On Air with Zephyr

In this Special Edition, the team at Zephyr discuss the NSW EPA's updated draft 'Approved Methods for the Modelling and Assessment of Air Pollutants in NSW', the key changes to the documentation and what these mean to you.

To wrap up Season 2 of On Air with Zephyr, Russ Francis and Damon Roddis spoke with Bruce Anderson of Starcrest Consulting Group about shipping and more specifically the IMO Net-Zero Framework.

In this month's podcast we spoke with Marc Stammbach from Kanadevia Inova about waste to energy, how to get the community on-side and the role waste to energy can play in helping Australia reach its greenhouse gas emissions targets.

In this Special Edition, the team at Zephyr discusses the EPA's "NSW Guide for Large Emitters". This new guidance document aims to support proponents to consider GHG mitigation measures associated with new and modified projects, within the NSW planning process. In this episode we discuss who the guide applies to and how to use it.

Australia's healthcare sector is one of the largest emitters per capita, with an estimated 35.8 million tonnes of CO2-e emissions annually which equates to 7% of Australia's total emissions. Dr Penny Hodges, an anaesthetist at Royal North Shore and North Shore Private Hospitals NSW, and a NetZero Co Lead for anaesthesia in the NSLHD joined us on the pod to talk about net zero emissions from Healthcare and Anaesthesia.

2023 marked 30 years since the release of the iconic Harvard Six Cities Study. In this study a well-characterised cohort of adults were followed from 1974 through to 1991 from six communities across the US from which researchers estimated the effects of air pollution on mortality. For this month's episode, the team at Zephyr Environmental sat down with Dr Douglas Dockery from Harvard to reflect on this study and to talk about his new book - Particles of Truth.

The final episode of the series, we talk all things Antarctica with Ruby, Marc and Elizabeth. We hope you enjoyed the series, thanks for listening.

Francine and Jeff returned to the pod booth to talk with Russ about second careers, being on the committee together and anything else that was on their mind!

Sophie and Alida joined Russ to talk about CASANZ's Emerging Air Quality Professional (EAQP) and climate change special interest group (SIG) and how to join these.

DING DING - let's get ready to rumble for the State of Origin Branch Presidents! Russ sat down with Dave, Craig and Ruth to debate which state is best, their presidential style, and their greatest achievements with nothing held back!

What's it like to run an independent air quality consultancy? And why make the move? Damon, Gary and Martin (all directors and co-founders of independent air quality consultancies) sat down with Russ to talk about those things along with CASANZ conference memories.

Lidia Morawska stepped into the pod booth to talk with me about her career, indoor air quality and what brought her to the conference.

So who is the grumpiest old man of odour? Listen in and you'll find out. We delved into the history of odour measurements and assessments with four of the stalwarts of odour research and consulting.

Following her fantastic keynote address, Dr Carolyn Orr sat down with us to talk about her brilliant presenting style, her TEDx talk, activism and how her career has grown to where she is now.

Keynote speaker Cameron McNaughton entered the pod booth to talk about his time in Hawaii, his keynote address and his previous nuclear talks.

Keynote speaker Matt Riley joined us to discuss his day job, NARCliM 2.0, his role on the CASANZ committee and a sneak peak of his keynote address.

The hosts with the most! Jeff Bluett and Gerda Kuschel, the wonderful Clean Air Conference hosts joined us to talk about favourite conferences, working together and CASANZ has got talent.

There are many incredible people that go into organising and bringing together a fantastic CASANZ conference. Two of these wonderful people are Vicki Callaway and Janelle Wildish, who joined us for an episode to discuss how they bring these events together and some of their favourite memories.

First podcast and we've gone to the very top! Francine Manansala, the Society President of the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ) spoke to us about how she began her career in air quality and climate change, how she became the society president and all things CASANZ.

Welcome to the Clean Air Conference podcast. This podcast series comes to you LIVE from the 27th International Clean Air and Environment Conference, organized by the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand (CASANZ). In this series we talk to keynote speakers, society presidents and state presidents, and all the people that bring this conference together! Enjoy.

