Updates
IAQM responds to DLUHC’s EOR Consultation
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities closed its consultation on the Environmental Outcomes Reports on the 9th June. This consultation related to Part 6 of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill which will secure powers to implement a new system of environmental assessment known as Environmental Outcomes Reports. This will replace the EU-derived Strategic ...
Insights Article: What can air quality learn from net zero?
In 2022 the IAQM launched a Climate Change Working Group, with the aim to explore how air quality and climate change issues can be more closely integrated and how members can be supported and engaged on this topic. As part of this work the Working Group is publishing a series of Insights Articles to stimulate ...
Horizon scanning: Air quality policy
The IAQM has published a briefing paper on air quality policy to support the IAQM membership in understanding and engaging with policy developments in the sector.This is a briefing paper on policy relating to air pollution and indoor and ambient air quality. In recent years, the importance of air pollution has been increasingly recognised, with ...
IAQM responds to Defra’s draft Air Quality Strategy
Defra closed its consultation on the draft revised Air Quality Strategy on the 21st April, after opening on the 11th April. Comments received in the consultation will be used to to help inform the final Air Quality Strategy due to be published later this year. The Air Quality Strategy sets out the actions the government expects ...
Congratulations to the year’s Ian McCrae Award winner Julian Mann!
Julian Mann was named the winner of this year’s Ian McCrae Award at Routes to Clean Air on the 27th September. This year, entrants were asked to submit an essay on the following topic: To what extent could a higher frequency of heatwaves affect ambient air quality in the UK – particularly in urban areas – as ...
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 ...