Environment and Climate Change Act 2006

* ULEZ's are introduced in Bath, Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Derby, Great London, Greater Manchester, Leeds, Leicester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Portsmouth, Sheffield and Southampton. Work travel, deliveries, emergency vehicles, taxis and transit will be exempt from ULEZ. ULEZ bans any car with an internal-combustion engine
* Introduced congestion charge. Revenues go to city's sustainable transport schemes
* Removing parking spaces, alter traffic routes and replace parking spaces with bike lanes and walkways, add car-free streets
* Park and Stride
* Car with an internal-combustion engine are banned form the city centre, work travel, deliveries, emergency vehicles, taxis and transit will be exempt. Violation fines fund public transport
* Workers given free public transport pass, then private shuttles to workplace
* Parking management and removal of spaces. Discounts for public transport; improved bike infrastructure; advice to help commuters use public transport/walk/cycle
* Reduced parking on campus
* Free public transport pass and shuttle connections for students. Free public transport pass (UB pass) for employees. Green Shuttle Bus: private bus which transfers between train stations, park’n’ride facilities and business areas. Bus Shuttles: Bus Rapid Transit to Campus (2013) + Metro-Bus-Shuttle (2017), free access to all public transport for students, Ph.D., trainees, Erasmus students etc.
* Car sharing access integrated to work and neighbourhoods. increase of car-sharing cars + stations (city-centre + residential areas), car-sharing services for private households + employees (e.g., municipality), bicycle stands at car-sharing station, proximity of car-sharing stations to public transport nods (e.g., train station), awareness-raising + PR campaigns: billboards, media reports, campaigns, media coverage (local radio, newspaper), direct marketing campaigns, street events and possibility to purchase and Public Transport Season Ticket in combination with Car-Sharing Card
* Advice and events to help students and parents walk, cycle or carpool to school
* Discounted public transport; advice to help city residents walk and cycle
* Similar to school travel planning, residents in cities are provided advice, planning and events to highlight more sustainable ways of getting around the city
* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X22000281#:~:text=Travel%20Planning%0A(TP,phone%20calls%2C%20etc.
* Workplace Parking Charge
* Introduction of car-free streets
* Alteration of traffic routes
* New bike lanes + extension of pedestrian-friendly infrastructure (pedestrian network, terraces, playgrounds etc.)
* Rewards for achieving targets for walking, cycling or using public transport
* Car parking is banned in all Royal Parks. Roads in Greenwich Park remain closed, along with Richmond Park and Bushy Park
* Introduced Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
* School Streets Initiative
* Switch Air passenger duty to an air flight duty limited to non-EU flights based on emissions, not passengers, for flights not covered by the ETS.
* Increased electric bike limit to 20mph
* Adopted a law of Presumed Liability to protect vulnerable road users
* Illegal for the DVLA to sell personal data to any private parking firm
* Change so bus drivers must take a 45 minute break after driving for 4 hours and 30 minutes
* New national railcard that covers the entire network with no circumstantial restrictions (e.g. age, disability) and entitles the holder to 33% off all off-peak tickets
* Change Ofcom regulation to designate commercial Air Traffic Control radio a media for "general reception". This will mean the public can listen to it which will help people's educational needs as well as thousands of aviation enthusiasts.
* Change the units used in transport from imperial to metric
* Add ‘Morpeth Diversion’; a fast alignment around the Morpeth Curve on the ECML avoiding the Morpeth Curve
* Added in the Highway Code that parking on the pavement will be illegal and result in a £70 fine and also install physical barriers between roads and pavements to make this impossible
* Increase mobility scooter maximum speed limit on roads to 15mph
* Ban smart motorways and reinstate all hard shoulders where they have been replaced by live lanes
* Change the Blue Badge parking scheme so people who are 100 automatically qualify
* Increase the maximum penalty for Death By Dangerous Driving to life imprisonment, with a mandatory 15 year minimum sentence and driving ban
* The offence of causing 'death by dangerous driving' should be widened to include: failure to stop, call 999 and render aid on scene until further help arrives
* Increase the fine for mobile use from £200 to £1,000
* Those who have murdered others on the road, will be disqualified for life.
* Cyclist must wear a helmet, hi-vis and have lights on their bike or be a fine of £50-£100
* Amend road traffic legislation to refer to 'collisions' and not 'accidents’
* Install additional safety measures on all bridges such as higher barriers, similar to those installed on the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol.
* Reinstate street lamps on M66 Bury Lancashire
* Amend the Road Traffic Act 1988 and make it a legal requirement for all drivers to be in possession of their licence when driving and for it to be an offence not to produce it to police officers at the time of being pulled over
* I want a traceable line of where they have come from, including vehicle ownership details and the scrap catalytic-converters only to be bought from registered company's licensed to sell them as scrap. Also large fines for scrap dealers handling stolen catalytic-converters
* The 'hazard perception test' is added to the practical test and removed from the theory test.
