{"id":61378,"date":"2019-03-28T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/richard-lofthouse-only-10-of-vehicles-comply-with-the-european-regulations-on-nitrogen-dioxide-emissions\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:38:35","slug":"richard-lofthouse-only-10-of-vehicles-comply-with-the-european-regulations-on-nitrogen-dioxide-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/richard-lofthouse-only-10-of-vehicles-comply-with-the-european-regulations-on-nitrogen-dioxide-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Lofthouse: \u201cOnly 10% of vehicles comply with the European regulations on nitrogen dioxide emissions.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>\u201cThe local authorities need a \u2018contamination measure\u2019 that is better than the current EURO 6+ regulation.\u201d That was the resounding opinion given by <b>Richard Lofthouse, senior researcher for Emissions Analytics<\/b>, a British company specialising in testing and analysing data from portable systems of measuring emissions, in Madrid today. Lofthouse made these claims at a seminar on \u2018Etiquetaje ambiental de veh\u00edculos y gesti\u00f3n de la contaminaci\u00f3n urbana\u2019 (Environmental labelling of vehicles and management of urban pollution), which was organised by the Naturgy Foundation in their Madrid office this morning. It took place just weeks after the sanctioning period of the low emissions area in Central Madrid was implemented.<\/p>\n<p>Lofthouse explained the AIR Index, a new index that helps both the government and the citizens better understand vehicle emissions. It is a simple classification using colour coding that shows the difference between clean and dirty vehicles, created by testing vehicles on the road.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many vehicles comply with the Euro6 regulation on nitrogen dioxide (NO<sub>2<\/sub>)?\u201d asked Lofthouse. \u201cVery few, about 10%. The other vehicles exceed it by a lot,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The AIR Index is based on \u201cthe CEN CWA17379 regulation, published in January this year, which is a voluntary European standard procedure created in the framework of the European Committee for Standardization.\u201d The organisation behind this regulation is the not-for-profit alliance Allow AIR (Allow Independent Road Testing).<\/p>\n<p><b>Andr\u00e9s Alastuey<\/b>, <b>professor and researcher at CSIC<\/b>, agreed with Lofthouse that the Euro6 regulation has had a positive impact on reducing contaminating particles, \u201cbut it has not reduced nitrogen dioxide emissions in the same way\u201d, which is one of the main contaminants at local level together with the particles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prensa.naturgy.com\/richard-lofthouse-solo-el-10-de-los-vehiculos-cumple-la-normativa-europea-de-emisiones-en-dioxido-de-nitrogeno\/\">See the press room<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after being implemented in Central Madrid, today, the capital holds a new Naturgy Foundation seminar where experts in the institutional, university and business fields gather to highlight that air quality and control of emissions remain key factors in the design of urban mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":60828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[700],"tags":[],"content-type":[],"acf":[],"post_class":["post-61378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy-and-the-environment","wordpress-sticky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61378"},{"taxonomy":"content-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-type?post=61378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}