Air Quality Summit: 28th January 2022 10am – 12:30pm

Suffolk County Council have taken down the link to this event but Ipswich CAN have a .pdf copy of this public document.

Please contact us if you’d like us to send you a copy.

The introductory page is as follows;

The Suffolk Air Quality Summit was held via Teams on the 28th January 2022 with participants from across the county. A morning session which covered an introduction to Air Quality, the effects of Air Pollution on Health and the current Air Quality situation across Suffolk was followed by three presentations given by representatives from organisations who are currently working on projects to reduce air pollution both locally and nationally.

Following each session questions that had been raised were discussed. A summary of the questions asked will be included below with information that has been given by participants and speakers both during the event and following it.

Each individual presentation is now available online to view. A link to each presentation can be found following the speaker bio below. Where possible we have re-recorded the presentations with the speakers presenting in order for the information to be accessible to those who were not in attendance at the event.

The event was opened by Cllr Matthew Hicks who provided the opening statement

Good morning and welcome to this morning’s session on Air Quality across Suffolk. As chair of HWB I would like to thank you all very much for taking the time to join us, it’s great to see that so many people have dialled in.

The driver for organising this event was an item on air quality at a previous Health and Wellbeing board where the air quality profile contained in the materials for this event was discussed.

One of the outcomes from this discussion was a recognition that responsibilities around monitoring, managing, mitigating air pollution sit across a number of organisations within the system as well as our individual responsibilities and that a greater shared understanding was needed going forward.

We do not all have to be experts in the field of air quality but as leaders and residents of Suffolk it is important for us all to have a basic understanding of what air pollution is, what drives the difference we see across the county and through time, what we can do to improve the quality of air and how we can support residents to make changes and decisions to reduce their exposure and improve their health and wellbeing.

To facilitate this morning session we welcome a number of expert speakers from our own local authorities and health system, as well as national experts to share their knowledge and experience on Air quality and what we can do facilitate change and improve not only our knowledge, but also the knowledge of our neighbours, staff, friends and family.