STEP 2018 Conference Campbell Gemmell. Scottish Air Quality Strategy Review: Progress on CAFS and where now.

1. ScottishAir QualityStrategyReview:
progresson CAFSand wherenow?
CampbellGemmell
ConsultingPartner,CanopusScotland;
formerSAEPAandSEPACEO&
VisitingProfessorinSchoolofLaw, StrathclydeUniversity
STEP2018Conference
5December2018

2. What I’m going to cover …
• Review Mission
• CAFS
• Progress to date 2015-18
• New research, knowledge, data
• Changes to context
• Process and Focus

3. Mission and Backdrop
• Review CAFS
(CabSec/PfG
commitment, ECCLR
recommendation)
• Reflect progress,
challenges, needs,
change, policy breadth
• Review, Report, Consult
• Sc/UK governance
• Brexit
• Broad EU =
• Inputs
• Impacts

4. AQSR
• Steering Group
(10)(breadth/experience)
• Working Groups (4x)
• Workshop (i)
• Sub Reports (iv)
• Final Report (v)
• Consultation (v/vi-vii; w)
• Response/Delivery
(19/20 PfG)
• Themes:
• Health & Environment
• Agriculture, Domestic &
Industrial emissions
• Placemaking
• Transport
• Stakeholders/Sectors:
• Local Government
(tr/EH/planning/comm/ed
)
• Health
• NGOs/Charities (env, tr, h)
• Regulators

5. Steering Group Membership
• Scottish Government (Environment) - Donald McGillivray, Deputy
Director, Environmental Quality
• Scottish Government (Transport Scotland) - Hugh Gillies, Director for
Roads
• SEPA – Jo Green, Chief Officer, Performance and Innovation
• Health Protection Scotland – Dr Colin Ramsay, Consultant
Epidemiologist
• Friends of the Earth Scotland – Dr Richard Dixon, Director
• Scottish Council for Development and Industry – Gareth Williams,
Head of Policy
• Independent experts – Mary Pitcaithly, former Chief Executive, Falkirk
Council; Professor Tom Rye, Director of Transport Research Institute,
Edinburgh Napier University; Dr Annalisa Savaresi, Lecturer in Law,
University of Stirling.

6. Apottedhistoryofissuesandresponses…
Water-
borne
diseases
River
pollution
Smoke controls
Waste
prevention
Economic instruments, EU Directives… and
domestic regulations
Sewerage systems
1850’s 1950’s 1970’s1960’s 1980’s 1990’s 2000’s Now
Waste, water, air, sludge,
industry, EIA, SEA, ETS,
CRC, IED…etc
Endocrine disruptors
Pesticides
Veterinary medicines
Soil damage
Harms to human health and/or the environment
Need to ‘pick
and fix’
PPC WFD
2010’s

7. Tools
• Spatial limits and separations – LEZs, speed limits, segregated routes
• Spatial Planning/Placemaking
• Fleet interventions – EURO- IV-VI, Electric/Hybrid/Stop-Start
• Other Regulation
• Active travel, recreation, health interventions
• More Data, monitoring, reporting, modelling, research
• Awareness raising – communication – engagement
• Travel/Movement (goods, people, services) Hierarchy
• Leadership – culture and behaviour change
• ….

8. Interrelationships
• Epidemiology of toxins and particulates
• Transport Modes, Mix, Impact and Change
• Air quality inputs – industry, agriculture, vehicles,
domestic, transboundary
• Scotland’s Low Carbon/Energy Future
• Domestic/recreational heating
• Climate Change
• Social behaviours
• EU/Brexit/governance

9. Preconditions for Success
• Data, understanding of
inputs and impacts
• Context, culture, authority,
credibility
• EU/UK/Sc legal drivers
• Mission clarity – what are we
trying to achieve
• Public engagement,
ownership, demand
• Role clarity - who is responsible for
what
• Visible beneficial impact

10. Militating/Supporting Factors?
• Media; Public hostility or apathy....
• Ignorance – the failures of nerve and imagination…but first,
education, information and communication
• Capacity and capability
• Uncertainties and big unmanaged drivers
• Other failures - Costs, Resources and competing priorities
• Timing/Context…..being right isn’t (always) enough..but are we on
the right track?

11. Thank you!
Questions?
campbell@canopus-scotland.com