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IntroductionGovernment health guidance restricting non-essential travel, working from home and self-isolation during the current COVID-19 pandemic will impact our professional activities and so the Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM) provides the following information. Employers have a duty of care for their employees and employed IAQM members should follow their organisation’s advice as appropriate. Whether ...

Bernard Fisher, the newly appointed first President of the IAQM, opens the IAQM 2020 webinar series with a talk about the EMEP (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme).In this talk, Bernard presents estimates of the number of premature deaths per year in the UK associated with secondary ambient air concentrations of ammonia, sulphur and nitrogen oxides. ...

The 2019 IAQM AGM saw a number of new individuals elected to the IAQM Committee.  We welcomed Chris Rush, Duncan Urquhart, Emma Gibbons, Sam Pollard and Rosalind Flavell to the Committee. Biographies of the new and existing Committee Members can be found on our Who's Who page. Paul Taylor, Sofia Grinary, Graham Harker, Lawrence Caird ...

The Chartered Institute of Ecology & Environmental Management (CIEEM) are looking for presentations for their 2020 Spring Conference on the theme of  Assessment and Mitigation of Air Quality Impacts on Biodiversity.  The conference will be in Sheffield on 4th March.The presentations should meet one or more of the following objectives:To share examples of different approaches ...

This year the award was presented to an IAQM Associate or Member in the early stages of their career at our two-day Routes to Clean Air conference held in London.Entrants were asked to submit an essay on the following topic: The Secretary of State has announced that the Environment Bill should include a “legally binding ...