As the Royal College of Physician’s special advisor for air quality and Clean Air Champion, Professor Holgate gave evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on the government’s outdoor and indoor air quality targets. The evidence included key insights into the accumulative effect air pollution on human health, how the way we perceive air pollution has changed greatly since its more visible appearance in the 1950s, and how a collaborative approach to setting interim air quality targets is key to tackling what has become a significant contributor to ill health.

Professor Holgate said: “The knowledge base now around adverse health conditions and air pollution is very high indeed’.

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