September 2019
Routes to Clean Air 2019
16th - 17th September 2019 Ambassadors Bloomsbury Hotel, LondonThe Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM) presents Routes to Clean Air 2019, a two-day annual conference where air quality, public health and transport professionals, in both the private and public sectors, share their experiences of improving transport emissions. Speakers will discuss a range of topical issues offering their insight into the steps required to improve air quality, including best practice examples and practical challenges faced during implementation. Delegates will gain valuable CPD,…
Find out more »October 2019
Ethics Workshop: Why professionals do wrong and how to avoid it
No organisation can afford to leave ethical decision making to chance. One hasty or ill-conceived action by an employee can harm the reputation of the entire organisation and destroy a career.In a new initiative by the IAQM, we have developed effective ethics training focused on setting expectations of behaviour for air quality professionals in a variety of contexts.For example, how do you react when a client requests a change to your data in a report? How do you establish boundaries…
Find out more »November 2019
Delivering a better environment for the UK?
The context for this year’s EPUK conference continues to be the degree of uncertainty surrounding Government plans for a new Environmental Bill, while the future extent of alignment between the UK’s and Europe’s environmental policies remains unclear. This is crucial: will the Bill really uphold and reinforce our current level of environmental protection? Or will it fall prey to de-regulatory pressures in a UK desperate for trade deals? The conference will have an update on progress, if any, on the…
Find out more »IAQM AGM 2019: Air quality – Past, present and future
The IAQM 2019 AGM will be followed by a discussion meeting looking at the past, present and future challenges within the air quality sector. Imagine a future. NO2 concentrations have fallen rapidly, by 2024 only a few exceedances will be present in London - problem solved? History tells us that when one pollutant is well controlled, another pollutant rears its head. We know that over the next few years the focus will increasingly move from NO2 to PM2.5 and the need…
Find out more »January 2020
Webinar: Air quality and health, 1970 to 2030
This talk will discuss estimates, made by the speaker, of the number of premature deaths per year in the UK. It will look at those associated with secondary ambient air concentrations of ammonia, sulphur and nitrogen oxides etc derived from various primary emissions in Europe over the period 1970 to 2030. Source receptor relationships linking national emissions and PM 2.5 particle concentrations, which are the main health concern, are available from the results of the international EMEP programme, which makes…
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