Sadiq Khan has vowed to make London carbon neutral by 2030 if re-elected as mayor, and said he wanted to make the capital the “greenest city in the world”. Announcing his “green new deal”, he said he would also focus on improving air quality and access to green space in London.
“There is no doubt that this is an ambitious target and it is going to be hard for our city to meet, but unless London is stretched we will never make the changes we need,” Mr Khan said in a speech to the Fabian Society’s new year conference.
These plans follow other cities in the UK which have also set a similar 2030 target, including Leeds and Glasgow, while Nottingham wants to become the country’s first ever carbon neutral city in 2028.
Now there are three new City Trees, a series of CO2-filtering structures which have just been installed in Leytonstone. They are actually towers filled with different types of moss, which eat up particulates and nitrogen oxides whilst simultaneously producing oxygen. The City Trees include their own irrigation and energy systems that allows them to operate whatever the weather, and also collect data about the surrounding environment, which can then be used to inform further green solutions.
