How can we solve the public health crisis posed by air pollution, and what’s its link to climate policy? Join the Oxford Climate Society to explore these and other questions with Jenny Bates (Air Pollution Campaigner at Friends of the Earth UK) and Mai Jarvis (Environmental Quality Team Manager at the Oxford City Council).

Speaker Bios:

Jenny Bates joined Friends of the Earth on staff in 2003 after co-ordinating the voluntary Greenwich Friends of the Earth local group. Jenny was the organisation’s London Campaigner until 2016, working on air pollution in the capital. From 2011, she also worked on the issue nationally after signing Friends of the Earth up as a founding partner of the Healthy Air Campaign. Having got the organisation to launch a major campaign on air pollution 5 years later, she is now an Air Pollution Campaigner.

Mai Jarvis is Environmental Quality Team Manager at Oxford City Council managing the team’s work on air quality, land quality, flood protection and biodiversity. Her work on air quality has included the introduction of Oxford’s Low Emission Zone and she now project manages plans to introduce a Zero Emission Zone in Oxford. She previously worked at Buckinghamshire County Council leading projects on sustainable energy generation and ecology. Mai holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Biodiversity Conservation and a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Copenhagen University.