Cargo Bike Share is a nationwide first, and is one of the many ways we’re working to rebuild a greener Hackney in the aftermath of the pandemic – with cleaner air, healthier lives and better neighbourhoods for all of our residents and businesses.”
Cllr Rowena Champion, Islington Council’s Executive Member for Environment and Transport, said: “We know that by taking steps to help residents and businesses lower their emissions, we can create a greener Islington and achieve net zero carbon status by 2030, to help tackle the climate emergency. 

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Three trends will combine to hasten it, warn Yangyang Xu, Veerabhadran Ramanathan and David G. Victor.
Prepare for the “new abnormal”. That was what California Governor Jerry Brown told reporters last month, commenting on the deadly wildfires that have plagued the state this year. He’s right. California’s latest crisis builds on years of record-breaking droughts and heatwaves. The rest of the world, too, has had more than its fair share of extreme weather in 2018. The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change announced last week that 157 million more people were exposed to heatwave events in 2017, compared with 2000.
Such environmental disasters will only intensify. Governments, rightly, want to know what to do. Yet the climate-science community is struggling to offer useful answers.

It’s clear from the plans that:
• There will be years of disruption

..three years of delays, road works, noise and construction traffic

• Buses, cyclists and pedestrians are neglected
The plans do not provide adequate provision for either pedestrians or cyclists and make no commitment to improving bus frequency and reliability.

• The plans do nothing to address the climate emergency

The claimant in HHRC Ltd v Hackney Borough Council brought an application for judicial review specifically regarding Hackney’s cabinet decision on 29th September 2020 to adopt an emergency transport plan entitled Rebuilding a Green Hackney – Emergency Transport Plan: responding to the impacts of COVID-19 on the transport network (“the ETP”).
‘In particular the claimant is concerned about the proposals within the ETP to introduce Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (“LTNs”),’ the judgement highlighted.

Niamh McIntyre
Conservative councillors, MPs and local associations have vocally opposed measures to clean up air pollution, often in opposition to government policy, a Guardian investigation has found.
Transport decarbonisation is one of the government’s “priority action areas” at the upcoming Cop26 global climate talks. However, cities in the UK have been slow to adopt clean air zones, schemes that deter the use of older, more polluting vehicles and incentivise cleaner forms of transport. Only three cities currently operate a CAZ.
There are 25 council areas covered by clean air zone proposals that also have more than one Conservative councillor. Tory councillors opposed schemes in about half of these (13).

By Thami Croeser and Georgia Garrard and Sarah Bekessy  02 Aug 2021 (Last Updated 4 Aug 2021)
There have been some truly inspiring, exemplar projects in recent years. The transformation of a Seoul freeway to Cheonggyecheon parkland, exposing the historical river that once flowed there, is one celebrated example.
Projects like this are commendable, as urban nature has considerable benefits including, for instance, improving mental health and boosting urban biodiversity.
Our new research looked at what’s holding back greening in our cities. And we found the issue is often internal – cities just aren’t really set up to deliver their plans. Fortunately, this is a very fixable problem.

While suffragettes like Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Wilding Davison are often lauded for their contributions, there were many other women who were instrumental to the campaign, including Annie Kenney.

A working-class woman from Greater Manchester, Kenney was arrested in 1905 after heckling a Liberal politician on the issue of women’s suffrage.