* End 'Spanish practice' that prevents maintenance teams from working on 2 stations that are only 5 minutes' walk apart
* Bring forward new law for 'death by dangerous cycling' offence and harsher penalties for reckless riders. Introduce a law which would see death by dangerous cycling treated in the same way as motor offences
* Merged PSV (Public Service Vehicle) license into Category C license
* Create Dutch-style cycling infrastructure
* Expand pedestrian-only zones
* Create Bicycle superhighways similar to Denmark
* Make on street bike parking free offer a secure place to park a bike for people who lack bike storage at home
* Vehicle-miles-travelled taxes
* Distance-based vehicle insurance
* New Highway Code
* THE GREAT BRITISH TRANSPORT COMPETITION
* How to design and implement a clean air or low emission zone
* Integrated transport [study]. Joining up bus and train services will not be "anti-competitive" and thus will not be investigated by the CMA. Integrating rail
* How to expand our railways [study]. https://www.railway-technology.com/analysis/solutions-for-rail-overcrowding/
* Re-opening rail lines, and all rail lines will be electrified
* Getting there
* National Bus Strategy
* Total Transport
* Switch local and long-distance shipping from trucks to trains. [source, 2, 3, 4]
* New warehouses are mandated to have a rail connection.
* Expand light rail transit
* All pelican and puffin to be converted to Toucan cross

## **Policies**

* Climate\_Change\_and\_Sustainable\_Energy\_Act\_2006
* Climate\_Change\_Act\_2008
* Climate and Ecology Bill
* Airport Watch
* Association for Environment Conscious Building
* Circular economy
* UKGBC [about us page]
* Mixed-use development
* Implement radical measures to tackle air pollution
* The Garden Bridge started in 2015 and completed by 2018 (owned and managed by The Garden Bridge Trust, a registered charity (charity registration number 1155246) and a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales, and with an exemption from use of the term "Limited", was to own the bridge, as private space in the public realm)
* SkyCycle
* Inclusion of legally binding targets on plastic pollution by 2010, and banning single-use plastics. The Act will also protect all of British's land for nature by 2012 enshrined in law in the bill, and aims to get 100% of energy from renewable sources by 2012
* Biomass is not included as a "green energy"
* The bill includes powers to introduced binding targets on air and water quality and wildlife conservation
* Fully fund and take responsibility for the insulation of all housing in Britain by 2012
* Developing financial incentives for green investment and reduced energy usage.
* Government-led investment in energy efficiency and microgeneration which would make 'every building a powerstation'.
* The creation of thousands of green jobs to enable low-carbon infrastructure reconstruction.
* Changes to the UK's financial system, including the reduction of the Bank of England's interest rate, once again to support green investment.
* Large financial institutions - 'mega banks' - to be broken up into smaller units and green banking [source]
* Scrapped Microgeneration Certification Scheme [source, petition]
* Scrapped Sales Tax (or VAT) on energy retrofits [source]
* The bill contains provision for a new Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) watchdog and would create a framework for legally binding targets, such as to reduce particulate pollution, and will have full independence and enforcement powers. It is a independent neutral body that is not political and lasts beyond political cycles that monitors and ensures progress to net 0 – including citizens’ assemblies (as a neutral and fair option) and independent experts – to guarantee continued progress and policy development
* A dedicated department for achieving net 0 which holds regular briefings with clear milestones that hold the government to account”. The government should publish the carbon budgets (i.e. the 5 yearly plans showing where the UK should be on its path to net 0) and progress towards them on a quarterly basis. There should be regular (at least annual) independent reviews, citizens’ assemblies and scrutiny by the 6 parliamentary committees to ensure progress is being made by government to reach net 0
* Financial services should be encouraged to invest in climate conscious companies
* It will give people a greater say in the management of local street trees and enshrine in law the idea of biodiversity offsetting
* The bill also includes new rules intended to stop the import of wood, soy, palm oil, beef, leather and other key commodities to Britain from areas of illegally deforested land. As well as reduction of imported goods, increase on import tax to discourage companies from importing goods
* (This bill as well as the updated agriculture bill and fisheries bill will form a new legal framework for environmental protections post-Brexit. Such obligations have for the previous 40 years been defined largely by the EU. Britain would be able to diverge in future from new requirements in EU regulations.) - 2021
* Made deforestation illegal, make it so more land, especially that of forests, has greater protection in relation to what people can build, cut down, and change – ensuring that the buildings work with nature than against
* Install ‘payback’ machines in many towns, whereby people can return plastic bottles for money as they have in Germany.
* Implements a ‘plant a tree’ scheme whereby a person or business has to plant X number of trees depending on how much land they own.
* New houses will be build with ground/air source heat pumps, go electric
* Developing Low-carbon Hydrogen Production with an aim to develop the first entirely hydrogen-heated town by 2016
* Developing Clean Nuclear Energy
* Working with Bioregional
* Encourage retailers to keep their doors closed to conserve energy and reduce carbon emissions
* Ban over-bright blue-rich LEDs
* All streetlights to be energy efficient
* Use dimmable shielded streetlights
* **More Efficient Homes and Buildings:** Help our homes and public buildings become greener, warmer and more efficient by installing 600,000 heat pumps a year and creating 50,000 jobs by 2016.
