Agile activities

iLEAPS stands for the integrated Land Ecosystem Atmospheric Processes study, which acts as a communication hub and coordinator of world-wide scientific research in the field of ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges. 

It is a global network linking iLEAPS scientists to key societal challenges related to the Sustainable Development Goals, especially those on Health, Biodiversity, Climate, Food and Fuel security. The project office is hosted and managed by UKCEH.

Main outputs/activities:

• Support the iLEAPS steering committee
• Develop and share communications with the network
• Organise conferences, workshops and seminars
• Represent the iLEAPS community

Take a look at the iLEAPS website for more information. 

UKCEH has been the long-standing secretariat for the UK National Committee for the Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme of UNESCO, which is one of the key multinational programmes for hydrology. Through this high level involvement in what is one of the key multinational programmes for hydrology we facilitate opportunities for UK scientists to engage in coordinated scientific initiatives and publications, maximising the impact of UK research investments – including those related to hydrometeorological adaptation and water-related net-zero trade-offs. 

This work is well aligned with the aims and requirements of National Capability. It supports the FCDO in delivering on the UK Governments ambitions around multilateral engagement through intergovernmental science. Is also facilitated the engagement of multiple universities and other research organisations in the activities of the UNESCO IHP - something that contributes to the estimated £151 m of financial benefit that UNESCO engagement provides to the UK each year. 

Main outputs/activities:

• Facilitate opportunities for UK scientists to engage in coordinated scientific initiatives and publications, maximising the impact of UK research investments – including those related to hydrometeorological adaptation and water-related net-zero trade-offs.
• Maintain and enhance UK contributions to the IHP Ninth Phase and support wider UK Government engagement with UNESCO through coordination of the UK National Committee.
• Support the FCDO in delivering on the UK Governments ambitions around multilateral engagement through intergovernmental science.
• Facilitate the engagement of multiple universities and other research organisations in the activities of the UNESCO IHP - something that contributes to the estimated £151M financial benefit that UNESCO engagement provides to the UK each year.

Understanding the reproductive and early-stage demographic barriers to forest recovery after logging. 

Forest restoration is a key approach to GHG and climate change mitigation, as demonstrated through national restoration targets – tree planting is not practically and economically possible at vast scales, so we need to direct the limited resources to ecosystems that face barriers to natural regeneration. The community composition of forests potentially has implications for long-term ecosystem service provision and resilience. 

This study extends the work initially conducted under a NERC Urgency grant (2018-2020) which found that initial seedling densities were very high in restored forests, but mortality rates were also much higher, and the plant community composition varied across forest types.

Main outputs/activities:

Establish a long-term phenological observatory.  

• Test a novel approach to quantify seed fall using image analyses based on machine learning using a network of camera traps.  
• Strengthen the national and international community working on restoration best practice and long-term forest resilience 
• Establish a platform for ongoing research on phenology, reproductive function, and regeneration, pushing forwards the knowledge on feasibility of forest restoration as a NetZero+ strategy.  
• Contribute further information to NC-International projects working on forest restoration and oil palm. 

Wildfire events have come to epitomise climate change impacts, damaging infrastructure and property, ecosystems, and carbon stocks. UKCEH-led work has shown that extreme wildfire events are increasing and will continue to increase with our changing climate and land use. Yet determining mechanisms that drive individual wildfire events remains elusive. The recent UNEP report “Spreading like Wildfire” and IPCC reports identified this knowledge gap as a leading cause of uncertainty in mitigation and adaptation to climate change because of the risk wildfires pose to forest carbon sequestration, human health and unknown fire management resource demands. While for the global carbon project, which supports international carbon cycle science and informs critical policy debates over future emissions policy, fire’s carbon role is one of the few processes it does not account for.

This Agile activity aims to solve this critical gap by developing our fire attribution framework, ConFire, to quantify human management, vegetation and meteorological influences contributions to wildfire events and the severity of impacts on carbon stocks and air quality. It will use this to explore land use and management options that may mitigate wildfire increases in the future.

