The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced plans to make the capital the “greenest” city in the world by 2050, with a series of targets put in place to improve air quality, boost renewables investments and halve food waste. With a headline goal of the capital becoming carbon-neutral by 2050, the London Environment Strategy (LES) sets out ambitious targets of increasing London’s current solar PV capacity by 20 times by 2050, reducing CO2 emissions by 40% by 2020 against a 1990 baseline, and introducing zero-emissions zones in some town centres by 2020, five years ahead of the previous target, to assist businesses with the uptake of electric vehicles. The publication of the LES follows City Hall’s consultations with almost 3,000 Londoners and 370 stakeholders after the launch of the draft strategy last August.
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