21th July at 19:30 h Andreu Colomer Munmany square in Vic (Osona, Spain) The conference talk will attempt to clarify why Osona is the most affected are by ozone pollution in Catalonia, what are the causes and the possible solutions. The event we organize together Ecologistas en Acción, Grupo de Defensa del Ter and Plataforma[…]
On the 15 and 16th of Setember 2016 the II Symposium on tropospheric ozone and air quality will be held in Valladolid, Spain. European Agency of environment (EEA) and World Health Organization (WHO) latests estimations on the ozone pollution impact in health are very worrying. In the year 2013 caused 17,000 premature deaths in Europe,[…]
Ecologistas en Acción asks the European Commission to open a third infringement procedure against Spain for violating European legislation on air quality. Ecologistas en Acción yesterday lodged a petition at the European Commission to start sanctionary proceedings against Spain for not having drawn up mandatory plans to improve air quality in the fifty areas which[…]
The project made a “very good progress at project and workpackage level” was the feedback that the CAPTOR team received at it’s first review meeting in Brussels, on 7th of July 2017. The presentations about the low-cost sensors to measure ozone pollution, the work how to guarantee a good quality of the collected air quality[…]
Ecologistas en Acción begins his ozone campaign with two objectives: to raise awareness among the population about the ozone problem to contribute to their solution and reclaim the administrations effective plans to combat this pollutant. During the summer an exhibition will join conferences in the more affected locations in Catalonia where the citizen measuring tropospheric[…]
For those of you, who would wish to build their own ozone measurement device, we have a detailed shopping list here: Shopping list As well as a construction manual (in Englisch): Construction Manual Captor
Long overdue step to protect people and nature from harmful ship emissions Rome – An alliance of environmental organisations adopted a declaration to designate the Mediterranean Sea an Emission Control Area to limit air pollution from ships. The alliance has been founded as of 2016 and gathers mainly NGOs from Mediterranean region such as Cittadini[…]
CAPTOR project participated in the DSI Fair 2017 celebrated the last 1-2 February in Rome (Italy). The event allowed to share and learn from Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation initiatives. We explained the project with a stand in the Exhibition area and with the presentation ¨First outcomes from the CAPTOR project on[…]
Four out of five Spaniards have breathed air contaminated by ozone. The central Government and twelve autonomous regions are failing to meet their legal obligations, having not drawn up the plans required by law to improve air quality in the worst-affected areas. More than 37 million people in Spain breathed ozone-polluted air in the spring[…]
María García of Ecologistas en Acción, is participating in the name of the Plataforma per la Qualitat de l’Aire to evaluate the draft law on climate change in Catalonia. Climate change and Air Quality are two sides of the same coin. Greenhouse gases and air pollutants often come from the same sources and are generated[…]