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posted by on Wednesday December 07 2016, @11:16AM   Printer-friendly
from the but-i-like-soot dept.

The Guardian has a report which says that four of the world's biggest cities are to ban diesel vehicles from their centres within the next decade, as a means of tackling air pollution, with campaigners urging other city leaders to follow suit.

The mayors of Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City announced plans on Friday to take diesel cars and vans off their roads by 2025.

[...] "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.

Miguel Ángel Mancera, mayor of Mexico City, said increasing investments in public transport would also help clean the city's air, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Giorgos Kaminis, mayor of Athens, said his goal was to remove all cars from the city centre. The city authorities will also work with national governments and manufacturers, and promote electric vehicles and cleaner transport.

Recent research has uncovered the scale of the problem, with 3 million premature deaths a year attributed to dirty air, as well as millions of other illnesses, particularly in children.

We seem to have a bunch of bad choices for medium term transport - carbon dioxide or nitrogen dioxide, direct pollution (vehicles) or upstream pollution (power stations).

Diesel trucks and buses seem to have urea containers - maybe they are needed in more cars? Adblue retro-fits for everyone?


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  • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:26PM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Thursday December 08 2016, @12:26PM (#438696) Journal

    > you'll just get the diesel trucks converted to gasoline engines.

    Yeah, I think that's the whole point. Gasoline or electric.

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