EU Green Week 2021 – DUH Partner Event No.2: Boosting the Zero Pollution Ambition
This year’s EU Green Week is dedicated to the ‘zero pollution ambition’ of the European Green Deal.
The European Commission states, that pollution affects everybody – through the air we breathe, the water we drink or the land we grow our food on. As it is the largest environmental cause of multiple mental and physical diseases and of premature deaths, especially among children, people with certain medical conditions and the elderly, Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) will participate in this urgent discussion and invites everyone interested to join the scheduled partner event described below.
Boosting the Zero Pollution Ambition - How to promote implementation of new WHO recommendations for better air quality and how low-cost citizen science measurements can help
27. May 2021 | 10:30 – 12:00 CET | Zoom-Online-Seminar/ Berlin
Harmful health effects of different pollutants are well known and scientifically evidenced. It is expected that the World Health Organization (WHO) will lower its recommendation of limit values for certain pollutants like particulate matter or nitrogen dioxide in its updated Guidelines on Air Quality. This will not be a surprise. However, with this new document the pressure on political decision makers to update legal regulations and to strengthen measures for better air quality will grow.
The workshop will give an insight on the new recommendations – as far as they are already published –, on the current European regulation and on possibilities for national, regional and local authorities to act for more ambitious air quality standards beyond the European legislation.
In order not to solely end up in a theoretical debate, the workshop will offer knowledge on campaigning with data from low-cost-monitoring to promote for effective measures to improve air quality. With a presentation on low-cost measurement strategy, DUH will offer insights on air quality campaigning with additional data from a non-governmental monitoring network, based on experience with former NO2-citizen-science campaigns.
Afterwards, Sven Giegold, member of the European Parliament and the lead negotiator for the Greens for the Report on the implementation of the Ambient Air Quality Directives, will present, what ambitious demands for clean air recently where adopted by the EU Environment Committee and what path is possible within the European institutions to improve air quality in Europe.
The workshop will end with a discussion, on what kind of effective measures have to be implemented to meet the recommendation and what kind of regulation or directives are necessary on European, national or local level to make those measures possible. It will set a fundament for further action to promote better air quality and to boost the European Zero Pollution Action Plan with means of citizen science measurements.
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