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  • Environmentally Friendly Technologies

    • Reference: 2020/4066
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 19 November 2020
    The makers of wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles and other supposedly environment-friendly technologies claim that these technologies are ‘green,’ ‘clean’ and ’just.’ Cobalt is an expensive metal used in electric car batteries, costing about $35,000 per ton. Some 59% of all cobalt comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cobalt mining in DRC is often done by children, some as young as seven, with as many as 40,000 working in what are reported to be brutal and unsafe conditions 1 . Is it morally right that the GLA should be developing energy policy, without paying heed to the...

  • Racist Pollution

    • Reference: 2020/2938
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 17 September 2020
    Given your closeness to Extinction Rebellion and your support for ‘Black Lives Matter’, do you agree with Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder Gail Bradbrook, who in the London Evening Standard on Friday 4 September 2020, questioned the ‘racist pollution impact of the Silvertown Tunnel.’ What is your understanding of the term ‘racist pollution’ and will it impact your support for the Silvertown Tunnel?

  • Trees for London

    • Reference: 2020/0455
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
    How is the pledge you made in September 2015 to plant two million trees during your first term, if you became London’s Mayor, coming along? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/24/sadiq-khan-labour-cand…

  • Nitrogen dioxide (1)

    • Reference: 2020/0456
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
    You have stated that three-monthly average NO2 levels in central London fell from 89 micrograms per cubic metre in 2019 Q1 to 57 micrograms per cubic metre in 2019 Q3. What were the three-monthly average NO2 levels in 2018 Q1, 2018 Q2, 2018 Q3, 2018 Q4, 2019 Q2, 2019 Q4, and where can the full set of comparable data be publicly viewed? (Q1 = Jan - Mar, Q2 = Apr - Jun, Q3 = Jul - Sep, Q4 = Oct - Dec)

  • Nitrogen dioxide (2)

    • Reference: 2020/0457
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 24 February 2020
    You stated in the recent Peoples’ Question Time in Wood Green that it would take 193 years for NO2 levels to fall below the legal limit without intervention. What is the source reference for this claim?

  • Airborne Particulate Matter (PMs)

    • Reference: 2020/0137
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 16 January 2020
    What level of particulate matter (PMs) do you consider to be hazardous to human health?

  • Extinction Rebellion (6)

    • Reference: 2019/20207
    • Question by: Peter Whittle
    • Meeting date: 14 November 2019
    Do you still regard Extinction Rebellion as, to use your word, 'Allies'?

  • Underground Air Pollution

    • Reference: 2019/14269
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2019
    It is known that PM 2.5 levels on the London Underground are many times higher than the legal limit, with Hampstead being one of the worst examples, but what are average annual concentrations of NO 2 , SO 2 , methane, ozone and volatile organic compounds at the platform level in Hampstead Station and other PM 2.5 blackspots?

  • PM2.5 Composition (1)

    • Reference: 2019/14271
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2019
    What is the composition of the different elements and compounds in PM2.5s above ground?

  • PM2.5 Composition (2)

    • Reference: 2019/14272
    • Question by: David Kurten
    • Meeting date: 18 July 2019
    What is the composition of the different elements and compounds in PM2.5s below ground on the tube network?