Scottish Government LAQM Training Day 13th February 2009

AQMRC and Air Quality Consultants are running a Local Air Quality Management training day on behalf of the Scottish Government (for Scottish Local Authority Officers). The training events will cover updates to Technical and Policy Guidance, useful tips for undertaking Review & Assessment reports, an introduction to the Review & Assessment Online Report Submission Tool and advice for air quality action planning.

Scottish Government LAQM training day 13th February 2009 (click here for more details and registration form).

South West EP-UK & AQMRC 11th Annual Conference

***Note date change above***
Keep 26th February 2009 free in your diary! We're back to Bristol Zoo for the 11th Annual South West Environmental Protection UK and AQMRC Conference. The theme of the conference is Environmental Indicators, where next? The conference will address local authority environmental indicators (e.g. air quality, climate change, land, noise, etc). Detail agenda to follow shortly.

Sustainable Urban Transport Seminar

UWE and Bristol Environmental Technologies& Services (http://www.bristol.gov.uk/ccm/content/Environment-Planning/Regeneration/bristol-environmental-technologies-and-services.en) Networking Seminar
 
 The presentations from this very well attended seminar held on the 17^th November are now available.  Click on the links below to see the PowerPoint presentation of Jose Marquez, Graham Parkhurst and Steve Ward.    

 

• Technologies for Sustainable Transport - Dr Jose Marquez   Egis Mobilité
  
  
• Lessons and Reflections on Recent Developments in Sustainable Urban Transport – Professor  Graham Parkhurst, UWE, Centre for Transport and Society (http://www.transport.uwe.ac.uk/)
• The UWE Travel Plan - Steve Ward

This seminar was hosted by the Faculty of Environment and Technology (http://www.uwe.ac.uk/et/) and Research, Business and Innovation (http://rbi.uwe.ac.uk/internet/Research/researchatuwe/), University of the West of England, in collaboration with Egis Mobilité

Congratulations to Mofoluso Fagbeja on passing his Progression Viva.

See Mo’s work on his research web site at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/mofoluso.html

 

Congratulations to Dotun Olowoporoku on passing the Outline Thesis stage of his PhD.

See Dotun’s work on his research web site at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/dotun.html

 

Congratulations to Simon Baldwin on passing the Outline Thesis stage of his PhD.

See Simon’s work on his research web site at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aqm/simon.html

UKPHA Launch of Climate Connections

On Tuesday 2nd December, Tim attended the launch of the UKPHA's Climate Connections programme, presenting a number of posters highlighting the work that AQMRC  and others are involved in in linking climate Change with Air Quality and other health issues.  

The posters can be viewed here:

AQ, Climate Change and Health - Why?

AQ, Climate Change and Health - How? 

 

The Climate Connection project is an initiative aimed at bringing public health work into the heart of the fight to combat climate change. The launch was chaired by Prof. David Harper from the Department of Health and included contributions from Sir Liam Donaldson (Chief Medical Officer) and Professor John Beddington (Government Chief Scientific Adviser) and was attended by senior members from all the regional public health communities.

 

Further details of the Climate Connection work can be found here: www.climateconnections.org

 

and the programme has also developed the wonderfully entertaining www.carbonaddict.org website.

Latest Newsletter of the European Federation Clean Air and Environmental Protection Associations (EFCA)

The latest EFCA (www.efca.net) newsletter is now available on-line.  This edition contains a lot of material  relating to the co-management of air quality and climate change, including an extensive report on he recent EFCA symposium in Strasbourg which should be making a real contribution to bringing the issues of air pollution and co-benefits to the climate change debating tables this week in Poznan, and next year in Copenhagen.  For further details please download the newsletter here.

 

(AQMRC, is proud to be involved in the production of the newsletter and to support the work of EFCA).

Nurul at Better Air Quality Workshop 2008

Nurul presented 2 posters at the Better Air Quality Workshop 2008 in Bangkok on 12-14 November 2008. The titles of the posters are: a) Applying lessons from local air quality management consultation to climate change, and b) The potential impact from increased use of wood-fuelled biomass to loca air quality in London: lessons to exchange with mega-cities in Asian countries. The posters were well received. The main message from the Workshop is the integration of air quality and climate change particularly in relation to transport sector!