Dirty air: the silent killer

What does a bowl of Kellogg’s cornflakes have to do with deadly air quality in Borneo? How is Avon lipstick linked with the disappearance of the Sumatran tiger? And how is a Ginster’s pasty associated with the ‘haze’ that blights Kuala Lumpur and Singapore?
Thomas will discuss the recent wildfire driven haze crisis in Southeast Asia; an environmental disaster that receives little attention from the Western Press, and some of his personal experiences tracking down fires on the Malay peninsula during the fire outbreak of 2015.

London’s air quality often makes the headlines of the Evening Standard, but how bad is it really? Who are the main culprits, and what can we do about it? And is it really true that London’s air pollution makes your bogeys turn black? Leading air quality experts, David Green and Ben Barratt, have spent much of the last 20 years downwind of some of London’s worst emissions sources to bring you the answer to these questions and more!