On the podcast this month we decided to seas the day and head out onto the open water and talk about shipping and in particular the decarbonisation of ports and the shipping sector. But will it all be smooth sailing? Ryan Bennett, Senior Manager of Planning and Sustainability at the Port Authority of New South Wales joined the Zephyr Team to talk about decarbonisation and net zero targets.

This month's guest was Seamus Collins, Chief Investment Officer for an Industry Super Fund, who spoke to us about finance and the role it plays in carbon markets and tackling climate change.

Agriculture contributes a significant amount to world-wide emissions and agriculture directly contributes to 14% of Australia's greenhouse gas emissions. A particular pollutant of concern within agriculture is methane. For this month's episode, we were joined by Richard Heath, the CEO of Zero Net Emissions Agriculture CRC (Cooperative Research Centres) to talk to us about emissions from agriculture and how to achieve net zero emissions from agriculture.

This month we were joined by Dr Mark Lunt from the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to talk all about MethaneSAT.

This month's episode delved into communicating climate action with the University College London Climate Action Unit. We talk about actions, beliefs, the brain insights of climate action and moving past fear.

The hiatus is over and we're back for Season 2! In this episode we talk to Ed Mason at Jet Zero Australia about Sustainable Aviation Fuel.

We are BACK for Season 2 for more conversations with leading experts in emissions, air quality and climate change. New episodes are back from next week!

COP28 was held in the UAE in November and December 2023. Professor Ben Newell returned to give us an exclusive run-down of what happened at COP28.

The Conference of the Parties (or COP) are yearly conferences held in the framework of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. These serve as the formal meeting of the UNFCCC parties to assess progress in dealing with climate change. COP28 will convene in the United Arab Emirates in November and December of this year. The conference serves as a possible (and crucial) chance to bring the world together to tackle the climate crisis.

Indigenous cultures and traditions are built upon sharing natural resources. Australia’s First Nations peoples have cared for Country for sixty-five thousand years with both innovative and traditional land management practices and play a crucial role in the ecosystems we all inhabit. The impact of climate change can endanger the survival of indigenous communities both in Australia and worldwide. Indigenous people are and will be uniquely impacted by climate change and with unrivalled knowledge of the land, this must be included in the challenge of combatting climate change.

The idea of nuclear power in Australia has been hotly debated for decades. Today we’re going to talk about whether the new breed of nuclear power plants are part of the solution to the climate crisis and how air quality links into the nuclear energy discussion.

Methane is a greenhouse gas emitted from coal mines, oil and gas wells, landfills, wetlands and the agriculture sector. Methane emissions are the second largest contributor to climate change and it is more potent in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide (CO2). This means there are potential “quick wins” in targeting methane reductions early in the decarbonisation process. Satellite data of total-column methane concentration is being used to estimate methane emissions on a global scale. Recent media headlines suggest that methane emissions from the oil & gas and coal mining sectors could be underestimated. Our pod today is going to explore satellites, methane measurement methods and the future of methane emissions.

December 2022 marked 70 years since the Great Smog of London which claimed 12,000 lives. This event lead to a significant change in air quality management and control and the emergence of the Clean Air Act of 1956. This month's guest, Dr Gary Fuller, talks about the Great Smog of 1952, amongst other things in his book 'The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution- and How We Can Fight Back'. This podcast revisits the Great Smog of London and the air quality progress that we've made since.

We are all aware that global emissions will need to be reduced to limit global warming below 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. Another part of the ‘climate change arsenal’ involves the capture and/or extraction of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. And that’s where this month’s podcast takes us – to direct air capture.

From late 2020 to the middle of 2022, the world experienced a triple La Nina which brought a record amount of rainfall to south-east Australia. The latest reports suggest that we could now be heading for not only an El Nino but a super El Nino. So what is this? And is this likely to happen? In this episode we talk to associate professor Dr Andrea Taschetto about all things La Nina and El Nino and whether a super El Nino may happen.

We are all aware of the impact that climate change is having across the world. The facts are there to see. Sometimes we can get lost in the 'doom and gloom' of these statistics and we spend less time and attention on how the world could effectively tackle the climate crisis. And that's where science comes in. In this episode we talk to climate scientist Dr Helen Cleugh about how science can save the planet.