Main outputs/activities

• Developing framework for carbon emissions
• Developing rapid attribution protocol
• Constraining fire net impact on the global carbon cycle
• State of Wildfires report 2024/25
• Host Annual Wildfire Report Workshop

Action towards NetZero targets and/or climate change mitigation and adaptation will have knock-on consequences for biodiversity. Understanding these interactions is hampered by a lack of standardized biodiversity monitoring, particularly for insects which are important due to their high diversity, rapid response to environmental perturbation and the many ecosystem functions they provide. This Agile activity aims to develop a global network and best practice for butterfly monitoring as an exemplar insect monitoring approach. This will strengthen the position of UKCEH by extending our existing networks to build international collaborations and initiatives with the international research communities, NGOs and Higher Education Institution.

Main outputs/activities:

• Work with the global butterfly monitoring community to implement sampling protocols towards a global monitoring network
• Work with the African Lepidoptera society to promote butterfly monitoring across a number of countries (e.g. South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya)
• Engagement with environmental monitoring community to integrate biodiversity monitoring approaches alongside other domains (e.g. climate monitoring stations)

Developing a globally useful visioning and forecasting framework for biodiversity, people, and climate neutrality in Korea

This activity aims to contribute to biodiversity science and practice by applying the framework and approaches proposed by the IPBES Scenarios and Models Taskforce - Nature Futures Framework (NFF) and its methodological guide – in Korea by:  

1. Developing nature and people positive future visions and pathways at a national scale (‘Nature Future narratives’),  
2. Developing a joint modelling framework that would enable dynamic biodiversity and climate feedbacks modelling to simulate multiple pathways (‘Nature Future scenarios’).

Main outputs/activities:

• Refinement and completion of LULC maps of four 2050 Nature Future visions using the SEALS model and expert input
• Korean Nature Futures pathway analyses with nexus systems analyses of today and future visions, resulting from 2024 Visioning Pathway Workshop, towards a publication  
• JULES, CESM, InVEST model set up and simulations using LULC projections for biodiversity-climate-society feedbacks modelling, using national observation data where feasible
• Integrative scenario analyses of modelled results on land use, biodiversity, climate, and human wellbeing, towards a publication in 2026
• Design and prepare the Visioning Policy Workshop at 2025 Ecopeace Forum  

See https://www.koreannaturefutures.net/ for further details

Sustainable Phosphorus Summit (SPS) 2025 Ghana and establishment of an African Sustainable Phosphorus Network

The SPS as an international, multi-stakeholder conference to advance research, dialogue, networking, and action involving the sustainable use of phosphorus to improve food security, environmental integrity, and farmer livelihoods. The SPS participants are new and well-seasoned researchers, entrepreneurs, and stakeholders including government bodies, NGOs and industry who seek to learn and share phosphorus sustainability knowledge while lifting the voices of those who will bring innovations to reality. SPS is the only global conference on phosphorus sustainability. Since its inception in 2010, the SPS series has been held every 2-4 years on all continents – except Africa. To date, hundreds of participants from around the world have joined seven SPS events including 2010 Linköping, Sweden, 2011 Tempe, USA; 2011 Sydney, Australia; 2014 Montpellier, France; 2016 Kunming, China; 2018 Brasilia, Brazil; 2022 Raleigh-Durham, USA. Following SPS 2022, the delegates stressed the obvious new opportunity to take the meeting to Africa, where the need is greatest for food security for this continent, and the World.

Main outputs/activities:

• Hold meetings between UKCEH, LU and Rothamsted Research to Convene the Local Organising Committee and to prepare a Delivery Plan including key milestones, a Communication Plan (including SPS web site and draft content), and an Inclusivity Plan for SPS 2025 to align with UKCEH, LU, and Rothamsted Research corporate policies
• Hold a local networking event hosted by the Local Organising Committee chaired by LU and UKCEH Ghana Office
• International Scientific Committee to host an online workshop to convene about 10 African Phosphorus Champions and produce plan for SPS 2025 capacity development activities  
• Local Organising Committee to arrange and facilitate event planning and logistics in Ghana
• Facilitate the SPS 2025 event with up to 100 international delegates, and launch the ASPN with a call for membership to the wider community
• Publish SPS 2025 summary and synthesis materials on web site
• Prepare a draft paper for peer reviewed publication with ASPN co-authors

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has established the ‘UNEP Working Group on Nitrogen’ as a new member-state-led process. Prof. Sutton has now been invited by the WGN co-chairs to establish a Science Task Force to the working group - this is a key opportunity activity that allows UKCEH to champion the next steps and to establish a secretariat to the task force.  

