Environment
Climate change adaptation strategy
The Mayor's draft climate change adaptation strategy sets out how London can reduce its carbon emissions. The Draft strategy identifies the key risks to London and Londoners and it proposes a range of actions to manage them.
The strategy is now out for public consultation, visit our consultation website
Climate change migitation and energy strategy
The Mayor's draft climate change mitigation and energy strategy sets out how London can reduce its carbon emissions. The strategy outlines practical schemes such as using less energy in buildings and encouraging low emission transport.
The strategy is now out for consultation with the London Assembly and the Functional Bodies.
Impact of London Plan Energy Policies
This independent report by London Southbank University shows that the London Plan has successfully driven carbon emission reductions from new developments of over 30% beyond building regulations between 2006 and 2009. The report underpins the even more stretching targets put forward in the new draft London Plan.
Air Quality
The Mayor's Draft Air Quality Strategy
This Strategy sets out a framework for delivering improvements to London’s air quality and includes measures aimed at reducing emissions from transport, homes, offices and new developments, as well as raising awareness of air quality issues.
Parks and open spaces
Priority Parks programme
The Mayor believes parks and open spaces are key to the capital’s quality of life, and will invest £6 million into improving the quality and safety of London's parks, funded by efficency savings.
Further information on parks and open spaces
Help a London Park
The Help a London Park programme has been launched, where Londoners had the opportunity to vote to decide which parks will receive £400,000 funding.
Watch a video of Boris introducing 'Help a London Park' and encouraging Londoners to vote.
The Mayor's Premier Park
The Mayor has announced the winner of his Premier Park award – a grant of £2 million. This is Burgess Park in the London Borough of Southwark. More about The Mayor's Premier Park.
Plant 10,000 new street trees
The Mayor is working with the Forestry Commission's London Tree and Woodland Grant Scheme to promote street trees. His initiative will fund 10,000
street trees over the next four years in 40 areas across London that have few street trees.
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GLA group
Encourage GLA group staff to volunteer on environmental projects
The Mayor wants to actively promote volunteering in London, especially time spent improving open spaces to the benefit of everyone. He believes the GLA group should lead the way with all staff volunteering one day a year to this cause.
Ban bottled water across GLA group
The Mayor does not believe public bodies should be spending taxpayers' money on expensive bottled water that is environmentally unsustainable and will ban it immediately within City Hall.
Support trial of retrofitting existing GLA buildings, and extend across group
The Mayor believes buildings owned by the GLA should lead the way in retrofitting. He will extend the existing C40 scheme to all buildings owned by the GLA.
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Water
Draft strategy
The Mayor's draft London
Water Strategy, published for consultation, sets out his proposals
for managing London's water resources.
Our growing population, climate change and our ageing water infrastructure
mean that we will all have to pay more attention to where our
water comes from and goes to.
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Waste and recycling
Draft municipal waste strategy
The Mayor's draft
Municipal Waste Management Strategy, entitled London's Wasted
Resource, has been published for consultation.
London Waste and Recycling Board
- The Greater London Authority (GLA) Act 2007 enables the establishment
of a statutory Board to facilitate waste management across London
- the London Waste and Recycling
Board (LWaRB).
- The Mayor chairs
the Board, which has a budget of £84 million to allocate over
three years starting 2008/09 (including £24 million London
Development Agency funds), which is being used to improve waste management
in the capital.
- The London Waste and Recycling Board was set up as
a way to bring together everyone involved in managing the capital's
waste to boost recycling and reduce the amount of waste being sent
to landfill.
Lobby for a ban on single use plastic bags
The Mayor wants to see the Government take a far less cautious approach to banning single-use plastic bags and supports proposals that the Government should negotiate a voluntary agreement with producers and retailers.
Champion schemes like Freecycle that enable goods to be re-used
The Mayor will champion boroughs operating Freecycle and encourage all London boroughs to have a Freecycle outlet whereby to match people who want to get rid of goods with people who want them. He believes this will help reduce the number of re-usable items entering the waste stream.
Encourage boroughs to work with organisations like Recyclebank
The Mayor will champion recycling and wants to make it easy for Londoners. He will investigate the US scheme, RecycleBank, which pays to recycle whilst reducing the amount of waste to (and connected expense of) landfill.
