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  • Effect on the Environment of a Third Runway (Supplementary) [2]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 08 September 2015
    Nicky Gavron AM: Sir Howard I want to ask about some of the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) implications - and carbon-emission reduction - that flow from your report. The context is that the Committee on Climate Change has said that to meet the Government target of an 80% reduction for the UK in carbon emissions by 2050, UK aviation emissions will have to stay within a cap of 37.5 million tons per annum. You are saying that even with a third runway you can stay within that cap. First, the basic assumption you make is that your baseline is...
  • Chairman's Question to Guests (Supplementary) [1]

    • Question by: Nicky Gavron
    • Meeting date: 06 February 2015
    Nicky Gavron AM: Sir Edward, thank you very much for that introduction. The big headline out of this Plan is that the Mayor’s target is not high enough to meet the housing that London needs. It does not even take the target that is given in his own evidence. We have a housing crisis. Why are you content to move forward with a Plan that does not meet London’s housing need?