Fuels

The summer of 2020 saw local authorities around the country install temporary bicycle lanes, but why did some of them hit the brakes? Jamie Hailstone investigates. 

The links between emissions from transport (road, shipping and aviation), biomass and stubble burning, and agricultural spraying and climate change are clearly established. So too is the fact that poor urban air quality is a leading cause of respiratory illnesses and premature deaths, and there is ’emerging evidence that it is also associated with dementia and Type 2 diabetes.’ Commonwealth countries have been fighting back on both of these fronts.