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In its official response to the Government’s Draft Air Quality Action Plan, the city council has demanded more funding for local authorities to implement innovative new products, such as NO2-reducing road surfaces. The local authority has also called on the Government to set up a network for councils to share information and best practice, as well as introduce a scrappage scheme to encourage drivers to take high-emitting vehicles off the road.
First off, the transport strategy is no simple declaration. At 361 pages, Boris’s strategy came two years after his election in 2008. After one year Sadiq’s first draft is good progress in developing policies to cover off a vast range of services: the Underground, Overground, TfL run railways, DLR, trams, buses, cycle hire, taxis, London’s main roads and funding to London’s boroughs to spend on their streets, for instance.
Volvo has been working on environmental issues for a very long time. In 1972, it became one of our core values and is strongly rooted in the organisation. In 2012, we took the decision about how to proceed with the Euro 6 engine, we had gas buses, diesel buses, and we could see that electrification was becoming more and more important. The Volvo Buses board took the decision that we should not proceed with diesel or gas for city buses beyond the point of the Euro 6.
The centre, which was featured in Environment Journal last year, has been designed to blend in with the natural landscape at the 170-million gallon reservoir, which supplies drinking water to Hull and the surrounding area. It features a 10 metre-long viewing gallery with telescopes and real-time camera footage broadcast on television screens, showing live scenes from across the nature reserve. The £600,000 centre also incorporates reclaimed materials from 1950s buildings around the site.
This includes transferring existing and well advanced offshore oil and gas supply chain skills and know-how into offshore renewables as well as attracting inward investment in Aberdeen, Scotland and the UK. AREG is actively supporting diversification of oil and gas skills into renewables and working closely with Aberdeen City Council’s trade and inward investment team to help shape the city’s approach to trade development activities and new investment opportunities to benefit the local economy.
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