Date: 23 June 2022 at 9:15am – 6pm UK time
Venue: Sir John Laing Building, Coventry University, Much Park St, Coventry CV1 2LT – Location Map, and Public Car Parks and Travelling to Coventry
Conference Programme – Click here to view the conference programme.
Speaker Biographies – Click here to view the Speaker Biographies.
Copy of Professor Reza’s paper on Air Pollution Links to Physical and Mental Health with Special References to Challenges Faced in the Cities and Towns in the Midlands such as Coventry and Leamington
Main Conference Objectives
To Mitigate poor air quality due to climate change and bring all the key stakeholders in the region, and from wider afield together, to discuss how to manage the impact of poor air quality on local residents
Target Audience
Representatives of citizen communities, academia, industry, councils, policy makers, environmental groups, air quality specialists and subject experts worldwide.
Purpose
• To gain a wider understanding of the effects of poor air quality
• To understand what we currently measure and consider its adequacy
• To communicate the above understanding to the widest possible audience
• To share the evidence based on the health and social impacts of poor air quality
• To share good practice
• To understand the likely impacts of poor air quality on Cities with a view to be aware that air quality does not
differentiate administrative boundaries
• To consider possible ways to mitigate against poor air quality
• To agree next steps towards cleaner local air
In collaboration with:
PoliUniBus, CW-AQPC, Coventry University, IET, IMeachE, Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology
Downloads
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- Introduction and the Expected outcome by Professor Dr Reza Ziarati, Chair, C4FF
- The National and Local Perspectives – Government Message by Zarah Sultana – MP Coventry South
- Coventry University student projects/SIG Particulate Matters projects by Associate Professor Patricia Ashman (Student Projects) and Dr Svetlana Alexandrova (SIG)
- Making Coventry’s Solar Future by Tony McNally, Solar Panel Project
- Practical actions to tackle air pollution by Mattie Heaven – Wainbody Councillor and Shadow Cabinet Member for City Services, Coventry Council
- Special Interest Groups, Measurement of NOx by Dr Mark Peckham, Director, combustion
- IET Lecture Air Quality during Commuting by Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh PGCHE, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MIET, FHEA Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems; Nottingham Trent University
- Towards Personal Environmental Monitoring: Miniaturization of Sensors Systems by Professor James Covington, Warwick University
- Afternoon Keynote Speech: Importance of Saving Trees – Study of the diversity of microorganisms in trees by Professor Hendrik Schaefer, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick
- Clean Air Warwickshire – The role of a community organisation in improving air quality by Kevin McGreal, Chair Clean Air Warwickshire
- Work by Engineering Institutions & Business – Hydrogen Train, Climate Action School Assignments & several other STEM activities including IMechE funded Air Quality Sensor and IET and IMarEST STEM Projects John Butler (IMechE), Kevin Blacktop (IMechE), Howard Warrener (IMechE) and Derrick Willer (IET), Paul Burrows (IMarEST)
- STEM Initiatives by Maninder Kaur Laxhman, Young Engineers
Conference Photos Gallery
Great Conference, makes you realise there are some very committed people out there doing sterling work. It just needs Government to pay attention to the truth about Climate Change and Air Quality .