* **Increase Active Removal of Greenhouse Gases:** Becoming a world leader in technology that could capture and remove 10MT of CO2 from the atmosphere by 2016.
* **Restore Natural Environments and Increase Biodiversity:** Protect and restore our natural environments by planting 30,000 hectares of trees per year, creating and sustaining thousands more jobs.
* **Green Budget Management:** Develop cutting-edge technology to help manage the finances needed to reach these new sustainable ambitions, and become a ‘global centre of green finance’.
* Generating electricity from wave power and tidal power
* Geothermal power stations in Cornwall, Weardale, Lake District, East Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Cheshire, Worcester, Dorset, Hampshire, Northern Ireland and Scotland
* Hydroelectric power stations will be set up in reservoir areas and limit environmental damage
* The aim is to move towards a more renewables and nuclear-heavy energy mix, and importantly the move towards electrifying things that are currently run on gas and oil; heating, cooking, driving” is vital
* Immediately halt all future licensing and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK except for "essential reasons" (such as emergency vehicles and food deliveries)
* Stopped handing public money, mainly in the form of tax breaks, rebates and subsidies to oil and gas companies. Instead implements a Norway-styled special 78% rate of tax on the profits of oil and gas companies (ordinary petroleum tax at the rate of 27% and an additional special tax of 51%)
* Stop funding oil and gas overseas
* New tax for retailers that waste food
* Require sanitary bins be provided in men and women's toilets
* Wildlife will be protected, and we will expand national parks and wilderness areas. Religious slaughter and other inhumane treatment of animals will be banned.
* Stop the selling of computer games codes in physical boxes (instead use email)
* Banned climate-wrecking projects like airport expansion and new roads
* Unleash local climate action by giving councils the money and powers they need
* Create hundreds of thousands of green jobs
* Insulate every home to cut emissions and end fuel poverty
* Double tree cover to tackle climate breakdown and support nature
* 100-easy-ways-to-be-more-eco-friendly
* Green computing
* Environmental technology
* Carbon capture and storage
* All business must be climate accounting
* Introduced a carbon tax and carbon pricing
* Turn more streetlamps into electric charging points
* All new technologies must be energy efficient
* Remove disposable plastic razor, tumble dryer, bottled water (instead create a free water refill station absolutely everywhere and encourage people to take reusable bottles), petrol-powered mowers, incandescent lightbulbs, gas ovens and bathtubes from the market. All showers equipped with shower timer
* All building (except for Individual houses or private dwellings unless they are built new) will: (a) only have showers not bathes, (b) be equipped with LED lightbulbs, (c) touchless facet sink, (d) gray water systems/catching rainfall, (e) low-flow showerheads, faucets & toilets, (f) heatpumps, (h) insulation, (i) seal all of your windows and/or replace them with more efficient double-pane windows. (j) touchless hand dryer. (k) Programmable thermostat. (l) Net metering
* Remove paper towels from toilets instead use touchless hand dryer
* Remove unnecessary power consuming from the market such as electronic clocks, electric toothbrushes, wireless hoovers, wireless controllers, wireless headphones, TV boxes & recorders (streaming service) and printers (Ticketed events will be digital)
* Remove all items that use energy that are rated D to G.
* All toilet papers will be recycled or tree-free.
* Eco-Friendly Central Heating
* Eco Friendly Products You Can Buy Today to Help Stop Plastic Pollution
* Create Off-Grid House
* Green chemistry
* Green computing
* Net metering
* Reusable Swab
* Compost food
* Install low-flow showerheads, faucets, and toilets
* Install gray water systems or catching rainfall
* Install a bidet attachment
* Programmable thermostat
* Zero-plastic (body wash in plastic bottles are removed & replaced with Body Wash Bar, and replace plastic bottles with non-plastic cans, replacing plastic toothbrushes with bamboo toothbrush)
* Reusable menstrual products like period panties, menstrual cups, and cloth pads
* https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment\_data/file/218799/tackling-climate-change.pdf
* I-have-seen-the-future-and-its-clusters/
* Why-we-need-some-de-growth-in-the-suburbs/
* Re-imaging our societies 3: why-not-replace-bureaucratic-self-interest-with-self-interest-in-consumer-satisfaction/
* Re-imagining our societies 4: rethinking-town-planning-by-valuing-the-vested-interests/
* Re-imagining our societies 5: maybe-we-will-get-used-to-moving-around-less/
* Re-imagining our societies 6: coping-with-global-heating-and-declining-prosperity-a-brief-for-inventors/
* Housing-development-designed-be-fully-self-sufficient-energy-food-waste-4858365
* Draught-proofing windows and doors
* Re-Water-develops-world-first-100-recycled-aluminium-bottle-It-s-cutting-single-use-packaging-plastics-and-carbon-emissions
* Foods however will not be included and will not be switching
* Remote work should be a permeant employee benefit [Reddit]
* Law firms announcing a permanent shift to homeworking
* 25 Companies Switching to Permanent Remote Work-From-Home Jobs
* Covid-19 could cause permanent shift towards home working
* Production Service facilities which support productions run on renewable energy, operate single-use plastic-free campus, and donate end of life technical equipment to charities.
