Including the closely related terms air pollution, and improved air quality.
… become net-zero carbon will not be easy. It will however offer many additional benefits, including: • Reduced energy bills for residents. • Higher quality of housing stock, making homes healthier and more comfortable to live in. • Improved air quality through the reduction of emissions from gas boilers. • Creating new skilled employment and commercial opportunities within the sustainable…
… on the climate emergency presents further opportunities for better quality of life: at present in the UK cold homes cost the NHS £1.4bn a year, and 40,000 die annually from air pollution-related diseases4. The environmental and health consequences of climate change disproportionately affect low-income countries and poorer people in high-income countries5. In H&F 32% of the reduced life expectancy…
… many years, under its ambition of becoming the greenest borough. Since 2016 it has established and enacted recommendations from resident-led biodiversity and air quality commissions, published and followed a 2018-22 business plan covering environmental improvements in habitats and pollution. In late 2018 the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessed that the world has…
…, and ensure the costs and benefits of action fall justly. Wider environmental benefit. The actions are intended to reduce greenhouse gases, but also aim to improve biodiversity, air quality, and broader sustainability. Wellbeing. Climate actions seek to enhance the health, wellbeing and cultural life of residents, and bring communities together. Partnership. Council action and technological…
… and Ecological Emergency Commission has put it, this involves articulating ‘the amazing quality of life… that would result from a zero carbon, ecologically rich society’. The actions in this strategy bring with them a host of benefits fundamental to the wellbeing and prosperity of our communities. Many of these offer significant positive feedback loops. Reducing air pollution, for instance, can improve…