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[…]
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Ecologistas en Acción impeaches the negligence of twelve autonomous communities in Spain causing health damages to almost half of the Spanish population as well as damages to the vegetation of two thirds of the national territory On 15th of July 2016 Ecologistas en Acción has brought forward an impeachment towards the Spanish State to the European Commission for not developing[…]
15th July, 2016 | Vic (Spain) The particularities of the atmospheric pollution in Osona, their effects and strategies to minimize it. The meteorological and orographic feature of the comarca of Osona in Catalonia means that air pollution is concentrated and values are exceeded alarmingly. There are different contaminants that affect the area: the tropospheric ozone,[…]
Here we present the mural that the artist Rubicon1, with the collaboration of the Plataforma per la Qualitat de l’Aire, made last May 14th on a wall in the Poble Nou neighborhood of Barcelona. The occasion was Pantomacona 2016; the Criticona or critical mass of bicycles that takes place once a year in a Spanish city which was hosted[…]
Our first CAPTORs (measuring nodes) are ready! Watch a short video how the teams from UPC and CSIC in Barcelona built the first CAPTORs to measure air quality: CAPTOR air quality measuring from Barbara Kieslinger on Vimeo.
The Criticona is a cycling event held each year in a different city throughout Spain. It brings together thousands of people from all over the world, who celebrate and promote the use of bicycles. This year the event took place in Barcelona on May 14th and it has been called Pantumacona . In cooperation with the[…]
On the 4th of June 2016 the Symposium on tropospheric ozone and air quality will be held in Madrid, Spain. The event promoted by Ecologistas en Acción has two objectives: to provide training on the problem of tropospheric ozone and the technical legal context to coordinate actions for the common campaign to be developed in[…]
The Spanish partners launched the first call for volunteers on the platform for air quality. Since the volunteers are recruited from Barcelona and other regions in Catalonia the call has been published in Catalan. If you are interested in participating in this project and live in Catalonia, please check the call for further details: http://www.qualitatdelaire.org/2016/05/campanya-ciutadana-dozo-troposferic.html[…]
To raise awareness of ozone pollution in our cities some of our team members put masks on the statues in public places in Barcelona. Watch the short video (in Catalan) to see how even statues feel the need for better air quality!