Today, Birmingham is the first city outside London to introduce a Clean Air Zone, which involves a charge for people driving into the city centre if they have older, more polluting cars. Birmingham Green Party says the CAZ is an exercise in tackling air pollution sooner rather than later. Councillor Julien Pritchard says: “Years of […]
Will the council’s climate plan ambitions go up in smoke?
Birmingham City Council declared a climate emergency last year, yet they are still considering locking themselves into contracts for outdated, dirty technology that will make it impossible for the city to become carbon neutral quickly enough. Birmingham Green Party is strongly opposed to any extension of the contract to keep the Tyseley incinerator going beyond […]
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