London Climate Week: Improving Air Quality Starts With City-Level Actions

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During London Climate Week, experts emphasized that improving air quality requires strong political will and city-level actions, using London as a successful example. Stricter national air quality targets introduced less than a decade ago have led to measurable improvements in the British capital's air quality.

LONDON – “Cleaner air is possible when there’s political will,” said Cecilia Vaca Jones, executive director of Breathe Cities, told a panel during London Climate Action Week. Britain’s capital is the poster child for that statement. In 2019, less than a decade after more stringent national air quality targets were first introduced, some experts estimated […]