Target won’t be met until at least 2050 and drivers will likely have bought cleaner cars without clean air scheme, report claims
Sadiq Khan’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) will not help to reach his goal of achieving net zero by 2030, leading independent experts have warned.
They argued that the number of non-compliant cars is likely to fall only by a relatively “small number” and would likely have happened anyway because of new industry standards.
Using Ulez to achieve net zero would take “more than a century”, said one of the experts, who have produced a new report at Oxford Economics, the world’s foremost independent economic advisory firm.
On Tuesday, the Mayor of London introduced the controversial scheme, with motorists in Greater London paying £12.50 a day if their vehicles do not meet strict emissions standards.