* Relaxed rules for restaurants, cafes and bars to get licenses for outdoor seating, and also rules for local authorities to make Traffic Orders, including closing roads to enable outdoor hospitality. We want these changes made permanent, to support hospitality businesses.
* Mandatory for restaurants to donate left-overs to local food banks.
* Require carbohydrates be listed on menus in cafes, restaurants and takeaways
* Require licensing authorities to inspect licensed venues regularly, with the results added to a national Safety Rating system, like the Food Hygiene ratings for restaurants
* Legal requirement to list N2O in ingredients as an allergen on food / drink / medical products, including warnings not to use if b12 deficient.
* All new builds fitted with solar and rain harvesting systems for toilets and showers and must a minimum energy performance rating of "C"
* All lights to be sensor-based
* Prohibit the unsolicited delivery of plastic bags
* Compulsory for schools and workplaces to have recycling bins
* Ban non-biodegradable cling film to help the environment
* Ban all non-biodegradable chewing gum
* Remove Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers from the market.
* Reintroduce Feed-in Tariffs
* Make releasing helium balloons and sky lanterns a specific littering offence
* Remove annual fossil fuel subsidies of £10.5 billion and introduce charges on producers of greenhouse gas emissions
* Protect and restore Britain’s lost rainforests
* Ban all non-recyclable wrapping paper, decorative bows, tags and ribbon from being manufactured and sold
* Ban all plastic packaging
* Ban non-compostable mixed material consumer food packaging by 2030. This should force manufacturers to use compostable packaging such as PLA instead for multi-layer material packaging e.g. crisp packets.
* Ban the manufacture and sale of plastic bottles
* Follow suit with the EU and remove VAT on the supply, rental and repair of bicycles, including e-bikes. This could encourage more people to cycle and thus reduce carbon emissions, which in turn would improve life in our country and on our planet
* Follow the example set in the EU by banning any new incinerators for the purpose of waste disposal. They should also ban pyrolysis facilities, and instead seek the solutions we need to reduce waste completely by investing in waste reduction, reuse and recycling
* Ban development on agricultural land. We should only build on areas that is not or has not previously been used for farming
* All non-private residential buildings to be required to have HEPA air filters
* Pass an Indoor Clean Air Act legislation that sets minimum standards for ventilation and air filtration in indoor spaces where the public meet outside their homes
* Require new large buildings include renewable energy generation
* Remove disposable plastic razor, tumble dryer, bottled water (instead create a free water refill station absolutely everywhere and encourage people to take reusable bottles), petrol-powered mowers, incandescent lightbulbs, gas ovens and bathtubes from the market. All showers equipped with shower timer and all building (except for Individual houses or private dwellings unless they are built new) will only have showers not bathes, be equipped with LED lightbulbs, electric toilets and sink
* Remove unnecessary power consuming from the market such as electronic clocks, electric toothbrushes, wireless hoovers, wireless controllers, wireless headphones, TV boxes & recorders (streaming service), printers (Ticketed events will be digital)
* Remove all items that use energy that are rated D to G.
* All toilet papers will be recycled or tree-free.
* All building (except for Individual houses or private dwellings unless they are built new) will add insulation
* All building (except for Individual houses or private dwellings unless they are built new) will seal all of your windows and/or replace them with more efficient double-pane windows
* Zero-plastic (body wash in plastic bottles are removed and replaced with Body Wash Bar and replace plastic bottles with non-plastic cans, replacing plastic toothbrushes with bamboo toothbrush)
* Reusable menstrual products like period panties, menstrual cups, and cloth pads
* Net 0 carbon by 2030
* Kick-start a Green Industrial Revolution that will create 1 million jobs in the UK to transform our industry, energy, transport, agriculture and our buildings, while restoring nature. Our Green New Deal aims to achieve the substantial majority of our emissions reductions by 2030 in a way that is evidence-based, just and that delivers an economy that serves the interests of the many, not the few.
* Create a Sustainable Investment Board to bring together the Chancellor, Business Secretary and Bank of England Governor to oversee, co-ordinate and bring forward this investment – involving trade unions and business. We will ask the Office for Budget Responsibility to incorporate climate and environmental impacts into its forecasts so that the cost of not acting will be factored into every fiscal decision
* Launch a National Transformation Fund of £400 billion and rewrite the Treasury’s investment rules to guarantee that every penny spent is compatible with our climate and environmental targets – and that the costs of not acting are fully accounted for too. Of this, £250 billion will directly fund the transition through a Green Transformation Fund dedicated to renewable and low-carbon energy and transport, biodiversity and environmental restoration.
* Create a National Investment Bank, backed up by a network of Regional Development Banks, to provide £250 billion of lending for enterprise, infrastructure and innovation over 10 years. They be mandated to lend in line with our mission to decarbonize our economy while increasing productivity and creating good jobs across the country.
