{"id":277677,"date":"2023-09-07T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277677"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:25:52","slug":"experts-warn-ulez-expansion-wont-meet-londons-2030-net-zero-goal-and-could-take-over-a-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=277677","title":{"rendered":"Experts Warn Ulez Expansion Won\u2019t Meet London\u2019s 2030 Net Zero Goal and Could Take Over a Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0RICHARD ELDRED<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite daily fees for non-compliant vehicles, Sadiq Khan\u2019s Ulez initiative has lowered emissions by just 3% in four years. Experts warn it could take over a century to achieve Net Zero emissions at this rate. The Mail<\/em> has more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sadiq Khan\u2019s\u2026 deeply unpopular road charge<\/a>, which has seen protests and violence on the city\u2019s streets, is not a \u201cbig story\u201d in terms of environmental benefit, researchers say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The revelation raises questions as to why the new driving levies<\/a> were rushed through so quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Khan has insisted the Ulez scheme<\/a> is not simply yet another income stream to prop up cash-strapped City Hall and the frequently delayed Tube network and is about the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Richard Holt, the Director of Global Cities Research at Oxford Economics, said non-compliant cars in London would have fallen anyway because of changing industry standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says the greener type of cars being sold already will have much more impact than any of Mr. Khan\u2019s schemes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Holt added: \u201cIt\u2019s going to cut the number of high polluting vehicles by about 120,000 or less, out of three million vehicles in London, so it\u2019s a small part of the overall story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt will probably have some benefit, but it\u2019s not a big story. The progress we have seen so far is really just because cars have become much, much more energy efficient and much cleaner than they used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think the first four years of Ulez, CO2 emissions fell by about 3% over those three years, so it would take more than a century to get to Net Zero this way, which puts the scheme in perspective,\u201d he told the Telegraph<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ultra Low Emission Zone, was last week expanded to cover all of London\u2019s 32 boroughs, and carries a daily charge of \u00a312.50 if vehicles do not comply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new Oxford Economics report suggested that Mr. Khan\u2019s Net Zero goal is not achievable until 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ulez has been devastatingly unpopular already but vast resources have been deployed to make sure people are caught and fined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A fleet of camera vans have already been deployed in a fresh bid to catch charge dodgers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Worth\u00a0reading in full<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Despite daily fees for non-compliant vehicles, Sadiq Khan\u2019s Ulez initiative has lowered emissions by just 3% in four years. 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