This document discusses approaches to assessing air quality and climate change impacts in an integrated and holistic manner. It provides an overview of key policies and targets relating to air quality, climate change mitigation and adaptation in the UK. It also outlines examples of how impacts may be assessed for a transport project, including evaluating options, modeling air quality impacts, assessing construction impacts, quantifying carbon, and ensuring climate resilience. The goal is to identify opportunities to reduce emissions and increase sustainability across all stages of a project's lifecycle.
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Dr Claire Holman, Brook Cottage Consultants/University College London, Chair, Institute of Air Quality Management
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Dr Xiangyu Sheng AQCC Temple RTCA 27Sept2022 slides.pdf
1. Air Quality & Climate Change, how
holistic is holistic approach?
Dr Xiangyu Sheng
27th September 2022, RTCA Conference
2. WHO WE ARE
“TEMPLE IS A LEADING
PURPOSE-DRIVEN,
CLIENT-CENTRIC,
ETHICAL BUSINESS.”
3. Headquarters in London, we have a 200-person strong team
based throughout the UK. By forming inclusive alliances with
our clients, associates, other environment, planning and
sustainability experts, we make a meaningful environmental
and social difference together and offer an authentic,
unrivalled service.
Our aim is always to accelerate sustainable action and
positive change for our clients, communities and planet.
We partner with others who share the same ethos and
commitment.
The result? Almost a quarter of a century of positive change
and outcomes of which we are incredibly proud.
WHO ARE WE?
Temple is a specialist environment, planning and sustainability consultancy
4. • Business & Finance
• Cities & Regions
• Property & Construction
SECTORS
Covering all sectors where our expertise and innovative solutions deliver the
most benefit, Temple’s specialist teams work embedded with clients, as well as
with standalone experts and as part of multi-disciplinary teams.
SERVICES
• Planning & Design
• Social Value & Engagement
• Air Quality, Carbon & Climate, Noise &
Vibration
We provide a comprehensive and specialist environment, planning and
sustainability service offering. Helping our clients to make the most of
opportunities and support them in achieving their long-term environmental
social and business outcomes.
• Advisory & Sustainability
• Digital
• Environment & Ecology
• Transport & Infrastructure
• Environment, Energy & Water
• Agriculture & Land Owners
5. A Tornado of Change
Green Investment
/ Corporate ESG
Public Opinion
Technological
disruptors
Legislation,
Strategies and
Other Policy
6. Legislation, Strategies and Other
Policy
• Climate Change Act 2008 (2050 Target Amendment Order) 2019
• Hydrogen Strategy (Aug 2021)
• Decarbonising Transport (June 2021) / Road to Zero (Jul 2018)
• Green Finance Strategy (July 2019)
• Clean Air Strategy (Jan 2019)
• Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener (Oct 2021)
• 25 Year Environment Plan (Jan 2018)
• UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 3 (June 2022)
• London Plan (Mar 2021)
• Influence of Brexit?
9. Air Quality Guidelines
Pollutant UK Air Quality
Objective/Target
Scotland Air
Quality
Objective/Target
WHO Air Quality
Guideline
Measure
d As
Nitrogen
Dioxide
(NO2)
40 µg/m3 40 µg/m3 10 µg/m3 Annual
Mean
Particulate
Matter
(PM10)
40 µg/m3 18 µg/m3 15 µg/m3 Annual
Mean
Particulate
Matter
(PM2.5)
25 µg/m3 10 µg/m3 5 µg/m3 Annual
Mean
DEFRA consultation: Environmental targets
Environmental Act 2021
PM2.5 target 10 µg/m3 2040 – is it good enough?
Target to be published by 31 October 2022
11. COP26
• Secure global net zero by mid-century and
keep 1.5 degrees within reach
• Adapt to protect communities and natural
habitats
• Mobilise finance
• Work together to deliver
COP26:
• finalise the Paris Rulebook (detailed rules that
make the Paris Agreement operational)
• accelerate action to tackle climate crisis
through collaboration between governments,
businesses and civil society.
The World needs to halve emissions over next
decade to reach net zero carbon emissions by
middle of the century if we are to limit global
temperature rises to 1.5 degrees.
Goals
13. 2022 CCC Progress Report
• A 68% cut in our emissions by
2030 and 78% by 2035,
compared to 1990 levels
• Energy networks must be strengthened
• Infrastructure to make it easy for people to
walk, cycle, and work remotely
• Moving towards a circular economy.
Opportunities to support transition and recovery
by investing in UK’s workforce, and in lower-
carbon behaviours and innovation:
• Reskilling and retraining programmes
• Leading a move towards positive behaviours
• Targeted science and innovation funding
Decarbonisation priorities and opportunties
14. Carbon Budgets and Trajectories
Allocated from a Global budget and can be allocated at a sub-national and Local Authority
level through ‘grandfathering’ or other methods.
Ref: Sixth Carbon Budget, UK , Dec 2020: https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/sixth-
carbon-budget/
Carbon Budges
15. Air Quality and Climate Change:
two sides of same coin
Climate change Impact on air
quality
• Increased storminess and precipitation
• Drought
• Higher temperatures and ozone
• Stagnation events……
Air quality impact on Climate
• Black carbon
• Aerosols and clouds
• Tropospheric ozone
16. Air Quality and Climate Change:
two sides of same coin
Climate mitigation impacts on air
quality
• Renewables Energy efficiency
• Electrification
• Food production
• Forestry, bio-crops and biogenic emissions
• Hydrogen as fuel
• CCS
• Building energy efficiency
Ref: Impacts of Net Zero pathways on
future air quality in the UK, AQEG, June
2020
Example sectoral analysis : climate
mitigation impact on air quality-net zero
17. Climate Change in EIA
• IEMA EIA Climate Change Resilience &
Adaptation (June 2020) guidance provides an
overview to ensure that climate resilience is
considered appropriately and that mitigation is
appropriate not only now, but for the future.
