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About this web site
Public information on environmental issues is of increasing importance and also an obligation under the EU Framework Directive on air quality as well as under the Aarhus Convention. Common Information to European Air (CITEAIR) is a project co-funded by the European Union's INTERREG IIIC and IVC Programme. The project started in March 2004. It supports cities and regions in developing efficient means to collect, present and compare air quality data across a multitude of sites and provides furthermore an input to the air quality reporting and action planning. Thus, CITEAIR supports European cities and regions in their efforts to meet limit values and improve the air quality for their citizens.
CITEAIR collaborates with non-project cities and other stakeholders including the European Commission (DG Environment) and the European Environment Agency (EEA).
The major work carried out by CITEAIR's Partners concerns public information through easily
understandable and comparable air quality information across European cities.
This has been undertaken through two main developments:
The first Air Quality indices on the European level based on a cities initiative
www.airqualitynow.eu: an interactive webservice to display and compare
air quality across cities.
The common indices (hourly, daily and annual) developed by the cities of CITEAIR are implemented on an interactive web service accessible under www.airqualitynow.eu. It provides an attractive platform to compare near-real time air quality in different cities in an easy understandable way. The website does not aim to replace local websites but to complement them in providing a common place and a common way of presenting air quality. Meanwhile about 60 Cities and Regions link their real-time environmental data to www.airqualitynow.eu. Through this approach environmental data will be easily comparable across different sites in Europe.
To take part in www.airqualitynow.eu just send a mail to join@airqualitynow.eu
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