ClairCity newsletter July 2019 | Page 7

Meet the team We share profiles of collaborators from our fifteen consortium partner organisations What do you hope for the future of your city? I want Bristol to develop into a city designed around people rather than cars. I hope we have a city where public transport, walking and cycling are the cheapest and most convenient default transport options for everyone in the city and surrounding region. Andrew Edwards Air Quality Project Manager, Bristol City Council, UK Sabina Popit Senior Consultant, Municipality of Ljubljana, Slovenia What is your role in ClairCity? Where do you live? I’m one of the links for ClairCity at Bristol City Council. My role is providing information and access to people within the council and to help shape and maximise the impact of the ClairCity outcomes at a local level. I live in Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia. What interests you in the project? The innovative approach to engaging with citizens and policy makers. I’m interested in attributing pollution to daily activities that people can relate to rather than technology. 7 What is your role in ClairCity? I am part of the Ljubljana municipal authority team, sharing information about our city with the ClairCity modellers, implementing engagement activities like the surveys with citizens in Ljubljana. My role is also to identify synergies between different projects and activities that we undertake, so that we can maximise the benefit from each project and get the most out of collaborating on projects. What do you hope for the future of your city? Ljubljana is a forward-thinking and beautiful city. We are working at the moment on neighbourhood provision, especially of sports facilities so that everyone can access fitness and health - without generating pollution or emissions. We are also working hard on re-foresting our urban area. Trees can provide so many benefits to the local environment as well as the global climate, and this will be an important improvement for our city that will have benefits for years to come.