Air Quality in Europe - New Challenges

Conference with Exhibition and Posters Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th December 2014 at the Royal Society of Chemistry Lecture Theatre Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.

Introduction:

In several European countries, air quality made headline news this year in a way that has not been seen for decades. While the regulation of emissions, and our understanding of the sources and mechanisms involved in air quality, move forwards, the overall situation may not, as control in some areas is counterbalanced by uncontrolled developments in others.

Following last year's successful liaison with Defra's Air Quality Expert Group, there will be overview presentations on three topics currently being reviewed by that group. They all concern pollution sources that are either relatively new, or that have not received the attention that they merit: shipping, biomass burning and shale gas extraction (often called "fracking").There will also be an update on the EU funded CarboTraf project, focusing on black carbon and other air pollution emissions from traffic.

The AAMG December 2014 meeting will focus on these and related themes. Abstracts are invited that specifically address the effects of shipping, biomass burning and shale gas extraction on air quality, together with other significant but less studied sources. Abstracts are also invited on the ongoing themes of this conference series, new technologies and methods for air quality measurement, and work aimed at greater integration of monitoring with modelling and emissions inventories.

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Item date 11/07/2014