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Reducing emissions
Impact of London Plan Energy Policies - Press Release
Energy Policies Monitoring Project Part 1 Report - PDF
Energy Policies Monitoring Project Part 1 Report - RTF
Commit to 60 per cent carbon reduction target by 2025
The Mayor believes London needs to set an example to the world as
a sustainable, green city, and will work with national and local government
towards a target to reduce the capital's emissions by 60 per cent from
their 1990 levels by 2025. He published his draft London
Climate Change Adaptation Strategy for consultation in August 2008.
Low Carbon Zones
In September 2009 the Mayor launched ten pilot Low Carbon Zones in order
to achieve the long-term goal of a 60 per cent cut in London’s
carbon emissions by 2025. The Mayor has pledged between £200,000 and £400,000 to each winning zone, as well as public support and
programme management from the GLA group.
Delivering low carbon energy for London
In October 2009 The Mayor launched 'Powering ahead - delivering low carbon energy for London', a prospectus supporting the expansion of the decentralised energy market in London. It recognises the roles that the public and private sectors have to play in delivering London's low carbon energy target.
Oppose Heathrow Expansion
The Mayor does not believe the economic benefits of the third runway match the environmental costs. He believes the consultation on Heathrow was flawed and should be conducted again, as it failed to make any noise assessment of flights moving to all-day rather than half-day. He is also concerned that by 2010, at its current size, Heathrow would breach mandatory EU air quality limits. For these three reasons, the Mayor will lobby the government to withdraw plans to expand Heathrow.
Watch Boris talking
about the Heathrow decision
The Mayor held a
special meeting to discuss the expansion of Heathrow Airport on
21 January 2009 at The Beck Theatre in Hayes.
Encourage more hybrid buses
The Mayor believes London's bus fleet should be converted to less carbon-intensive fuel, and will monitor closely technological developments in this area with the intention of deploying it within London's bus fleet when possible. He will push the other C40 cities to maximise their collective purchasing power when the price is right.
Review remaining stages of Low Emission Zone rollout
The Mayor believes improving air quality must be a GLA priority. He will review the Low Emissions Zone (LEZ) to ensure it is working effectively and achieving its aim of improving air quality without impacting on small business.
Exempt ambulances from Low Emission Zone
The Mayor is concerned ambulances fall foul of the £200 LEZ levy and will exempt them completely from the next stage of the rollout.
Working with Government on air quality
There are concerns that some parts of London will not meet the European targets for air quality. The UK Government and the Mayor of London have committed to working together to identify further measures, to ensure the UK will meet the limit value for PM10 in 2011. These measures could include national, London and local measures as necessary.
Further information on air quality – working with Government
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Public involvement
Increasing green spaces to grow food
The Mayor has launched 'Capital Growth', an innovative scheme to turn 2,012 pieces of land into thriving green spaces to grow food by 2012. The project aims to identify suitable patches of land around London and offer financial and practical support to groups of enthusiastic gardeners or organisations who want to grow food for themselves and for the local community.
Watch Boris on the launch of 'Capital Growth'
Insulation schemes
The Mayor is concerned that few Londoners have signed up to existing home insulation schemes and believes evidence from around the UK shows that a one-off Council Tax rebate is the biggest incentive for people to install insulation. He will work with British Gas and the boroughs to introduce a Council Tax rebate.
Environmental crime phoneline
Provision of a non-emergency number for reporting environmental crime will make it easier for people to report and track fly-tipping and other offences in their local area.
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Research
Commission study on hydroelectric power for electricity on the Thames
The Mayor will commission the study as part of a drive towards using London's existing natural and man-made infrastructure to provide heat and power to meet some of London's needs.
Mayoral prize for low carbon technology
The Mayor will stimulate research within low carbon technology by introducing the first Mayoral prize of £20,000 open to all London graduates and judged by a panel of academics.
Investigate geothermal heat pumps in Crossrail tunnels
The Mayor believes considerable decentralised heat can be generated using existing infrastructure, such as Crossrail, being built across London. He believes exploring geothermal heat pumps will complement discussions with Thames Water on providing decentralised heat to homes built in the Thames Gateway by using supply channels to the Barking Power Station.
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