On 26 February 2026, from 15:00-16:30 UK time, IEEP UK will be hosting a webinar on UK air quality standards and the potential for alignment with WHO guidelines. 

Brexit has afforded Britain legislative independence from the EU on air quality regulation, but as our recent IEEP UK report highlighted, we are subsequently falling behind Europe on key pollutants. However, the increasing role of devolved governments in defining air quality policy has already shown how the individual nations of the UK can take it upon themselves to lead the way.

World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendations on limit values are often referred to as the standards to which nations should aspire. Yet, how clear and straightforward is the pathway to aspiring to those standards across the four nations of the UK?

In this session, we will discuss the feasibility of UK alignment with the EU and ultimately WHO standards on limit values, considering opportunities and barriers to those pathways.

For this event we will be joined by Professor Paul Lewis, Emeritus Professor at Swansea University Medical School and Chair of the Clean Air Advisory Panel of the Welsh Government; and Christopher Crompton, Senior Policy Analyst, Air Quality at IEEP UK. Further panellists will be announced in due course.

You can register to attend the webinar here: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6msjwm0tT7u6trX4QDCPHQ

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