Organised by Global Action Plan, the Clean Air Day website provides resources for individuals, communities, schools, businesses, local authorities and healthcare professionals.
This year, Clean Air Day takes place just three weeks after the Westminster Government’s Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) consultation, which examined key issues surrounding air quality strategy in England. “We were very pleased to respond to the consultation,” explains Airly CEO Wiktor Warchalowski. “Our submissions addressed a number of key issues such as the paucity of local authority dense monitoring networks to identify air quality hotspots and trends when designing and validating interventions.
“We believe that the Government should mandate local real-time monitoring in AQMAs and near sensitive locations like schools. At the same time, it will be necessary to increase funding specifically for local monitoring, and to enhance best-practice guidance for the use of small sensor networks to give confidence to Local Authorities to make use of this emerging technology.
“We wholeheartedly applaud the recent success of the EAC in the improvement of river water quality through the establishment of a comprehensive nationwide real-time monitoring network. However, the health impacts of air pollution are far, far greater, so we very much hope that the committee will be able to convince the Government that it should mandate and fund local real-time monitoring.”
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