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		EU-INTEGAIRE PLATFORM ON AIR QUALITY EXPERTS INTEGAIRE “Integrated Urban Governance and Air Quality Management in Europe” has provided 3 years of effective partnership between a team of urban professionals, scientists and networks, which have an extensive expertise in Air Quality (AQ) management. INTEGAIRE is proposing to establish a European platform on air pollution for city professionals. Today air pollution regulation is based on a common framework in EU countries and INTEGAIRE has found that cities in Europe have similar problems. The EU-INTEGAIRE Platform has scheduled a joint meeting with the EUROCITIES Working Group on Climate Change and Air Quality for the 19th of October in Bristol. Enter the EU-Integaire Platform to find out more.

WELCOME TO INTEGAIRE

Air quality is a major concern for many European cities and is one of the fields where the European Union has been most active in. Cities are working towards a sustainable situation in which all citizens enjoy a good quality of life as well as clean air.

INTEGAIRE was designed to respond to this particular need of cities. Throughout its life, the project allowed cities to efficiently influence the European agenda on air quality and a trustful cooperation has been built between the European Commission and the cities. The project partners have shared experiences, compared achievements and managed to elaborate a set of recommendations for future regulatory approaches, for particular research and funding needs as well as a guidance tool for cities with concrete examples in air quality related issues. It is hoped that these good instruments will support cities to achieve their aims and objectives as regards air quality management and assessment. 

INTEGAIRE partners believe that joint research, effective environmental technologies, active collaboration and awareness rising are key elements to achieve optimum levels of air quality without risks to human health or the environment. All stakeholders need to act at different levels in order to reduce exposure to air pollution: through legislation, through work at the wider international level in order to reduce cross-border pollution, through working with sectors responsible for air pollution, with national, regional, local authorities, NGOs and through the research community.

The INTEGAIRE partners will set up a European platform for air quality professionals in order to continue this life-long learning process on air quality and ensure the involvement and collaboration of all interested stakeholders within cities and at European level.  We welcome any support of interest for this particular action.

We sincerely hope that you will enjoy reading the final report and that this latter will give you the necessary input to quickly progress in tackling air quality challenges.

Eva Baños de Guisasola
INTEGAIRE Coordinator
EUROCITIES
Policy officer of the Environment Forum
Brussels, Belgium

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		Date: 4-6 July 2005 Title of conference: Fourth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases: Science, Control, Policy and Implementation (NCGG-4) Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands From 4-6 July 2005, the Clean Air Section of the Netherlands Association of Environmental Professionals will organise the Fourth International Symposium on Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases: Science, Control, Policy and Implementation (NCGG-4). This event will address the role of non-CO2 greenhouse gases in human-induced climate change and will be conducted in parallel sessions, focussing on the following themes: Sources, sinks and inventories Atmospheric Monitoring and modelling Mitigation and Policy Implementation Participants interested in presenting an abstract or poster are welcome to sent them to cfp@ncgg4.nl at the latest by 1 December 2004. For any further information on this event, please visit the following website: http://www.ncgg4.nl News Submission If you have seen a news item that is related to this project, please feel free to send it to euro@uwe.ac.uk Thank you for your support.