworked and completed over the next couple of months with a provisional deadline for publication before Christmas. Join the Review and Assesment mailing list to receive email notification of further updates on LAQM Guidance.

EP-UK: 'Local Action on Air Quality and Climate Change'

Environmental Protection UK held their training event: Local Action on Air Quality and Climate Change at the Aston Business Centre in Birmingham last Wednesday. The sell-out meeting was attended by Jo Barnes, on behalf of the AQMRC, and included a range of interesting speakers from central and local government, consultancies, industry and lobbyists. Presentations are available from the EP-UK website http://www.environmental-protection.org.uk/events/details/?id=1234.

Interreg IV - PARM

Jo Barnes represented the AQMRC last week at a meeting of potential western UK partners of a major new INTERREG IV project: Partuculates Air Rives Manche (PARM). The multi-million euro investigation links air quality experts in northern France and southern England to monitor particulates (PM10 and PM2.5) and disseminate data, best practice and public awareness materials. Other potential western partners include the Air Quality Unit at Cornwall College, Cornwall Council, Teignbridge District Council, Torbay District Council, Weymouth & Portland District Council and Plymouth City Council. The eastern contingent are represented by EP-UK, Sussex Air Quality Partnership and Kent District Council. The project bid will be submitted in February 2009, so watch this space for further information...

Global visitor distribution map

Visitors click here to see the latest global distribution of interest in our work. Please drop us a line if you were one of our global visitors and tell us what you liked (or didn't!) about our site. Email aqmrc@uwe.ac.uk.

Tim is invited participant in major Asian Governance workshop

Tim has gone to the Philippines to participate in a workshop funded by the Asia-Europe Foundation and the Eastern Regional Organization for Public Administration (EROPA).

The workshop is part of a move to develop a pan-Asian higher education curriculum for teaching environmental governance.

 

http://ecogov.blogspot.com/2007/08/asia-europe-workshop-towards.html

 

Tim will be presenting aspects of AQMRC's work in relation to South Africa and Asia, as well as discussing the special role of academia within environmental governance and the current work for Herda developing higher education materials for air quality and carbon management.

 

The workshop is being held as part of a major conference looking at 3 core aspects of governance in Asia "Governance in a Triptych: Environment, Migration, and Peace and Order"

Air Quality & Carbon Management Project Steering Group

AQMRC welcome members of Air Quality & Carbon Management Project Steering Group for the first Steering Group meeting which will be held on 16th October 2008 at UWE. This project, funded by HERDA-SW, will develop training materials on the subjects of air quality and carbon management to meet the higher level skills needs of air quality professionals. Members of the Steering Group are Prof. Bernard Fisher (the Institute of Air Quality Management), Ed Dearnley (Environmental Protection UK), Dr Nick Davey (entran Ltd) and representatives of South West Local Authorities - Steve Crawshaw (Bristol City Council), Denise Powell (Gloucestershire Pollution Group), and Sarah Hodgson (Teignbridge District Council).

Jim in Science Cafes - October 27th at the Tobacco Factory

Jim will be speaking about Air Quality Management at the Tobacco Factory on 27th October, at 7.30pm. His talk will discuss why, when we know so much about the cause and composition of air quality problems, are we not making more progress in improving air quality?

Science Cafes are informal and free meetings to explore the latest ideas in science and technology.

Click here to get directions to the Tobacco Factory.

Enda attends NACA Conference in South Africa

Enda presented two papers at the 16th International Union of Air Pollution Prevention and Environmental Protection Associations (IUAPPA) regional conference in association with the annual meeting of the National Association for Clean Air (NACA) in South Africa last  week. The conference was held from 1st - 3rd October near the Kruger National Park under the theme of "Where did all the Clean Air go?". Enda presented papers co-authored with AQMRC colleagues  entitled: "Ten years of air quality management in the UK: A model for the South African National Framework on air quality" and "The potential impact from increased use of wood-fuelled biomass on local air quality in London: Lessons to exchange with mega-cities in developing countries". Enda was also invited to sit on an IUAPPA special panel on "Linking air pollution and climate change: The challenge for Africa".

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Air Pollution 2008 - Jim's opening address

Air Pollution 2008
Sixteenth International Conference on Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution
22-24th September 2008
Skiathos, Greece.

Read conference co-Chair Jim Longhurst's opening address to the Air Pollution 2008 conference here.

AQMRC Responds to Consultations

This autumn has seen a frenzy of consultation deadlines, and over last week AQMRC has sent in responses to the consultations on the new UK LAQM Guidance and the National Health Service Carbon Reduction Strategy.  For further information on our views, please contact us at aqmrc@uwe.ac.uk