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Charter For Cleaner Air

To Sign up to Oxford's Cleaner Air Charter.

Decision type: Non-key

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Notice of proposed decision first published: 10/12/2018

Decision due: 17 Jan 2019 by Executive Councillor for Climate Action and Environment

Lead member: Executive Councillor for Climate Action and Environment

Department: Environmental Services

Contact: Jo Dicks, Environmental Quality & Growth Manager Email: Jo.Dicks@cambridge.gov.uk.

Additional Information: Requested for pre-scrutiny by Councillors McGerty and Martinelli.

Background Information: Air pollution is the UK’s largest environmental risk to public health. Everyone has a right to breathe clean air, especially the poorest and most vulnerable, whose health is disproportionately impacted. But, local authorities can only do so much within the legislative and funding framework set by Government. Oxford City Council is calling on other councils to sign A new 'Cleaner Air Charter'. Launched it in August, so far, Southampton and Brighton and Hove City Councils have signed up to the Charter. It is the first formal cooperation between Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and local authorities. The Charter challenges government to tackle the issue of air pollution, by providing greater investment in public transport, tightening legal limits and improving national monitoring. It calls on the Environment Secretary to demonstrate leadership by removing the most polluting vehicles from town and cities and launching a public health campaign to highlight the dangers of air pollution.

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