Air pollution is estimated to have killed 1.8 million people in 2019 alone (Nick Ansell/PA)
(Picture: PA Wire)London’s toxic air remains a silent killer. A leading contributor to strokes, asthma and cancers, it can be attributed to an estimated 4,000 deaths in the capital in 2019. That is why Mayor Sadiq Khan is right to treat improving our city’s poor air quality as an urgent priority.
Traditional internal combustion engine vehicles are the leading cause of London’s air pollution, generating half of the nitrogen oxides and particulate matter that clog our air and get into our lungs. They cause congestion — costing the capital billions of pounds a year — and by emitting carbon dioxide, contribute to climate change.
