Jo delivering LAQM training to Devon local authorities

Jo will be delivering a two-day workshop of LAQM training to Environmental Health Officers from across Devon on 19th-20th April. The event, hosted by Plymouth City Council, will provide an introduction to LAQM for EHOs who have recently taken on an air quality role. The training materials are drawn from the Air Quality and Carbon Management short courses which the AQMRC run in conjunction with the MSc Air Quality and Carbon Management. Further details on the MSc and on the short courses can be found on the UWE website (http://courses.uwe.ac.uk/H22A1/2012). Alternatively, if you would like us to come and deliver bespoke training for your local authority or region, please contact jo.barnes@uwe.ac.uk.

Jo to present at IAQM Action Planning meeting

Jo will be presenting at the IAQM Action Planning meeting in London this afternoon. Her presentation, entitled 'Barriers to developing and implementing local Air Quality Action Plans', will draw on the findings of her PhD research so far and the LAQM review questionnaire undertaken by AQMRC, UWE and Air Quality Consultants as part of a report to Defra in 2010. Other presentations include Simon Baldwin, Welsh Government: 'Examples of Actions Plans illustrating ‘better practice’ in terms of the integrated environmental policies', Steve Moorcroft, Air Quality Consultants ‘Efficiency of Action Plans (Defra study)’, Emily Connolly and Robert Vaughan, Defra: ‘Review of LAQM – outlining the options for a future regime’.