Summary
Air pollution is a health and environmental emergency in the UK, with up to 36,000 people dying prematurely every year as a result of dirty air. The UK persistently breaches air pollution legal limits, and action to tackle this issue has been extremely slow.
The most effective way to deal with this is to roll out clean air zones across the country. These are specific areas of cities which charge the most polluting vehicles for entering the zone and, when they cover all vehicle types including private cars, have been shown to encourage the shift to cleaner vehicles and alternative modes of transport, such as walking or cycling.
For this project, we wrote a report which sets out the environmental, health and economic benefits of clean air zones, and presents our research with Public First, investigating the launch of Birmingham’s clean air zone.
Read our report:
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We are grateful for the European Climate Foundation for supporting this work.
