Clean air forums
Action for Air requires a broadly based public forum to be convened every three years, to encourage public input on air quality trends and strategies.
2010
The fourth Clean Air Forum was held on 19 August 2010 at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. In addition to the traditional themes of Science and technology, Air quality and health and emission reduction actions a new theme for the 2010 Forum was 'Future focused technologies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality'.
Around 220 guests from industry, academia, government, environment, transport and community groups attended the Forum with topics covered by speakers and discussion panels including:
- future focussed technologies for cleaner air and greenhouse gas reduction
- science and technology
- air quality and health, and
- emissions reduction actions to improve air quality
Download the Forum program (caf2010program.pdf, 347KB), requires Acrobat Reader.
Forum video and PowerPoint presentations
See and hear the speakers and discussions at the Forum.
Current Air Quality - a technical paper supporting the Clean Air Forum 2010
This technical paper was released at the Forum. The paper is an update to that released in 2007 and summarises ambient air quality trends from 1994 to 2009 and details the results of recent airshed computer modelling of possible emission reduction scenarios to meet the standards for photochemical smog (as ozone) in Sydney.
Download Current and Projected Air Quality in NSW.
Air Emissions Inventory for the Greater Metropolitan Region
Air pollution comes from many sources. In order to develop the best approaches for improving air quality and reducing pollution we need to know the contribution each source makes.
OEH's Air Emissions Inventory for the Greater Metropolitan Region in NSW is a detailed listing of substances discharged into the atmosphere by each emission source type during a given time period and at a specific location. The study area covers 57,330 km2, which includes the greater Sydney, Newcastle and Wollongong regions, known collectively as the Greater Metropolitan Region (GMR). The inventory includes emissions from industrial, commercial, domestic, biogenic (i.e. natural), off-road and on-road mobile sources.
Archive
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Page last updated: 31 May 2011
