Posts Tagged: air quality
Electric cars aren’t the only way to lessen greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, says Marianne Hatzopoulou, a professor in the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. “Decarbonization […]
The many challenges we face to achieve zero emissions with positive outcomes for accessible, healthy, and equitable cities can’t be addressed by technology alone. Policy, planning, and changes in behaviour […]
A multidisciplinary team that includes several U of T Engineering professors has been awarded the 2021 Brockhouse Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the Natural Sciences and […]
The Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE) research suggests a majority of Canadians live in areas where levels of air pollution now exceed recently updated WHO air quality guidelines, […]
An exciting new initiative on the path to decarbonization started taking shape with the “Road to Net Zero,” an exploratory workshop held on August 9. Organized as a broad opening discussion […]
Air quality on Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) subway platforms improved substantially with the rollout of new cars on Line 1, a new study from U of T Engineering and Health […]
UTTRI associated faculty Professor Jeff Brook, Scientific Director and Nominated Principal Investigator of the Canadian Urban Environmental Health Research Consortium (CANUE), spoke to CBC News about how the improvement in […]
Researchers at SOCAAR, in collaboration with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Conservation, and Parks, have published a new method for measuring vehicle emissions from roadways. Traffic is a major […]
In a recently published study, researchers at SOCAAR, the Southern Ontario Centre for Atmospheric Aerosol Research, have found that policies to reduce emissions have yielded co-benefits in terms of reductions […]
Dr. Miguel Jaller, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Sustainable Freight Research Center at the University of California, Davis, presented “Who shops online and how sustainable is the delivery process?” […]
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