The UK’s bus and coach sector has achieved its best performance since 2008, with deliveries of 8,390 new buses and coaches joining UK roads in 2024. These deliveries have been driven by the UK’s dominance in zero-emission buses — which is still the biggest market in Europe, with deliveries up by over a third this year.
Ashford Borough Council are introducing ground source heat pumps into their social housing for the first time with 74 homes across Appledore and Charing set to benefit.
A new global study has quantified the huge health benefits of stronger policies to reduce road transport pollution, claiming that without such policies, premature deaths linked to air pollution from road transport – specifically PM2.5 and ozone – will rise from 193,000 in 2023 to nearly 278,000 by 2040.
New reearch undertaken in Belgium has anaylsed the benefits of low emissions zones in Antwerp and Brussels, finding that they have not only improved air quality levels but appear to have had a positive impact on the use of anti-diabetes medication.