From 28th of August to 15th of September 2017you can visit the exhibition “Tropospheric ozone in Catalonia” in La clau (Alguersuari street) in Sant Celoni (Catalonia, Spain). The exhibition explains the ozone problem and effects, their causes and possible solutions, and the CAPTOR project of citizen science.
2th setember 12h Sant Celoni The conference will attempt to explain why strong pollution episodes are given by ground-level ozone in the Natural Park of Montseny in Catalonia (Spain), causes and possible solutions. Act jointly organized by the Coordinadora per a la Salvaguarda del Montseny, Plataforma Calidad del Aire and Ecologistas en Acción with the[…]
From 4th until 25th August, you can visit the exhibition “Ozone pollution in Catalonia”, in the municipal market of Manlleu (Catalonia, Spain). The exhibition explains the ozone problem and effects, their causes and possible solutions, and the CAPTOR project of citizen science.
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
Last Friday the Austrian CAPTOR Team was touring in the testbed region of Hartberg. On a bright sunny spring day they visited locations, where they will hang up RAPTORS in June. The RAPTORS will be near the school in the middle of town and on the main square in front of the city hall. Two[…]