I just filled out the government’s consultation on #AirPollution targets. Toxic air is damaging all of our health. We can’t delay. We need #CleanAirNow ! #EnvironmentAct Make your voice heard below!
envirotarget.uk/mums-for-lungs

Love this thread from Tim Smedley about the woeful #EnvironmentAct consultation, published yesterday. We need all hands on deck to demonstrate there is a desire for actual world-leading targets. #CleanAirCantWait Feargal Sharkey Mothers Rise Up 🌍 Mothers CAN (Mothers’ Climate Action Network) ParentsForFuture Global

😍 CALL TO ACTION! 😍
We're asking the Government to improve public awareness of #AirPollution , as they said last year they would, ahead of the upcoming consultation on pollution targets. Please join us & sign this open letter by Weds 9th. 🙏 #CleanAir
bit.ly/lettertogov

In this excellent feature on smarter, fairer road charging, I talk about how the status quo is not fair for non car-owners. “It’s 20p for petrol or £1.50 for the bus for a short journey – the price signals are completely wrong.”

Properly glad to see this move, at last, by the Mayor and so proud of the consistency of @GreenLondonAMs calling for a smarter, fairer system for charging for travelling on London’s roads.👇

'if no additional action is taken to reduce #AirPollution beyond the existing polices, around 550,000 Londoners would develop diseases attributable to air pollution over the next 30 years & the cumulative cost to the NHS & the social care system is estimated to be £10.4 billion.'

If I could do a backflip, I would! Thank you Mayor of London for considering smart road pricing. 👏👏 Looking forward to participating in the conversation with Londoners about what the interim measures before road pricing should be. EVs shouldn't be exempt as their tyres pollute.

We are so pleased to see Mayor of London emphasising his commitment to #AirPollution action with options to reduce traffic during his current term. We have repeatedly called for more than the #ULEZ . Today is a good day for the health of London's children. theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/j…

Note that the climate 'solutions' pushed by the media and politicians are the ones that boost capitalism, such as 'more EVs,' whereas the real solutions are suppressed b/c they require less consumption, more equity, and a rapid, deliberate, just end to the fossil fuel industry.

Call me picky, but I’d much prefer to see an ad campaign where cyclists and pedestrians are shown as #RoadRoyalty , rather than one where a driver does a close-pass and then shouts at a cyclist. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Be a good chance to chat Highway Code changes too 👑👑👑

Thank you to Hina Bokhari AM 🔶 for raising this. We look forward to seeing a #Woodburning awareness campaign from Mayor of London. #AirPollution #London

Whilst the #ULEZ expansion has helped to encourage people to switch to cleaner vehicles, Mayor of London now needs urgently to introduce road-user charging + other car reduction measures to substantially reduce the no. of vehicles on #London 's roads.
#AirPollution #HealthyStreets

What do chess, baseball, placentas, the stock market and GDP have in common?

#AirPollution

Read it and weep.

Thank you David Wallace-Wells.

Tom Edwards If such a critical time for public transport funding then why reduce the £15 Congestion Charge operating hours from 10pm to 6pm on weekdays?

Funding aside, the Mayors Transport Strategy states traffic is at its highest in the evenings.

Seems a no brainer for ££, AQ & climate.

Yes, Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP and Boris Johnson, following hot on the heels of #COP26 , please do not turn your backs on #publictransport and #activetravel in #London . It would be the worst outcome for #AirPollution in our capital and a bad example to the world.

Walking, #cycling & using public transport should be made more attractive than driving to help tackle #London 's #AirPollution , climate & inactivity crises. Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP please give TfL fair, long-term funding for active travel and improving public transport to avoid carmageddon.

'The real prize would be the introduction of a pay per mile road user charging scheme...This would deliver on a raft of objectives – promoting #walking & #cycling , reducing congestion, tackling air quality, & generating substantial income.' Nick Bowes blog.

Bring it on TfL!

Hooray! Today marks the ULEZ expansion - another important step towards cleaner air. If only it could have included the polluted S. Circular. Next step needs to be absorbing #ULEZ into a #London -wide road user charging system. For all our lungs' sake. #WishULEZwasHere #WeLoveULEZ

The impact of World Health Organization (WHO) recalibrating their air pollution safety guidelines is massive.

❌all of London code black and should have daily health alerts.
✅ULEZ is welcome but it’s too small and too late.
💚COP should mean proper action on CO2 and all emissions.

Thank you World Health Organization (WHO)

SUVs are oversize & getting bigger. We don't need urban tanks to protect ourselves & most of us never see a rutted mountain pass in a car. And while these things confer a sense of safety and comfort inside, they're doing the opposite outside on road danger & emissions...