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Oxfordshire is home to around 666,000 people, an increase of over 10% in the past decade. The county is divided into five district council areas, with a quarter of the county’s residents living in Oxford city. It is home to nearly 30,000 businesses, providing over 380,000 jobs. It sits on the busy road and rail transport corridor between the south coast ports, the Midlands and the north and enjoys easy links to London and West Midlands. The county is the second more rural area at the UK’s South East, with a combination of urban (both historic and modern), peri-urban, highways and rural locations.

Apertum is a start-up environment & data consultancy. We help our clients to engage with, understand & share information on the state of the environment. Our core areas of expertise are in air quality, with over 20-years’ expertise in the broad themes of measurements, modelling, emissions inventories, data analysis, policy & community projects. Air quality sensors are a growth area for us, particularly as they have become more accessible from a price point. As an organisation we offer support & advice on the full air quality sensing life-cycle from selection to deployment, data acquisition to storage & data analysis. We are open data advocates – being transparent about what you do & how you do it, whether its a dashboard or a machine learning algorithm, we feel, helps everyone in the long run.

Ricardo is a global sustainability consultancy. We help our clients solve some of the world’s most complex environmental challenges and provide governments, public agencies and businesses with leading analysis, advice and data. We help our clients with their policy, investment and operational decisions and with their practical implementation, adding value by enabling them to maximise their impact, reduce cost and minimise risk.