* As well as large-scale national and regional projects, smaller loans will be available through our new Post Bank based in Post Office branches, enabling thousands of bottom-up transformational changes by start-ups, small businesses, local co-operatives and community projects in towns and villages up and down the country.
* We will make sure that the UK’s financial sector is helping to tackle the emergency rather than fueling it. We will do this by improving the fitness of our financial authorities to mobilize green investment and by giving them powers to manage the risk to financial stability posed by short-sighted investment in polluting assets.
* Just 100 companies globally are responsible for the majority of carbon emissions. We won’t be afraid to tackle this wanton corporate destruction by taking on the powerful interests that are causing climate change. Change the criteria a company must meet to be listed on the London Stock Exchange so that any company that fails to contribute to tackling the climate and environmental emergency is delisted.
* Build: (a) 7,000 new offshore wind turbines. (b) 2,000 new onshore wind turbines. (c) Enough solar panels to cover 22,000 football pitches. (d) New nuclear power needed for energy security.
* Trial and expand tidal energy and invest to reduce the costs of renewable and low-carbon hydrogen production. We will upgrade almost all of the UK’s 27 million homes to the highest energy-efficiency standards, reducing the average household energy bill by £417 per household per year by 2030 and eliminating fuel poverty. We will introduce a zero-carbon homes standard for all new homes.
* As part of heat decarbonisation, we will roll out technologies like heat pumps, solar hot water and hydrogen, and invest in district heat networks using waste heat. To balance the grid, we will expand power storage and invest in grid enhancements and interconnectors. We will expand distributed and community energy, and immediately and permanently ban fracking. We will support energy workers through transition and guarantee them retraining and a new, unionised job on equivalent terms and conditions. We will introduce a windfall tax on oil companies, so that the companies that knowingly damaged our climate will help cover the costs. We will provide a strategy to safeguard the people, jobs and skills that depend on the offshore oil and gas industry.
* https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3055

Green the schools: shrink the carbon footprint of your child's school through architectural design, waste management, cafeteria choices, and energy conservation. Involve students in green programs, such as student-maintained gardens, cafeteria composting, and initiatives to reduce energy use and waste. Environmental projects are fun, and will raise awareness in parents, school personnel and children alike

Green workplace: workplace environmental committee to work with your company in making environmental impacts a consideration in everyday operations, by, for example, facilitating telecommuting and carpooling, reducing paper use, and providing drinking glasses instead of bottled water at meetings and events. Make sure someone has the responsibility of turning off electronics, lights, and heat in the evening and encourage the proliferation of green plants to improve air quality

Export of plastic waste to developing countries will not be introduced as it has already got the power under the Basel Convention, an international treaty to prevent transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries

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### **Transportation**

* Green Cruising [pdf, hydrogen]
* Sydney port to provide 100% renewable power to docked ships
* Great British Railways [wiki] a properly integrated approach. This should bring together the interests of rail users, public policy objectives, budgets, planning and skills to ensure the network is managed in the widest interests, that the right investment projects go forward and are delivered in a realistic and cost effective manner. The best way to do this through a properly accountable national operator which works in partnership with passenger groups, national government, city regions, train operators, communities and others and is incentivised to meet agreed shared objectives
* Ban private cars from UK roads. Public transport, deliveries, taxis, emergency vehicles and Blue Badge holders will be exempt. Legal modes of transit will include public transport, travel on foot, by horse, taxi or cycling. Fines to anyone who broke the rule
* Planes, public transport, deliveries, taxis, emergency vehicles and Blue Badge holders should be no.1 priory.
* Greener roads [study], should treat increasing road capacity as a last resort
* Limiting the use of frequent flyer programmes and mandating disclosure of total corporate travel emissions by companies. “bottom-up” policies adopted by major corporations to reduce their own travel
* All buses will either be electric or hydrogen [source]
* Revitalising\_Public\_Transport\_Use\_Post\_Pandemic\_May\_2021
* Ghent example
* Thriving rural communities need to be well-connected with good public transport in order to thrive. Invest in rural communities by establishing a dedicated rural transport fund
* Introduce prizes for free rail or bus tickets, ban prizes for a new car
* **Public Transport:** Make cycling and public transport more attractive ways of getting around and invest in zero-emission public transport technology. Greener Flight and Maritime
* More transition by backing British car manufacture, rolling out more chargepoints and development of more and better electric vehicle batteries for public transport, deliveries, taxis, emergency vehicles and Blue Badge holders
* Converted a lot of wide roads into narrow traffic calm streets, add a Median strip and expand sidewalks.
