ClientEarth’s June 2020 update outlines air quality news and its relevance to business.
Many people have noticed cleaner air and clearer skies during lockdown. This has resulted in widespread calls for measures to clean up our air permanently from the general public, medical professionals, MPs, and crucially from business.
At the same time it is increasingly clear the route to a strong, resilient economy and the creation of good quality jobs will come through linking recovery to reducing emissions, including those from transport, rather than through propping up old, polluting industries. In his summer statement this week however, Chancellor Rishi Sunak missed a key opportunity to boost clean transport, leaving the UK lagging behind leading EU countries. Germany and France have allocated billions, not millions, to create jobs in the manufacture of zero exhaust emission vehicles (ZEEVs), and to stimulate spending by providing help and support to people and businesses to adopt cleaner forms of transport…read more