Main outputs/activities:

• Engagement with WGN co-chairs and NFPs leading to co-design and drafting of the Work Plan of the Science Task Force.
• Establish the Secretariat for the Science Task Force based at UKCEH including documentation of agreed procedures, drawing on agreed Terms of Reference with the co-chairs of the WGN.
• Establish web presence, and engagement with Science Task Force expert members, including expert profiles to be made available to National Focal Points of the WGN.
• Develop and agree dissemination strategy for existing scientific products including on International Nitrogen Assessment and INMS Guidance Documents. 
• Implement dissemination strategy for existing and emerging scientific products by the STF, including through on-line/hybrid/in-person activities. 
• Based on existing request from WGN co-chairs, establish a group of experts to support WGN National Focal Points in developing national Sustainable Nitrogen Action Plans (SNAPs). 
• Mobilize new ‘Small Scale Funding Agreements’ (SSFAs), from UNEP to experts to support countries in establishing first SNAPs.
• Build the case for mobilizing major future investment from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support the Science Task Force (STF) according to emerging priorities agreed with UNEP.

The Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM) was established in 2009 as the leading multi-actor partnership for reducing nutrient pollution, having its secretariat with the United Nations Environment Programme. Under the leadership of Mark Sutton at UKCEH, this group has been substantially strengthened since 2019 by the adoption two resolutions on Sustainable Nitrogen Management at the UN Environment Assembly, which now provides an emerging process of member state engagement. This group is now stimulating substantially increased interest and action in GPNM. 

The engagement provides a platform for UKCEH to provide international leadership in better nitrogen and phosphorus management, with a strong emphasis on mobilizing science opportunities for mitigation measures and seeing uptake by UN member states globally. Mitigation of nutrient pollution, including nitrogen and phosphorus offers many, cobenefits between climate mitigation and adaptation, air quality, water quality, biodiversity, human health and economy. By leading this activity, UKCEH helps set the global agenda for action and also inform future research funding priorities.   

Main outputs/activities:

• New GPNM Steering Committee Membership consolidated with 12 new members and past terms completed.  
• Presentation of the International Nitrogen Assessment to GPNM Membership with report on bridge building and new connections for UKCEH with business and civil society through GPNM
• A revised draft Resolution on Sustainable Nitrogen Management agreed with Government of Pakistan and shared with lead partner countries
• GPNM Phosphorus Task Team established with Terms of Reference and Members
• Outcome summary of mobilization through GPNM including progress on possible new themes (inc. ‘agroecology theme’).

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF) sets an ambitious goal of healthy and resilient wildlife populations that deliver multiple benefits to humanity. To deliver this long-term goal, the KMGBF defined a set of ambitious targets for reducing the pressures on biodiversity by 2030. However, there are two critical unanswered questions arising from this framework. First, are the actions encoded within the KMGBF targets sufficient to deliver the long-term goal? Second, what are the potential trade-offs and interactions between action for biodiversity with action for climate change mitigation and adaptation?  

One way to address both questions is to build predictive models for biodiversity. UKCEH has recently built-up substantial expertise in this area through the SPEED project (on which Nick Isaac was the biodiversity lead) and two existing projects on which Isaac is PI: the Global Insect Threat Response Synthesis (GLiTRS) and the UK Biodiversity Pathways project.  

UKCEH is therefore well-placed to play a leading role in this important and emerging area, both nationally and internationally. Toward this end, we have begun to engage with three national and international networks that are pushing the agenda on biodiversity modelling and conservation: 

1. The Consortium & Sustainability Consortium of Academic Institutions (CASCADE) is a knowledge exchange network for UK institutions to support ODA countries deliver their obligations to the KMGBF and find solutions for both the climate and biodiversity crises.  

2. The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) is an international network of scientists working on biodiversity monitoring and indicators. Recently, a new GEO BON working group on biodiversity modelling was initiated (Nick Isaac is a founding member). The twin goals of this “E-Code” working group are a) development of a global Biodiversity Model Inter-comparison Project (BMIP), and b) to influence the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in the lead up to 2030. 

