Four major cities to ban diesel vehicles by 2025

16.01.2017

Four major global metropoles are planning to ban diesel-powered transport by 2025 in favour of walking and cycling to improve air quality in the cities.
The mayors of Paris, Mexico City, Madrid, and Athens made the commitments in Mexico at a biennial C40 meeting of city leaders.
Concerns about the use of diesel fuel have grown in recent years and the World Health Organisation, for example, says that ambient air pollution causes three million deaths worldwide annually.
Diesel engines contribute to the problem in two key ways - through the production of particulate matter (PM) and nitrogen oxides (NOx).
PM can find its way into citizen’s lungs and contribute to cardiovascular illness and death, while NOx can ground level ozone that can cause breathing difficulties even in people without a history of respiratory problems.
At the C40 meeting in Mexico, the leaders of the four large cities with known air quality problems declared that they would "commit to doing everything in their power to incentivise the use of electric, hydrogen and hybrid vehicles."
"It is no secret that in Mexico City, we grapple with the twin problems of air pollution and traffic," the city's mayor, Miguel Ángel Mancera, told the BBC.
"By expanding alternative transportation options like our Bus Rapid Transport and subway systems, while also investing in cycling infrastructure, we are working to ease congestion in our roadways and our lungs."

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