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• Reference: 2024/0545
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objective to “increase [London’s urban forest] by 10 per cent by 2050,” (p.167) what percentage increase in London’s canopy cover has been realised since 2018?

• Reference: 2024/0546
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objectives to create: a) 20 hectares of species-rich woodland, b) 50 hectares of flower-rich grassland, c) ten km of rivers and streams, and d) five hectares of reedbeds by 2025, (p.182), how many hectares of a), b), and d) and how many km of c) have been created since the launch of the...

• Reference: 2024/0547
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your statement that “by 2026 no biodegradable or recyclable waste will be sent to landfill” (p.25), from the most recent data available, could you tell me what percentage of biodegradable or recyclable waste is being sent to landfill? Please provide data broken down by households and businesses.

• Reference: 2024/0548
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

Thank you for your answer to my question 2023/1852, where you outlined how you are monitoring and reporting your progress towards your 2030 Net Zero target. In your Environment Strategy, you also set out a range of specific objectives that are not related to emissions. Regarding your objective to “work with TfL, boroughs, water companies and other landowners to, by 2030, switch 200 hectares of land from draining directly to conventional sewers or London’s watercourses to draining to SuDS” (p.366), how many hectares of London’s land are now drainable to SuDS?

• Reference: 2024/0549
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

What methods have you explored to stimulate demand for home retrofit among owner-occupiers and could you share your findings and plans to roll any of these out?

• Reference: 2024/0550
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

What assessment have you made of the merits of community-led, whole-street approaches to retrofit, like the Future Fit Streets programme being run by South East London Community Energy, and have you explored how you can support the development of more of these initiatives? [ref https://www.futurefithomes.org/futurefitstreets]

• Reference: 2024/0551
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

What work is being done via free school meal funding to move schools towards providing plant-based diets as they reduce carbon emissions, bills and improve nutrition?

• Reference: 2024/0552
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 22 February 2024

When is the current contract with the company operating the GLA catering in City Hall up for renewal?

• Reference: 2024/0383
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

How are you making sure your climate policies are shaped by grassroots engagement?

• Reference: 2024/0385
• Question by: Zack Polanski
• Meeting date: 18 January 2024

The Government has decided not to mandate that all newly let properties must have an EPC rating of C or higher by 2025. What assessment have you made of the impact this decision will have on Londoners in the private rented sector, and how have you been lobbying Government to reverse this decision?