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Campaigners launch clean air manifesto

February 2, 2012 by Martin Hoscik

Campaigners are calling on the next Mayor to clean up London's air quality

The Clean Air in London campaign has published its manifesto for the Mayoral and London Assembly elections on 3 May 2012.

The campaign is calling on all Mayoral candidates adopt policies to reduce pollution in the capital.

The manifesto includes calls for the next Mayor to:

  • Lead the fight to improve London’s air by championing the tightening of health and legal protections, ensuring good governance and improving public understanding of poor air quality
  • Clean up London’s transport by reducing traffic emissions, cleaning up the public transport system, reducing emissions from non-road mobile machinery and supporting active travel
  • Build a low emission city by using planning powers and other opportunities to reduce emissions from buildings and improve indoor air quality
  • Protect the most vulnerable through a focus on children, the elderly, the poor and ethnic minorities
  • Ensure a legacy from the Olympic Games by delivering a low emission Olympics

The full manifesto can be downloaded from the campaign’s website.

Launching the document, Simon Birkett, Founder and Director of Clean Air in London, said: “We need a Mayor who will show the world, starting with the Olympics, that London is leading the way in tackling air pollution as it did after the Great Smog of 1952.”

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Filed Under: 2012 London Elections, News Tagged With: 2012 London Election, Air Quality

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