3. The Ecological Forecasting Initiative (EFI) is an international network of researchers developing tools and protocols for predictive models for biodiversity. 

All three of these networks are vehicles by which UKCEH can contribute toward the achievement of the goals of NC International and the KMGBF. 

Main outputs/activities:

•  Contribute to GEO BON science brief
•  Write policy article on the Biodiversity Action Gap
•  Analyse data for the first BMIP paper
•  Attend GEO BON conference
• Attend CASCADE annual meeting
• Engage with GEO BON work program
• Engage with Ecological Forecasting Initiative work program

Action towards NetZero targets and/or climate change mitigation and adaptation will have knock-on consequences for biodiversity. Biodiversity rich areas within low and middle income countries are often deficient in monitoring data; this includes spatial, temporal and taxonomic data. With the mobilization of world finance towards nature-positive outcomes for both Carbon and biodiversity there is a potential mechanism to address these data deficiencies and build sustainable green economies. However there needs to be a viable and repeatable way of monitoring those outcomes by first establishing a baseline.  

From previous work commissioned by Defra and investigated through stakeholder engagement McCracken et al (2024) identified barriers and opportunities of using tools and technologies to monitor biodiversity from genetic diversity to ecosystem function in low and middle-income countries. Development of such tools and data would contribute to the wider understanding of processes and mechanisms for ecosystem resilience and strengthen understanding of connections between Carbon and biodiversity. One of the key recommendations of this stakeholder work was to build partnerships and multi-scale collaborations to overcome barriers. 

This activity aims to develop and build partnerships, with additional engagement activities for specific key partners in the region and to explore the current status of biodiversity monitoring in Ghana. The workshop will host delegates from UNESCO, Development Bank Ghana (DBG), Ghana Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and Forestry Commission. The workshops’ main purpose will be to identify gaps and opportunities within Ghana biodiversity monitoring that could be explored and taken forward, identifying further opportunities for research, green financing and building capacity in this region. 

Main outputs/activities:

• Host 2 day in-person stakeholder engagement workshop in UKCEH offices in Ghana for about 30-50 key partners interested in biodiversity monitoring During week February 24th 2025
• Facilitate and coordinate meeting to enable partnership development and strengthen networks in communal understanding around biodiversity monitoring. Achieved through small breakout rooms; inclusive discussion groups, comfortable atmosphere and collaborative and cohesive participatory approaches, potential optional field trip.
• Produce a universal template of how to produce a biodiversity monitoring baseline in low and middle income country and how biodiversity monitoring can be funded appropriately and successfully through finance initiatives.
• UKCEH host an engagement meeting with National Biodiversity Committee of Ghana (part of Ministry of Environment) outside of Workshop to gain strategic oversight

This activity will foster UK leadership in One Health Systems approaches to understanding and mitigating environmentally-driven priority tick-borne disease (TBD) risks in Africa, at a time of rapid changes in land use and land use policy, capitalizing on UKCEH’s pioneering interdisciplinary frameworks developed through the GCRF IndiaZooRisk (India) and UKRI TickSolve and OPTICK (UK) projects.

Through this work, we are providing UK leadership and capacity building for application of the One Health Systems approach to TBD challenges in African contexts in partnership with an established African network, AFRIVIRUS (partners spanning South Africa, Tunisia, Zambia) and the UK Health Security Agency. Additionally, we are underpinning participatory methods protocols and training, rapid assessment of the policy landscape for TBDs, One Health and NetZero, ecological evidence synthesis and epidemiological modelling and co-created surveillance strategies, to inform interventions for tick-borne diseases under land use transitions in Africa.

Main outputs/activities:

• Assessment of cross-sectoral policies and actors affecting tick-borne disease risks, related land use transitions and context of One Health operationalisation.

• Co-develop participatory methods protocols for assessment of socio-economic vulnerability to CCHF and other tick-borne diseases.

• Identify the main wildlife hosts and tick vectors of CCHF in Africa, understand the ecological and land use factors influencing transmission, and assess these through evidence review and R0-based modelling to inform NetZero+ policies.

• Workshop and report on integrated surveillance methods to track ecological and social drivers of TBD risks in Africa’s rapidly changing environments.

