METE COBAN
SUSTAINABILITY
METE COBAN
TITLE: DEPUTY MAYOR FOR ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
COMPANY: MAYOR OF LONDON INDUSTRY: PUBLIC BODY LOCATION: LONDON, UK
The Mayor of London’ s work includes making it easier for people to move in and around the city, improving London’ s environment, helping the capital’ s businesses to thrive, providing Londoners with more affordable housing and giving young people in London more opportunities.
“ There is still more to do, but this data shows that sustained, evidence-led action to tackle air pollution saves lives and we are committed to continuing to work alongside the Mayor and our partners to protect the health of every Londoner.”
Long way to go Mete Coban, Deputy Mayor of London for Environment and Energy, was speaking at the Climate Group’ s Opportunity Summit as part of London Climate Action Week in June ahead of the publication of the data. He celebrated the progress made on London’ s air quality, but added there was still a long way to go.
“ When the mayor first got elected in 2016, experts and scientists told him it would take 193 years for us to reach he legal air quality limits here in London. We’ ve done it in just nine years,” Mete explained.
“ In just nine years, we managed to clean our air. Now, there’ s still a long way to go because we’ re still committed to the WHO guidelines, but we’ ve been able to do that by heavily investing.
“ Climate change doesn’ t impact everyone equally. It impacts those who’ ve done the least to cause the crisis in the first place.
“ And if we talk about pollution, there are so many young people, half a million people in our city who will never ever be able to breathe the full capacity of their lungs because of the crisis that they didn’ t cause in the first place, because we’ re dependent on fossil fuels, and every time those toxins go in the air, it stunts the lungs of our children.”
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