Episode 8 – Air Quality
In the eighth episode, three experts explain, over 45 minutes, what air quality is, how it fits into the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which industries are the most polluting and also what role the electrification of the economy plays in terms of air quality.
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Catarina Barreiros
Founder & CEO of Do Zero
Catarina Barreiros
Founder & CEO of Do Zero
Graduated with a major in Architecture and with a master's degree in Management, she was a fashion stylist and worked in Digital Marketing, in a luxury product company, and in a pharmaceutical company. The documentary Cowspiracy and a conference on Zero Waste generated the first concerns with sustainability. She created the blog Do Zero and today seeks to live with the minimal ecological footprint possible.
Francisco Ferreira
President of ZERO – Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável
Francisco Ferreira
President of ZERO – Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável
With a degree in Environmental Engineering from FCT-NOVA, where he is currently a professor, Francisco Ferreira is a researcher at CENSE and his work focuses on air quality, climate change, and sustainable development. He was vice the president and president of Quercus, as well as a member of the National Council for Water and the National Council for the Environment and Sustainable Development. He is currently President of ZERO – Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável (Association for a Sustainable Terrestrial System).
Ana Paula Mesquita
EDP Produção's Sustainability Department
Ana Paula Mesquita
EDP Produção's Sustainability Department
She has a degree in Environmental Engineering from Aveiro University, where she later earned a Master's Degree in Atmospheric Pollution. She has worked with the Regional Directorate for the Environment, the Portuguese Environment Agency, and the General Environment Supervisor. She has been working with EDP Produção's Sustainability Department since the year 2000.
The energy transition to renewable energies is our backbone and is essential for improving air quality and protecting human health.
It was during the pandemic that the Palrão family's life changed. Suddenly, greater Lisbon began to seem small and suffocating. With careers in the capital and two children, they decided to live in the countryside and have no regrets! Catarina and Pedro moved to Casével, in the Santarém area, and the concrete forest gave way to a real forest, where the little ones grow up more freely and closer to nature. And where they breathe better. A change of life, in search of better air quality.
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