Updates
Air quality and climate change: How can both win?
This article is the first thought piece published on the IAQM website. These thought pieces are designed to provide a view on topical issues affecting those working in air quality. This thought piece has been authored by Dr Xiangyu Sheng, IAQM Committee member and member of the IAQM Climate Change Working Group. Although climate change and ...
Entries open for this year’s Ian McCrae Award
Dr Ian McCrae was a very well-respected and widely liked air quality practitioner who worked for TRL. He made significant contributions to the understanding of emissions from transport and their links with air quality. In his honour, the IAQM will present the Ian McCrae Award to an IAQM Associate or Member in the early stages of their career (approximately the first ten ...
IAQM responds to Defra’s environmental targets consultation
Last week Defra closed its consultation on the long-term environmental targets set out as part of the Environment Act 2021. The Environment Act requires that the government set at least one long-term target in each of the following areas: air quality, water, biodiversity, and resource efficiency and waste reduction. It also requires targets to be set ...
IAQM launches Climate Change Working Group
In the lead up to COP26 the IAQM launched a survey collecting member views on the impact of climate change policy on air quality professionals. One of the key findings from the survey was that an overwhelming majority (92%) of members think that the IAQM should provide more support in the area of climate change ...
Join our Early Careers Network Committee
The IAQM Early Careers Network was established in 2017 to provide IAQM Early Career professionals with a platform to develop skills, network with fellow professionals and gain valuable CPD. Since the group’s inception, there have been a series of meetups, providing a forum for early career professionals to learn, practice presentation skills and network, in ...
Prof Frank Kelly elected as IAQM Honorary Fellow
The IAQM are delighted to announce that Professor Frank Kelly has been elected as an IAQM Honorary Fellow at the IAQM AGM. Professor Kelly holds the Humphrey Battcock Chair in Community Heath Policy at Imperial College London, where he is Director of the Environmental Research Group, Director of the NIHR Health Protection Research Unit on Environment ...