Awareness Raising towards clean biomass burning

D - communication portfolio

Several Ideas have been identified: 1) Awareness campaign incl. classical communication instruments 2) Individual consulting offers by shimney sweepers 3) Individual consulting via a chatbot and an app 4) Local community information (evening sessions) activities by the local administrations 5) “chimney evenings” in private households (like Tupperware parties)

I - Dissemination of correct information

A strong improvement comes by the dissemination of correct information and practices, creating a basis to choose correctly whether and how to warm up with wood. Always in a long-term period, a turning point may come from the correct training of young people, citizens and wood users in the future, on these issues. Research and specialist conferences are not enough or not well biased if the knowledge is not transferred at least in its rudiments to future potential users of biomass appliances.

F - Develop and improve communication on the adapted use of wood heating

F- Measurement Campaigns

As with the increasingly well-known physico-chemistry, social scientists are now able to conduct intensive “measurement” campaigns and gather data to understand the drivers of the brakes to change. The air quality data are available, and they are extremely rich. We must now work on their dissemination and understanding. The means must be put into the use of the social sciences to get the messages across.

F - Pollution Alerts - better communication - door-to-door controls

Better communication on the regulations and the deleterious effects of wood heating that lead to this ban. For example, early season communication and advisories during pollution episodes. Warn the inhabitants when pollution alerts using all possible communication tools: emails, SMS, radio, TV, press... Check that the prohibition is respected by door-to-door controls, verbalize when the operation is found (visible smoke or use of a thermal camera) and mediate the controls. ... more

F - Public authorities need more awareness

Communication needs to be developed. The public authorities should be more aware of the importance of this communication when it is not expensive. It is necessary to diversify the discourses and to have a common approach to the different actors who intervene on the subject (Public authorities/ State/ Associations/ citizens' collectives/ Professionals, etc.)