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EIR - Deaths from air pollution [Feb 2023]

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Request reference number: MGLA200223-0475

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Summary of request

Your request

Please provide the statistics of Londoners or visitors who have actually died as a direct result of worsening air pollution attributable to older vehicle emissions, your main justification for extending the ULEZ zone. 

Our response

In 2021, the GLA commissioned research from the Environmental Research Group at Imperial College London to quantify the health burden of air pollution.

In 2019, in Greater London, 61,800 to 70,200 life years lost (the equivalent of between 3,600 to 4,100 attributable deaths) were estimated to be attributable to anthropogenic fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2), assuming health effects exist even at very low levels.

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reference MGLA200223-0475.

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