• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Is this such an amazing breakthrough that none of the people who responded to your air-cooling competition on the Tube came up with it?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Can I congratulate yourself and Nicky Gavron (Deputy Mayor) on this civic initiative, given that 50% of humanity now lives in cities, and I think it is an important area on which we need to lead on climate change. It is also in keeping with the recent Guardian-ICM poll, which suggested that 43% of the public do want the Prime Minister (Tony Blair) to make an issue about climate change with President (George) Bush next month, as well as the Prime Minister's plans to raise it at the G8 (Group of Eight) Summit. Could you just outline what else you...

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Has the municipal company actually been set up, as of now?

• Question by: Darren Johnson
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do you think the CCA and yourself can play a role in pushing those recommendations forward, if you agree with them?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Do we have a time for when that is due to happen?

• Question by: Murad Qureshi
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I was just thinking what you might think of the idea that if the US may not have signed up to the Kyoto Agreement, whether city states and federal states in America should be able to, given that their states are leading so prominently on initiatives on that front. Maybe that is one way of getting the Americans on board.

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

I share your optimism about the potential, if the economics can be got right and the delivery mechanisms. Have you considered the impact that the CCA may have on the 20% reduction target by 2010, given that I think there were European Union (EU) figures just this week showing that greenhouse gas emissions last year were up 1.3% across Europe? Since the Labour Government came to power in 1997, emissions are up 3%, so the trends are all going the wrong way. Do you think that that target of 20% by 2010 is still achievable?

• Question by: Bob Neill
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Who are the firms that we have the deal with?

• Question by: Mike Tuffrey
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

The next question is on Heathrow and Terminal 6. Did you see this month that Friends of the Earth have published a study showing that if air traffic grows at its current exponential rate, all the gains that are coming from the things you have been talking about will be lost through increased emissions from air transport?

• Question by: Roger Evans
• Meeting date: 22 June 2005

Mr Mayor, this morning Mr Jones has made his first appearance in the Evening Standard suggesting that London Underground could be cooled by using wasted energy at London Underground stations to provide cooled water, which would bring down the temperature of the air in the tunnels. Have you had a chance to look at this proposal, or is he just talking off-the-cuff?