Within the GCRF-SANH project, a South Asian network for wet and dry atmospheric deposition was successfully established, and partners in the region received training in sample exposure techniques. To address the limited analytical capacity across institutions, seven Ammonia Flow Injection Analysis (AMFIA) systems were developed at UKCEH and distributed to partners to increase their capability to study reactive nitrogen deposition independently. While initial training was provided early in the project, the delivery of the instruments occurred toward the project’s conclusion, limiting the opportunity to provide training within the project timeframe.

This activity will create an AMFIA working group with regular meetings involving institutes in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka. This will provide further training and support to consolidate their familiarity with the analysis techniques and protocols, and will also improve the partners' confidence in using the equipment and their capability to tackle reactive nitrogen measurements.

This activity will enhance UKCEH’s international collaboration with South Asian partners, with the AMFIA working group supporting other initiatives such as the UNEP PPG Maldives project and a PhD study on nitrogen deposition in Nepal. Data from the AMFIA network will also contribute to model validation efforts, including EMEP4UK and other atmospheric deposition models.

Main outputs/activities:

• Main outputs/activities:

• Producing material for AMFIA training and for working group discussion.
• Engaging in informative training meetings with South Asian institutes.

missions inventories are a key component of understanding pollution sources, strengths and locations. They are used for mitigation strategies, air quality and climate modelling and policy development. South Asia is a global hotspot of ammonia pollution – and subsequent environmental and human impacts, but international efforts to quantify these emissions are still highly uncertain and not particularly well spatially resolved due to a lack of data, lack of coordination and cooperation, and other difficulties. A further issue is a lack of agency within South Asian countries amongst stakeholders who may feel isolated by a lack of coordinating activities or find it hard to influence or direct these uncertain pollution estimations that are often compiled by academics from other parts of the globe.

This activity seeks to undertake networking, stakeholder engagement and gap analysis to coordinate attempts to bring together stakeholders and experts from South Asia, international inventory compilers and international experts on emissions, with the purpose of identifying ways forward and solutions to this issue. UKCEH will sit at the front of these efforts to engage people from a variety of international institutes to create a pathway that would enable South Asian stakeholders to have a direct impact on the estimations of ammonia pollution in their own region, using indigenous knowledge and, also, interpreting current engagement pathways into international inventories in place (if any). Integration of localised stakeholders into pollution quantification via coordinated efforts such as these provides a better understanding of the sources of emissions, a better infrastructure for informed decision making, pollution mitigation, policy development, and improved modelling exercises for air quality and policy impacts on air quality in that region of the world.

Main outputs/activities:

• Main outputs/activities:

• Establish relationship and common ideals with focused contacts in the region. 

• Identify gaps in knowledge for ammonia pollution in South Asia and identify the institutes/experts best placed to address it.

• Coordinate an international working group/network that can address large uncertainties around ammonia emissions in South Asia.

• Develop a roadmap of improvements for estimates of ammonia emissions in South Asia and establish links to existing international bodies to integrate knowledge into them.

FABLE stands for Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land Use and Energy. It consits of 24 country teams who work together with the FABLE secretariat (hosted by IIASA and the UN SDSN) to develop pathways to suistanable food and land use systems at linked national to globally scales.

This initiative seeks to investigate specific global environmental challenges or outcomes which will have a positive impact on a global public good and/or deliver research excellence.  The global FABLE consortium meetings involve shared learnings and knowledge exchange on the common challenges associated with sustainable land use and food systems, working together to improve the calculator / methods across the global network to build and model realistic, policy relevant, pathways.

Main outputs/activities:

• Participate in the international FABLE meeting in Istanbul, contributing to sessions, liaising with international colleagues on similar research and challenges, and planning for future activities within the consortium.

• Collaborate on improving the modelling of the FABLE consortium, through sharing the unique approaches to the UK model, and learning about other approaches that could benefit our work. 

This initiative supports UKCEH’s participation in the final negotiation session (INC-5.2) of the United Nations Global Plastics Treaty, aimed at establishing a legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution.

As a global leader in plastics research, UKCEH will contribute scientific expertise to influence key decisions—such as limits on plastic production, full lifecycle considerations, and chemical regulation.

Main outputs/activities:

• Attend INC-5.2 and ensure UKCEH's science and expertise is heard via interbventions.

