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<p>The Government has adopted ambitious, legally binding international targets to
reduce emissions of five of the most damaging air pollutants (fine particulate matter,
ammonia, nitrogen oxides, sulphur dioxide, non-methane volatile organic compounds)
by 2020 and 2030.</p><p> </p><p>We have also put in place a £3.5 billion plan to reduce
harmful emissions from road transport. Local authorities have been granted funding
to undertake air quality improvement.</p><p> </p><p>We published our new and world
leading Clean Air Strategy, which is focused on broader emissions beyond road transport
and aims to cut air pollution and save lives. The World Health Organization (WHO)
has praised the Strategy as “an example for the rest of the world to follow”.</p><p>Through
the Clean Air Strategy, the Government has made a commitment to setting a new, ambitious,
long term target to reduce people’s exposure to PM<sub>2.5,</sub> and will publish
evidence early this year to examine what action would be needed to meet the WHO annual
mean guideline limit of 10 µg/m3. The Government has also committed to introducing
legislation to strengthen, simplify and update the legislative framework that applies
at the local level in order to both enable and drive further reductions in local concentrations
of air pollution. We have also outlined plans to enable greater local action to tackle
domestic burning by updating the current Smoke Control Area framework and providing
local authorities with more flexible, proportionate enforcement powers.</p>
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