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  • Progress on Environment Strategy that depends on Government

    • Reference: 2022/5278
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    Which aspects of your Environment Strategy have been held up in implementation or development by slow progress from Government?

  • London support for loss and damage in climate treaties

    • Reference: 2022/5279
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 15 December 2022
    What work have you supported as Mayor of London or Chair of C40 Cities to ensure that London supports the UK in providing a fair level of support for loss and damage in climate treaties?

  • Real world impacts of carbon offsets

    • Reference: 2022/3950
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 17 November 2022
    The Climate Change Committee has said that a reliance on offsetting carbon emissions by businesses risks delaying the achievement of net zero. Since 2016, what carbon offset schemes have your office and the wider GLA invested in or purchased to mitigate impacts by staff in the GLA, and how do you assess their standards and minimise their use?

  • Light pollution

    • Reference: 2022/3952
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 17 November 2022
    What actions have you taken to address light pollution in London, what plans do you have to further develop your plans and what targets have you set?

  • Fracking in Sutton, Croydon and Bromley

    • Reference: 2022/3600
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2022
    There is a license for fracking (PEDL 245) that covers large parts of Sutton, Croydon and Bromley. Now that the Government has removed the ban on fracking, what actions are you taking to protect these areas from this dangerous practice?

  • Tree planting by year and borough (2)

    • Reference: 2022/3602
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2022
    Thank you for your answer to my question 2022/2891 on tree planting in London. There is now a severe drought, and councils are asking residents to water new trees to avoid losing them. Could you provide figures on the number of trees lost to drought in GLA-supported tree planting in London by year since 2016, broken down by borough? Could you provide this data in table format?

  • Nuclear impact on London

    • Reference: 2022/3610
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 13 October 2022
    Are you preparing for the possible impact on London of a nuclear event in Europe, which could cause at the very least similar issues as Chernobyl did in 1986?

  • Heathrow air pollution monitoring

    • Reference: 2022/2882
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
    Drawing on the work of the London Atmospheric Emissions Inventory 2019 (LAEI), what conclusions do you currently draw about the causes of peaks in local air pollution around Heathrow, and what updates to monitoring do you consider necessary?

  • Learning from Oslo’s climate budget

    • Reference: 2022/2883
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
    You have said that you will introduce a climate budget from 2023-24. What lessons will you take from the approaches of other cities that already have a climate budget, such as Oslo?

  • End of COP26 UK presidency

    • Reference: 2022/2885
    • Question by: Zack Polanski
    • Meeting date: 15 September 2022
    We are now nearing the end of the year that Alok Sharma MP has been president of COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference. What successes do you consider to have been achieved during this presidency for London and what advice would you offer to the incoming president of COP27 on the priorities for major cities?