* Place traffic lights just above pedestrians head
* No business/company can make a driving license mandatory except for purpose of estate agent, deliveries, emergency vehicles, taxis and transit
* Public transport, deliveries, taxis, emergency vehicles and Blue Badge holders will be the first to accelerate to green/renewable energies due to its importance/essentialness
* Encourage carpooling [source] and discourage non-carpooling
* Series of traditional city blocks and turns them into pedestrian-only superblocks, where interior roads become car-free transportation corridors. Each of these areas encourages the creation of new parks, neighbourhood interactions and integration, as well as street-level retail where cars and parking once stood
* Shifting remaining mobility needs from cars to active and public transport wherever possible
* Turning congested, car-filled thoroughfares into purpose-built pedestrian areas
* 15-minute city [Paris, wiki] and 45-minute city
* Change policies and streets, including replacing car parking with safe, separated bike lanes
* 12 best ways to get cars out of cities
* Thoughtful travel policies to reduce unnecessary travel, and opportunities for faraway participants to fully participate in meetings and conferences digitally. Trend towards virtual and hybrid conferences may be an effective climate change mitigation strategy
* Added pop-up bike lanes
* Encourage people and business living close to work
* Banned leaded petrol
* Restricted category B licences, theory tests and practical tests for anybody wanting a category B licence to those who need it for work (must prove it), deliveries, emergency vehicles, taxis and transit
* Invest in improving the frequency, reliability, accessibility, affordability and size of the public transport network
* Supporting high-emission industries utilising research into zero-emission planes (‘Jet zero’) and ships.
* Airlines must be required to adopt short-term emissions reductions targets which are in line with the Paris Agreement. They must also explain how they will meet those targets, without relying on offsets or other measures which do not sufficiently reduce climate impacts.
* Airlines must be prevented from using bailout funds to line the pockets of shareholders. They must also begin paying a fair share of tax, including a Frequent Flyer Levy. Consider receiving a stake in the company in return for state assistance.
* Reducing demand for air travel starts at work
* Getting an e-bike will permanently reduce your reliance on fossil fuels, especially as we move to more zero-carbon forms of electricity production
* Encourage children to take up cycling with free cycling lessons in school.
* Local businesses and community requirements would include high speed telecommunications (fibre) which reduces the need for travel
* For longer journeys, use public transport, or try car sharing schemes.
* https://www.london.gov.uk/about-us/london-assembly/london-assembly-publications/london-stalling-reducing-traffic-congestion
* Banned the sale and importation of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars
* Replacing petrol and diesel with Liquefied Petroleum Gas
* Reducing roads can cause traffic to evaporate
* Car-free cities pedestrianisation cycling driverless vehicles York, Oslo, Birmingham
* What-happens-when-a-city-bans-car-from-its-streets
* Car-free-futures-how-european-cities-are-experimenting-with-green-transport
* Here are 4 ways keep traffic streets London
* Re-imagining our societies 7: towards a car free
* Re-imagining our societies 8: car free or not?
* Accelerate a greater shift away from cars
* Replaces Low Traffic Neighbourhoods with 'Bus gates'
* Introduced a car scrappage schemes and mobility credits such as to trade in a private car for vouchers that could include public transport, bike & scooter (for hire or purchase), or car clubs
* Fewer business flights and more remote meetings will save money for your business, protect your employees’ well-being, reduce emissions, show corporate leadership in the climate crisis, meet investor expectations and ensure resilience
* Frequent flight levy
* Badvertising
* National Park City
* Introduce eMotorway everywhere in motorways
* Powering Parks
* Riding Sunbeams
* Climate Perks
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* FAQ-e-kerosene-1.pdf
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### **The Green New Deal Act**

* Paragraph subsection 1 (5), 2 (h) is removed
* ~~Take back control from the markets to open-up opportunities for public-led investment in the Green New Deal;~~
* Introduce legally-binding targets to cut emissions, reverse inequality and turn around the degradation of our environment, year-on-year to 2016, maintaining a zero carbon economy after that;
* Change the way the Government manages the economy to enable extensive public and private investment in a Green New Deal;
* Appoint a Green New Deal Commission drawn from across civil society to draw up a comprehensive action plan to transform our energy supply, transport system, farming, buildings and the way we work
* Make sure that the government, Treasury, Bank of England and the Debt Management Office cooperate so that the funding required for the Green New Deal will be available at the lowest possible price for society;
* End our fixation on growth and prioritise new measures that help guide us towards improvement in people’s health and well-being, the reduction of inequality, tackling the climate emergency, and the restoration and protection of the natural environment;
* Redistribute democratic power and resources to devolved government and elected mayors, including the power to raise their own green bonds;
* Guarantee climate justice, by ensuring investment across the UK, with a particular focus on de-industrialised areas and among the many communities who have been excluded from full participation in the economy and society;
* Transform our energy supply and transport systems, eliminating greenhouse gas emissions and reducing air pollution;
* Make housing energy-efficient, ensuring all new homes are zero-carbon and meet social need;
* Decarbonise our farming, reducing the ecological damage caused by current methods and improving our food system;

### **Sport**

* Football needs an independent environmental task force to regulate and strictly enforce the highest green standards at every professional club, with draconian measures that include expulsion from the league for those who don’t comply. A central green fund built from a percentage of every club’s turnover could be set up so all clubs can afford the measures needed, funded from within the game.
* Everything in football needs to be eco-checked, from the source of power at the club, how it uses water and what it sells, right down to the materials used for shirts (Forest Green Rovers’ shirts are now 50% bamboo, moving towards being 100% free of plastic microfibers), the cars driven by players and staff, and the business it does with sponsors. Everything.
