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CAPER 2024: From Lancaster to The Lakes

Mike Perring, UKCEH. 13^th May 2024

ICP Vegetation: 37th Task Force Meeting. Kaunas, Lithuania

Loads and levels (and a little bit of leisure) in Lithuania

19^th – 21^st February 2024

Mike Perring (ICP Vegetation Programme Co-ordination Centre)

CAPER 2023

Over 16^th and 17^th May 2023, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) played host to CAPER 2023. CAPER (Community of Air Pollution Effects Researchers) brings together academics, students, consultants, practitioners, and policy makers to debate the latest directions in air pollution research and policy in relation to its ecological impacts. Delegates were mainly from the UK, but representatives from Ireland and Portugal were also present.

International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies

Today, 7th September 2020, is the International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies, hosted by UNEP (the United Nations Environment Programme).

The main aims of the day, which will be celebrated globally and repeated on September 7^th in the years to come, are:

a) To raise awareness of the topic in general (sources, effects (incl. on plants), abatement measures, links to other environmental challenges such as climate change);

33rd ICP Vegetation Task Force Meeting

The 33^rd ICP Vegetation Task Force Meeting was held from 27^th – 30^th January 2020 in Riga, Latvia. These annual meetings are a chance for ICP Vegetation participants to meet and present their latest research. Achievements over the past year, and also future plans are also discussed.

5th Asian Air Pollution Workshop, India

Blog article written by Dr Harry Harmens, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

African ozone pollution workshop

"Ozone pollution: A hidden threat to African crop production"

As part of the NERC-funded Official Development Assistance project ‘SUNRISE’ (https://www.ceh.ac.uk/sunrise), scientists of the ICP Vegetation Coordination Centre at CEH Bangor held an ozone pollution training workshop for African scientists from 24^th – 26^th September 2019. Five scientists, with a wide range of expertise, attended from Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. The workshop had 3 key aims:

32nd ICP Vegetation Task Force Meeting

At the beginning of each year, the ICP Vegetation Task Force Meeting is held. These meetings are an opportunity for participants of the ICP Vegetation to come together and share new results and to hear an overview of the activities and achievements made in the past year.