Communicating harm from greenhouse gas emissions is critical to the debate needed for decisions on major development and infrastructure projects. The 20th June 2024 Supreme Court of Justice decision creates a clean slate to move forward on the need for better evidence on the significance of environmental harm caused by greenhouse gas pollution.

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Aether's air quality team has been providing consultancy services across the UK. Recent projects include EIAs for residential and mixed-use developments in Somerset, ensuring compliance with air quality objectives through dispersion modelling, and advising on ventilation strategies for a redevelopment project in Westminster.

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A newly released briefing by the European Environment Agency (EEA) on the climate change mitigation benefits of circular economy and waste sector policies and measures features a technical report led by Aether, which explores the implementation of European waste policy and the linkages to other reporting sectors.

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Aether contributed to a RSSB project led by Railfreight Consulting to develop a new methodology for calculating maximum trailing loads for freight trains.

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Chris Dore and Annie Thornton were in Geneva this week to attend the Task Force on International Cooperation on Air Pollution.

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In response to the The Written Ministerial Statement (WMS) by Lee Rowley, this piece explores the role of the local plan in Net Zero strategy making and the opportunity presented to take a whole systems thinking approach to carbon emissions to solve the restriction of the viability model on local energy efficiency standards.

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Aether contributed to an analysis of procurement (scope 3) emissions reporting in the Scottish public sector, as summarised in this ClimateXChange report for the Scottish Government. This report aims to demonstrate approaches and tools available to Scottish public bodies to understand and report their supply chain emissions and provide options for action to improve supply chain reporting across the public sector.

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How can we shift societal norms, redefine success, and break the cycle of "conspicuous" consumption to engender revolutionary change that addresses environmental inequalities?

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Aether’s Melanie Hobson worked with the Asian Development Bank to undertake consultation and provide capacity building on MRV and GHG inventory compilation in October 2023.

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AQA news

1 September 2023

Over the last months, the air quality assessment team have been working on many detailed assessments for housing schemes and industrial sites as well as dust risk assessments, air quality neutral and positive statements for developers.

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Aether’s Melanie Hobson worked with the Asian Development Bank to undertake consultation and provide capacity building on MRV to Lao PDR in August 2023.

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Aether provided greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions inventory training to Federal and Emirate level and private sector organisations in the United Arab Emirates.

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