* UK Government banned sponsorship deals with ‘high carbon polluters’ or companies promoting high carbon lifestyles, products and services (airlines, car makers, fossil fuel companies). Sports sponsorship also logically falls under the remit of responsible consumption listed under principle 4 of the UN Sports for Climate Action Framework
* Cricket matches go zero-waste by implementing Green Protocol. UN & BCCI bat for zero-waste green cricket. First carbon neutral match. Lord's sustainability. Making a cricket match carbon neutral
* World Rugby launches ambitious plan to support global action on climate change
* How your GAA club can save thousands and be kinder to the environment (Green Clubs Programme)
* Premier League announced from 2007/08 season that they all their matches will go net zero carbon
* https://ecosports.com/
* Now football goes green! All 92 Premier League and EFL clubs have been sent a 100-page draft of new proposals to use next season... including cycle-to-work schemes, encouraging video meetings and serving more plant-based food (exclude plant based foods)
* Electronic programming and ticketing, no more paper tickets and programmes.
* Offer boat rides to stadiums
* Staff to use cycle-to-work schemes and to take advantage of Government incentives, such as tax-free and pool bikes, to encourage staff to avoid using cars to commute
* Switch to 100% renewable energy providers, self-generate from the solar panels on the stadium roof and the solar tracker at the ground entrance
* Reduce unnecessary travel by using online video meeting tools
* Restricting use of heating, ventilation and air conditioning to reduce energy use
* Installed additional metering to enable better energy management across all sites
* Wooden stirrers for coffees and tea's instead of plastic ones
* Paper cups phased out in our administration offices, with staff only able to use reusable plastic cups or their own non-disposable cups
* Training complex's will have sustainability at its core focus. There are ponds and safe habitats for wildlife, as well as more than 21,500 new trees on the site. They also work with the National Forest Company (NFC) to bring outdoor learning to schools as part of Defra’s Community Forest and Woodland Outreach Project as well as encouraging biodiversity by planting 635 new trees and 6,000 plants
* Food goes to anaerobic digestion –  the compost from this has gone to local community projects
* Grass goes to compost which is made available for local residents to use. It has also be used in community projects
* Where possible and in line with health and safety controls, food is donated to local food charities
* Old furniture has been donated to local sports and community clubs
* Old floodlights were donated to sports clubs
* Growing vegetables in a local allotment the size of a football pitch, which are served on matchdays
* LED lights and LED floodlights, the floodlights will not be turned on in the day only when it gets dark.
* Large-scale battery storage system
* Eco-friendly sports balls and equipment
* Water soluble and biodegradable golf balls and is looking to expand into biodegradable golf tees
* 100% renewable energy and Zero Scope 2 emissions at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, with LED lighting (including floodlights) and high efficiency building services systems in place to reduce energy use
* A ‘zero to landfill’ waste management programme, with clear recycling instructions for fans on its bins, as well as a reusable beer cup scheme
* Single-use plastic reduction measures in place across the Club - players drink water from cartons, food is served in recyclable packaging with wooden cutlery, and even beer keg caps are recycled at the stadium
* All food served inside the stadium is locally and sustainably sourced, with plant-based options available across all outlets and in Premium areas
* Significant investment into our local transport infrastructure with the stadium served by four train stations and a free matchday shuttle bus, with provision for 180 bikes to be parked nearby the stadium
* Water consumption minimised with waterless urinals and low flow fittings and fixtures.
* An ecological habitat established at our Training Centre, including an organic Kitchen Garden; hundreds of new and semi-mature trees and tens of thousands of new plants and hedgerows; bug hotels and bat houses; wildlife ponds; green roofs to capture and re-harvest rainwater; solar panels and air source heat pumps
* The shirts that players wear on the pitch and the replica jerseys for fans to buy are constructed with 100% recycled polyester fabric, which is made from recycled plastic bottles
* Players arrived at the stadium on coaches powered by green biodiesel which helped lower squad travel emissions by over 80%
* Fans walked 36,000 miles and drove 225,000 miles in electric or hybrid cars to and from the game
* Repair and re-use kits and old sports equipment
* Playing in kits made out of bamboo, a relatively eco-friendly crop that needs significantly less water to grow than cotton, before it decided to go all-out on the sustainable tech this year with playing gear made from recycled plastic and waste coffee grounds from a local roasters
* The athletes’ village will be built from locally sourced wood and the event vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells
* The electricity will come from renewable sources, including onsite solar generation, and 99% of everything used during the event will be recycled. Apart from drinking water, all the water used at the games will either be rainwater or recycled.
* Over 135 tonnes of manure collected from competing horses was used to generate 150 megawatt hours of electricity. Fortum HorsePower, the company behind the scheme, collects manure from 4,300 horses across Finland to generate sustainable energy for local grids.
* All food served to fans during the game came in compostable containers
* Waste that could not be recycled was sent to a trash-to-energy plant to generate steam to heat buildings in downtown Minneapolis.
