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How multivariate cost benefit analysis can drive effective air quality management
Dhaka is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the largest and most densely populated cities in the world, with a population of 20.2 million people in the Greater Dhaka Area. It is the largest city in Eastern South Asia having frequently topped the index of the world’s cities with the ...
Member consultation: Indoor Air Quality Guidance
The IAQM is consulting members on its new Indoor Air Quality Guidance: Assessment, Monitoring, Modelling and Mitigation (pdf). The document has been produced to assist its members in the assessment of indoor air quality (IAQ). It is guidance for appropriately qualified practitioners and is not intended to be a comprehensive handbook on IAQ.We welcome comments ...
Webinar: The role of local authorities in managing air pollution
In this webinar, Davide Pascarella considers the implications of the Environment Bill on local governments' regulatory framework around Smoke Control Areas. Davide explores and highlights the impact of policy decisions and the real-world delivery of initiatives to tackle the contribution to air pollution from wood-burning appliances. Studies indicate residential wood-burning stoves result in PM2.5 emissions ...
Prevention of Future Deaths Report published following 2013 death of Ella Abdoo Kissi-Debrah
Ella Abdoo Kissi-Debrah died of her asthma in 2013, aged just 9 years old. Her mother, Rosamund, convinced that air pollution had a role to play fought hard to get her inquest re-opened. Eventually, in December 2019, she was successful. A year later, Philip Barlow, the Assistant Coroner for Inner South London, issued a new ...
Webinar: Air quality in the UK – what’s the hold up?
Millions of people in the UK live in areas where levels of pollution are very high and could be damaging their health. In 2019, NO2 legal limits were breached in 75% of air quality reporting zones (33 out of 43). Likewise, in 2018, 115 out of 317 local authorities (36%) had unsafe levels of fine ...