• Communicate UKCEH’s involvement both prior to and following the event, internally and externally, to showcase the organiosation's science and global leadership.

This work builds on ongoing International science for Net Zero Plus activities in Kenya and is part of a broader trajectory of international engagement in soil science. David Robinson has previously held a NERC knowledge exchange fellowship, which helped establish strong connections with the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the World Soil Information Centre in Wageningen (ISRIC). As their international profile has grown, they’ve been invited to participate in EU project proposals on behalf of UKCEH.

In December 2023, ISRIC initiated discussions about involving UKCEH in new soil-related work in Africa, linking to efforts by NC International already underway in Kenya. The current funding will help support UKCEH’s role in developing and leading international projects, while also laying the groundwork for impactful future outputs.

Main outputs/activities:

• Contribute to a Publication with international partners to evolve an indicator framework underpinning global soil health indicators.

• Meetings to develop an international consortium with International Soil Information Centre to develop a proposal to enhance NC international projects in Africa. 

• Development of new international research on soil erosion and degradation.

• Attendance at EU SOLO international soil think tank.

Diana Bowler has been invited to be Lead Author of the IPBES Monitoring Assessment. IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) assessments provide scientific evaluations of biodiversity, its impacts on human well-being, and the effectiveness of conservation efforts, ultimately informing policy and action.

They will bring her knowledge to Chapter 2, which will assess what is needed in terms of data, indicators and models to inform the implementation of the actions required by the goals and targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, including the headline indicators and, methodological challenges, including the aggregation of national data into global indicators, and the disaggregation of global indicators. 

Main outputs/activities:

• Maintain and enhance UKCEH contributions to IPBES.

• Develop an international network in biodiversity monitoring and raise the profile of UKCEH within.

• Contribute expertise in realizing the Kumming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

This initiative seeks the development of an international database on soil bioturbation, validated by a working group of international experts. This would provide the first step toward synthesising global data, a basis to enhance efforts in modelling carbon-cycling processes and a platform to deliver world-leading science.

Main outputs/activities:

• Scope and finalise structure for international database on terrestrial bioturbation.

• Engage international initiatives to strengthen leadership, disseminate activities and grow collaboration. 

• Develop outline plan to resource follow-on activities.

Angus Garbutt is lead scientist for the UN 2030 Saltmarsh Breakthrough and will coordinate and bring together world leading science on the current and potential future restoration potential of the saltmarshes globally  – one of the world’s most important blue carbon sinks. The first phase of the process is to produce a State of the Worlds Saltmarshes report which will use the latest world-leading science to evidence the current extent of saltmarshes globally and the goods and benefits they provide. UKCEH will lead on and building collaborations and initiatives across International research communities to achieve this by convening the international science community, policy makers and finance institutes with support from the UN as part of the Breakthrough development.

Main outputs/activities:

• Coordination and delivery of the State of the World Saltmarsh report.

• Convene the international science community to quantify global restoration targets.

Maintaining UKCEH’s long-established engagement with the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO). Through this high-level involvement in what is one of the key multinational programmes for weather, climate, and hydrology, we influence the future strategic direction of WMO water initiatives and support their governance. This, in turn, facilitates opportunities for UK scientists to engage in coordinated scientific initiatives/programmes/events and publications, maximising the impact of UK science and research investments – including those related to hydrometeorological adaptation and water-related net-zero trade-offs. 

Main outputs/activities:

• To maintain and enhance UK contributions to the WMO and support wider UK engagement with the programme by meeting and working with the UK Hydrological Adviser and Met Office WMO Manager/International Team, and engaging with other key stakeholders

The aim of the activity is to work alongside the scientists at WHO’s Asia-Pacific Centre for Environment and Health in the Western Pacific Region to investigate the impacts of biomass burning in the present and future climate on air quality in the Southeast Asia region, and consequently quantify its impact on regional population health. It is expected the visit will take place over three months and will facilitate knowledge exchange between UKCEH (air quality modelling) and WHO (health impact assessments); strengthening our developing collaboration with WHO’s Asia-Pacific Centre. 

Main outputs/activities:

• Health impact assessment of air quality in Southeast Asia in present and future climate and publication of the findings in a scientific journal.