Lyon unveils Oxygen Plan
The city of Lyon has revealed its Oxygen Plan, an initiative to improve air quality across the urban territory. The plan was conceived as a response to an ever more critical issue, since an estimated 40 000 deaths per year are due to air pollution in France, as well as many forms of cancer and other illnesses. In a survey conducted by the city authorities, 83% of the city residents were concerned with the quality of the air. A figure...
Interview with Jacques Touillon, founder of Foobot
We have just published an interview with Jacques Touillon, the found of Foobot. Foobot is a connected device which measures indoor air quality. It can measure the air quality of a home and provide the information directly via a smartphone, or on the device through LEDs that change colour based on the results. In the interview conducted during the Cleantech Forum 2016, Jacques Touillon presents Footbot and also discusses current issues...
Dyson launch new connected purifier
Dyson have announced the launch of a new connected air purifier, which will be capable of cleansing the air of particles as small as 0.1 microns. The new device, called the Dyson Pure Cool Link, which combines an air filtration system and a software system, can detect the internal and external pollution, and is controllable from a smartphone. Dyson, the famous manufacturer of bagless vacuum cleaners, claim that the new device is...
Mayor calls for less traffic in Paris
On Tuesday, April 5, the Socialist Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo spoke on the French media station RTL of “sending a message” to the government, whom she wants she to establish the decrees necessary to implement pollution control measures the capital. If the proposed decrees are passed, all petrol and diesel engine cars produced before January 1, 1997 will be forbidden from being on the road between 8 am and 8pm, as well as...
Record levels of CO2 in atmosphere
The observatory of the United States’ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, reported extraordinary levels of CO2 last week. This year represents the largest annual increase ever recorded since measurements began 56 years ago. Even worse, according to NOAA’s Pieter Tans, 2015 was the fourth consecutive year to have an increase greater than 2 ppm (parts per million), “The CO2 levels are...
China to close over a thousand coal mines
The National Energy Administration of China has revealed in a press release that it intends to close over a thousand coal mines this year. The mines currently produce a combined total of 60 million tons of coal but are now set to be closed to meet the Chinese authorities’ stated aim of getting rid of nearly 500 million tons of coal in the next three to five years. China regularly experiences major pollution peaks which are extremely...
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