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Christian Friis Bach, Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe details the importance of renewing efforts against air pollution… Breathe in and breathe out. Hold your breath. If you do this too long, you can feel a strong urge to gasp and...

Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries at the European Commission gives an overview of his priorities for the coming year… The overall aim of the new European Commission, in office since November 2014, is to help improve the everyday lives of people across the continent. Creating and investing...

Dr Eva Csobod, Project Coordinator at the Regional Environmental Center details how the SINPHONIE project is helping to deliver clean air for school children The indoor environment in schools constitutes a particular cause of concern since schoolchildren are a particularly vulnerable group of the population. In Europe, more than 64...

Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries at the European Commission gives an overview of his priorities for the coming year The overall aim of the new European Commission, in office since November 2014, is to help improve the everyday lives of people across the continent. Creating and investing...

Increasingly airtight buildings can lead to a build-up of carbon dioxide in educational facilities, which can affect the concentration of occupants and, therefore, their learning ability. Ventilation and air conditioning systems can, however, be designed to provide the best indoor air quality to maintain students’ alertness. Roberto Mallozi from Klima Therm explains.

Professor of Indoor Air Chemistry examines exposure to indoor and outdoor pollution, through the impacts of cooking and cleaning on indoor air quality

Noel Frost reveals how Yunex Traffic’s School Streets system makes towns and cities safer for children by reducing road traffic, improving air quality and supporting solutions to the climate crisis.

Wilke Reints, Managing Director of Siemens Mobility Limited’s Intelligent Traffic Systems business, turns our thoughts towards intelligent traffic systems (ITS) including comment on traffic volumes, air quality and electric vehicles.

A new guide has been released which sets out simple steps farmers, advisors and contractors can take to reduce ammonia emissions to help improve air quality.

A share of £15 million in funding will be available to UK firms who apply research into reducing freight emissions to improve air quality

Ali Akhtar, Head of Acquisitions, at BT Wholesale, explains how strong local authority partnerships are central to unlocking small cell connectivity.

Ian Newbury, Business Development Director at BT Wholesale, describes how small cells can support greener and more sustainable technology infrastructure and facilitate a better digital future for everyone.

Fort Nelson, British Columbia, is under severe threat from the out-of-control Parker Lake wildfire, which has forced thousands of residents to evacuate.

The EU policy on the Green Deal, climate neutrality, oceans and fisheries, plus the circular economy are examined in this in-depth environment analysis.

Mita Drius and Luana Silveri from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, explain fostering green infrastructure for ecosystem resilience in Alpine regions. The FRACTAL model, we hear, is a bottom-up all-round approach.

Multiple impacts of energy efficiency are at everyone’s fingertips with the MICATool, Frederic Berger, Researcher at the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, explains.

Addressing the issue of expanding car sizes, the importance of parking bays in regulating growth is evident. Let's explore the concerns and potential solutions in the U.K..

Perran Moon, Chief Marketing Officer at Believ, turns the spotlight on electric vehicles, which are critical to cleaner air, reducing carbon emissions and achieving net zero.

Jeremy MacMahon, Chelsea Unkel and Pamela J. Lein from the University of California, Davis, unpack household air pollution, focusing on the gas stove toxicity debate.

The UK is about to embrace the potential of smart tech in towns and cities thanks to a £1.3 million government pilot program.