Improving air quality

  Pupils from twelve schools in Liverpool joined together to hold the Let’s Clear the Air virtual conference in July 2021.  The conference was also attended by representatives and speakers from Liverpool City Council, the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority,...

As part of a number of measures to improve air quality around Liverpool City five new air quality stations, complete with ‘reference method’ chemiluminescent Teledyne API T200 nitrogen dioxide analysers, which measure in real-time, were supplied and installed by...

To boost nature recovery and connect more people to nature in Merseyside and Cheshire, the Mersey Forest, through Community Forest Trust, has been awarded £1,326,700 to deliver its Community Forest programme ‘More From Trees’. The programme will improve biodiversity...

Clean air pioneers provide city with food for thought In a secret bunker, a group of scientists may be on the brink of climate change alchemy! A group of scientists working in a secret underground lab in Liverpool have devised a novel way to improve the city’s air...

Liverpool will be monitoring the air that we breathe in real time all day tomorrow (Thursday, 20 June) – as the city marks Clean Air Day. A specially commissioned Air Quality Monitoring Vehicle (AQMV), supplied by air data specialists Enviro Technology, will be on...

An innovative giant living wall, part of a global effort to increase green space in city centres, has been approved by Liverpool City Council. The installation, one of the largest outside of London, will stretch across the outside of the upper floor of St...

LIVERPOOL City Council has been awarded an additional £652,000 by the Government to complete its clean air plan. The money will be used to accelerate the preparation of the document, which needs to be finished by the end of October, and is in addition to...

A total of nine projects which will improve green and open spaces across Liverpool are set to receive cash from planning agreements made with developers.The schemes, which have a total value of £1.2 million, will receive £523,837 of Section 106 funding,...

The Mayor of Liverpool is to appoint the city’s first Climate Change champion to the city council’s cabinet.Councillor Laura Robertson-Collins has been chosen to take up the role on the day the city is set to declare a Climate Change Emergency at a special...

A Liverpool City Council team is causing a real buzz on the green scene after swapping its diesel-driven fleet of vans for cleaner electric vehicles.The pest control crew are out and about five days a week, visiting homes, businesses and public buildings...

Liverpool City Council has taken delivery of 17 hybrid cars, as part of the local authority’s commitment to reducing emissions.The Hyundai Ioniq’s replace a mixture of diesel and petrol cars and vans and will be used by highways inspectors and parking...

2019 has been officially declared as the Year of the Environment for the Liverpool City Region.The Year of Action for the Environment will be led by the Liverpool City Region’s Local Nature Partnership, Nature Connected along with the Combined Authority,...