London's Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy Shirley Rodrigues outlines how the capital is delivering on climate and clean air and, with COP26 only two months away, why we need to put pressure on world leaders to deliver ambitious climate action.
Cllr Sarah Warren, Joint Cabinet Member for Climate Emergency and Neighbourhood Services at Bath and North East Somerset Council, lays out why Bath has launched its new Clean Air Zone.
A group of a dozen mayors, business leaders and NGOs have joined forces to urge the Prime Minister to commit to tougher air pollution targets following the inquest into the death of Ella Kissi-Debrah.
Six inspiring speakers, from an MP to a leading air pollution campaigner, came together on 20 January to address what needs to change in the fight against air pollution, which, like Covid-19 disproportionately affects communities of colour.
For Clean Air Day 2020 Oxford City Council’s Deputy Leader and Green Transport and Zero Carbon Oxford Cabinet Member, Cllr Tom Hayes, talks about how the city is ‘taking matters into its own hands’ and going beyond legal targets.
Ahead of Clean Air Day, UK100’s Jonny Wilkinson spoke with Councillor Adam Harrison, the Labour ward councillor for Bloomsbury and Cabinet Member for a Sustainable Camden, about the council’s air quality ambitions.
A cross-party group of political leaders from across the country are calling for Government support to tackle air pollution. 14 Mayors and political leaders from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Leeds, Leicester, Liverpool, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Sheffield, Southampton and the West of England Combined Authority have today joined forces to call for the Government to support a network of 30 new and existing Clean Air Zones, where the most polluting vehicles are fined. A report released by UK100, a network of local leaders, shows that towns and cities could see an economic return of £6.5bn with support from the Government to tackle illegal levels of air pollution.