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UN call to stop advertising fossil fuels

  • Reference: 2024/1877
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged countries to ban fossil fuel advertising, and for news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil fuel advertising. Will you instruct Transport for London (TfL) to stop taking advertising that promotes fossil fuels and the products that use them?

Deputy Mayor for Environment

  • Reference: 2024/1876
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
When will a new Deputy Mayor for Environment be in place, and what will their priorities be?

Updating your Environment Strategy (8)

  • Reference: 2024/1875
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/0292, in which you said a decision on any further update to the Environment Strategy would come after the 2024 Mayoral election. As we are now past that election, could you give an update on the process you will follow for either updating the Environment Strategy or the associated implementation plan?

Actions to deliver net zero carbon by 2030

  • Reference: 2024/1874
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
In response to the January 2022 report, London Net Zero 2030: An Updated Pathway, from Element Energy, you indicated that your preferred pathway to achieving net zero carbon in London is ‘Accelerated Green’. What actions have you since taken to implement this pathway and what changes in strategy have you now adopted?

Net zero research and engagement

  • Reference: 2024/1873
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
What research and engagement on net zero have you undertaken since 2016, and where has it been published?

Contaminated land and river pollution

  • Reference: 2024/1872
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
You have pledged to make rivers in London swimmable within ten years. One of the potential causes of pollution in London rivers is the runoff from nearby contaminated land. Have you considered how this will impact your promise to clean up London’s rivers, and what actions are you planning to take?

Airport runway runoff and river pollution

  • Reference: 2024/1871
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
You have pledged to make rivers in London swimmable within ten years. One of the potential causes of pollution in London rivers is the runoff from airport runways and roads. Have you considered how this will impact your promise to clean up London’s rivers, and what actions are you planning to take?

Fires by vehicle type (2)

  • Reference: 2024/1870
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/2581. Could you update both tables with data for 2023, and provide data on the number of fires for cars, buses and motorcycles that were the ignition source for the fire?

London Children in Care Council manifesto

  • Reference: 2024/1869
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
How will you be pushing the GLA to improve the consistency, breadth and quality of the support offered to London’s Care Leavers, as highlighted in the London Children in Care Council (CICC) manifesto?

Political statements and culture funding

  • Reference: 2024/1868
  • Question by: Zack Polanski
  • Meeting date: 20 June 2024
Recent requests made under the Freedom of Information Act by the trade union Equity revealed that the ongoing situation in Gaza was discussed in a meeting between Arts Council England (ACE) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), which led to ACE updating its guidance to say political statements could break funding agreements. How are you ensuring that cultural projects you fund are allowed a full range of political expression?
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