* Sustainable way to replace its seats. Most were sold as souvenirs or recycled and their replacements are made from 100% recycled plastic – 10% of it recovered from the oceans.
* The stadium has seats made using recycled plastic from the town’s own waste, contributing to a circular economy.
* The club’s ground is powered by solar panels and features water recycling
* Garlic, is used as a natural & organic way of killing nematodes, a parasite that loves to feed on juicy grass roots
* New system of steaming the pitch which kills these unwelcome visitors, reducing the need to use products and chemicals
* Switch to 100% green electricity, supplied by a network of solar farms and anaerobic digestion plants
* Recycles 80% of matchday waste with all collected food waste sent to an anaerobic digestion plant
* Regularly send food to local charities help those in need
* Electric cylinder lawnmower
* Stitched, hybrid pitch
* New stadium built entirely from sustainable local timber.
* Organic pitch, maintained without use of pesticides and herbicides.
* Collect rainwater from beneath the pitch to use for irrigation
* Sky achieved a 70% reduction in emissions from the Sky Sports production crew covering the match
* All outside broadcast generators to run on Biofuel, to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels when bringing you the very best of live sport
* Reducing, where possible, the amount of equipment and the number of people we travel to sporting events to capture games. Less carbon, but the same unbeatable coverage.
* https://www.edie.net/sky-sports-news-certified-as-carbon-neutral/
* Sky0 sustainability in sport
* Sky0
* ECB ended its sponsorship deals with Kia
* Wimbledon ended its sponsorship deals with Jaguar Land Rover
* England Rugby ended its sponsorship deals with British Airways and Mitsubishi
* Irish Rugby ended its sponsorship deals with Aer Lingus and Volkswagen
* Welsh Rugby Union ended its sponsorship deals with Isuzu and Total
* FA Cup is sponsored by LG not by Emirates.

#### **Outside UK sport**

* All global sporting federations and their national members, and all professional sports leagues and tours need to sign the UN Sport for Climate Action Framework.
* At a minimum, all signatories must commit, within 1 year of signing, to draw up and publish a comprehensive 10-year plan that will ensure that their own operations and that of their sport, including spectator travel, are carbon zero by 2030.
* These documents need to be drawn up to a standard of at least the detail of World Athletics, setting very clear annual targets and steps to achieve them. Presidents and CEOs need to take personal responsibility for their delivery.
* This requires an entirely new level of monitoring and reporting from sports bodies which must be externally reviewed by an independent body created and funded by the global sports industry.
* After 2030, any global sports events or tours that are not zero carbon should be cancelled or postponed until they are. Sports federations that are not zero carbon should be excluded from the Olympics. National federations that had not made sufficient client progress toward cutting carbon emissions could be excluded from international competition by their sports federations.
* The leading professional and commercial tours and leagues should do the same, and membership of that tour or that league, for clubs and franchises, should become dependent on them doing the same as well. Progress on carbon reduction could be part of the annual audit that clubs undergo and a precondition of their participation. Host venues for tours like the European Golf Tour or the ICC’s test matches and ODI competitions, for example, should make similar demands on their hosts and events.
* The same strictures should be applied to any company that wants to be a sponsor or broadcaster of any signatory to the framework. They need to sign up, have a carbon zero commitment, and show how their business, including all the activation events and advertising conducted around sports, is reducing and compensating for its emissions.
* It goes without saying that global sport needs to wean itself of petro-chemical and aviation sponsorship as soon as possible.
* Nonetheless, across the board, there needs to be a recognition that if international sport is going to continue in anything close to its current form, it will be using a lot of aviation. Fewer tournaments and competitions, held less often, might be part of the solution. Either way, the sports world must commit to the very highest standards of carbon offset programme for their own and their spectators emissions.
* Government and other public bodies, from sports ministries to the EU, that fund sporting organisations must make carbon zero plans a precondition of any future monies.
* All sports federations, global and national, need to survey the impact of climate change on grassroots sport, and establish funding mechanisms to support its response to these problems. Perhaps most important of all, the global sports industry needs to reprioritise grassroots and local sport (low carbon) over professional and global sport (high carbon).
* FIFA ended their sponsorship deals with Kia, Hyundai and Qatar Airways
* UEFA ended their sponsorship deals with Nissan and Expedia
* NHL ended their sponsorship deals with Honda
* MLF ended their sponsorship deals with Audi
* ICC Cricket World Cup will not be sponsored by Emirates and Nissan
* Badminton World Federation ended its sponsorship deals with Total
* International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation ended its sponsorship deals with
* International Cycling Union ended its sponsorship deals with Mercedes-Benz
* International Luge Federation ended its sponsorship deals with BMW
* International Ski Federation ended its sponsorship deals with Audi
* International Ice Hockey Federation ended its sponsorship deals with ESSO, Air Canada and Chevrolet
* International Modern Pentathlon Union ended its sponsorship deals with Lufthansa
* World Archery Federation ended its sponsorship deals with Hyundai
* European Professional Golfers’ Association Tour ended its sponsorship deals with Emirates and BMW

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