• The Climate Change Act (2008, amended 2019)
set up a framework for the UK to achieve its
long-term goals.
• The 2017 EIA Regulations seek to account for
climate in greater detail than before and requires
a description of ‘the impact of the project on
climate’, and ‘the vulnerability of the project to
climate change’
• Climate change mitigation on climate
• Climate change resilience from climate
18. Climate Change in EIA
EIA guide to: Assessing Greenhouse Gas
Emissions and Evaluating their Significance
(Feb 2022):
• The GHG emissions from all projects will
contribute to climate change
• The EIA process should, at an early stage,
influence the location and design of projects to
optimise GHG performance and limit likely
contribution to GHG emissions
• Project can be evaluated in the context of
emissions reductions on a trajectory towards
net zero, e.g the total and interim carbon
budgets by the CCC
Climate Change Mitigation
The goal of the CC Chapter should:
• Identify the existing sources of GHG currently at
the site, and consider how these may change
under a ‘do-minimum’ scenario;
• Identify the likely sources of GHG emissions
arising from the construction, operation and
decommissioning of the proposed development,
and quantify them as far as practical; and
• Consider measures in which different
alternatives (such as development type,
construction methodology, operating
mechanisms, and end of life uses) can
demonstrably reduce GHGs.
19. PAS 2080
One of the outcomes of the ICR was the recommendation of a low carbon PAS….PAS 2080 was
designed to specifically address the management of carbon in infrastructure.
PAS 2080 creates a more systematic way for managing whole life carbon in the delivery of infrastructure.
It joins up the value chain and requires all leaders to establish effective governance systems in reducing
whole life cycle carbon.
Individual value chain requirements centre around:
• Identify the existing sources of GHG currently at the site,
and consider how these may change under a ‘do-minimum’
scenario;
• Identify the likely sources of GHG emissions arising from
the construction, operation and decommissioning of the
proposed development, and quantify them as far as
practical; and
• Consider measures in which different alternatives (such as
development type, construction methodology, operating
mechanisms, and end of life uses) can demonstrably
reduce GHGs.
20. Net Carbon Zero (embodied,
renewables onsite/ offsite generation)
22. Example: A Transport Scheme: Air Quality, Climate
Change and Carbon assessment
Air Quality Assessment
• Baseline
• Consultation with LAs
• Construction Dust
• Detailed AQ modelling assessment
Climate Change assessment:
• Review Climate data for the area concerned from UKCP;
• Assessment of the vulnerability of the scheme to climate change;
• Review any methods used to offset any carbon impact and recommended
further measures if necessary
Carbon Assessment
• Embodied Carbon ( Construction) , Energy provision ( Operational)
• Materials
• Transport of Materials
• Energy Use ( operational)
• Business and Employees Transport (operational)
• Waste
23. Options Appraisal
In line with WebTAG, an assessment of
different options of the scheme was
assessed.
Consider the AQ health impacts, both
locally and regionally, as well as the
monetary values of these impacts.
Combined with other factors such as
transport, noise, landscape, biodiversity
to determine the best option to take
forward for further assessment at the
planning stage.
24. Detailed Traffic Assessment
• Concentrations predicted at existing
and new sensitive receptor
locations.
• Results showed an increase in
pollutant concentrations at
receptors adjacent to the new
scheme (as expected), and a
decrease in concentrations at
receptors within the City Centre and
AQMA locations.
Map Illustration purpose Only
Overall beneficial impact of
the scheme.
25. Construction Dust
Assessment
Undertook a construction dust assessment in line with the IAQM Guidance.
Activity Demolition Earthworks Construction Trackout
Dust soiling Low risk Medium risk Medium risk Medium risk
Human health Negligible risk Low risk Low risk Low risk
Ecological Medium risk High risk Medium risk High risk
Recommended mitigation measures to be included as part of the CEMP, after the implementation
of, the risk would be minimised to negligible.
26. Carbon Assessment and
Offsetting
Utilised the National Highways Carbon Tool
to determine the embodied carbon within
the construction of the scheme, as well as
the carbon emissions resulting from traffic
associated with the operation of the new
road.
Where a scheme produces embodied and
operational carbon, it is possible to offset
any carbon emissions that have not been
able to be reduced in the design stage.
For this scheme this included planting
additional trees to sequester carbon
associated with the scheme. Other
offsetting measures include contributing to
a fund (usually at a cost per tonne).
29. Climate Change Resilience
As climate change brings the risks of more extreme weather events it
is important any long term schemes are designed in order to
withstand future weather events which may make the scheme more
vulnerable to the impacts of climate change.
These could include for example:
Providing more areas of shading to pedestrians due to more frequent heat waves
Providing more areas of shading to pedestrians due to more frequent heat waves
Making the scheme more resilient to more frequent and worse flooding
Making the scheme more resilient to more frequent and worse flooding
Planting tress, shrubs and plants which are more likely to withstand such more frequent
weather events
Planting tress, shrubs and plants which are more likely to withstand such more frequent
weather events
30. Dr Xiangyu (Sian) Sheng
Temple
Xiangyu.Sheng@templegroup.co.uk
THANK YOU
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