The City of London will continue to monitor air pollutants to ensure that air quality objectives and Limit Values are being met, and to assess the effectiveness of national, regional and local policies to reduce levels of pollution.
The City of London will ensure that, if possible, policies introduced to improve air quality will also have a positive benefit on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and policies introduced to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have a positive benefit on air quality.
Options for managing traffic in the City to improve air quality locally will be considered during 2011. Air quality impact assessments will be undertaken for transport schemes that involve significant changes to traffic type and movement on City roads.
The City of London will model the air quality impact of further controls over taxi emissions, the use of low emission buses on routes through the City and a central and inner London Low Emission Zone.
The City of London will investigate further options for using parking policy to promote the use of low emission vehicles in the Square Mile.
The City of London will continue to manage its vehicle fleet to reduce emissions of NOx, PM10 and CO2 year on year.
The City of London will continue to trial alternatively fuelled vehicles and increase the number of low emission vehicles in the fleet, where appropriate.
The City will continue to encourage its contractors to use low emission vehicles.
The City of London will work with public and private bodies to develop low emission procurement guidance.