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To: Mr Paul Blomfield MP
Ban diesel cars and vans within Sheffield City Centre like Paris by 2025!
Sheffield City Council and the standing MP, Mr Paul Blomfield to identify the danger of diesel car and van emissions within the city centre of Sheffield and to ban all diesel and van transportation from driving within Sheffield City Centre such as what Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City are planning to do by 2025.
Also to cut the air pollution within Sheffield that affects the people of Sheffield and to remain and be proud that Sheffield is the Greenest city in Europe!!
Why is this important?
To fundamentally cut CO2 emissions within central Sheffield. To prevent deaths from air pollution which diesel car pollution is a major factor.
“Soot from diesel vehicles is among the big contributors to ill health and global warming,” added Helena Molin Valdés, head of the United Nations’ climate and clean air coalition, noting that more than nine out of 10 people around the globe live where air pollution exceeds World Health Organisation safety limits.
Diesel fuel use is a key cause of air pollution in cities, as the engines produce nitrogen dioxide, a harmful gas, and tiny particulates that can lodge in the lungs. These forms of pollution can also interact with other substances to create, in some conditions, a toxic soup.
Fiona Harvey The Guardian 2/12/2016
