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LEN Sharing Best Practice Workshop

23rd July 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

On 13 June, CRP held its Low Emission Neighbourhoods (LENs): Sharing Best Practice Workshop at Westminster City Council’s flagship premises on 64 Victoria Street.

The workshop was attended by over 50 delegates from London Local Authorities, BIDs and Business Management Companies.

From the workshop 10 LEN Top Tips were developed and are now available online here.

Many thanks to Councillor Karen Scarborough, Lead Member for Air Quality and the Environment for Westminster City Council, for hosting the event. Thanks also to our partners, speakers and funders the Greater London Authority, Westminster City Council, City of London Corporation, Team London Bridge, Better Bankside and Northbank BID.

National Clean Air Day and new CRP Video

23rd July 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

As part of Clean Air Day 2019, CRP proudly premiered its Clean Air Route Finder. The video showcases a side-by-side comparison of a polluted and non-polluted route from London St Pancras to Euston Station. The Clean Air Route Finder, designed in partnership with King’s College London and the Mayor of London, was a runner-up in the Sustainable Mobility category at last year’s Sustainable City Awards.

Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIW16KjgnuA

For more information on Clean Air walking routes please visit: https://www.cleanairroutes.london/

EV Infrastructure Task Force Delivery Plan

23rd July 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

As a member of the Mayor’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Taskforce, CRP were glad to be attending the launch of Taskforce Delivery Plan on 17 June at the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

The Delivery Plan provides for a coordinated approach to EV infrastructure increase across London, thereby supporting the Mayor’s ambition of London becoming a zero-emission city.

CRP’s Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer joined a panel discussion chaired by Graham Kenyon, technical author of the EV Charging Code of Practice of the Institute of Engineering and Technology.

Tanja outlined CRP’s ongoing commitment to the implementation of the Delivery Plan, working with its partners and through its business engagement activities to support new EV charge points as well as the uptake of existing points and upcoming charging hubs.

For further information, please contact CRP’s Principal Programme Manager Tanja Dalle-Muenchmeyer.

Climate Action Week

23rd July 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has declared a climate emergency. As part of London’s response to this, the first ever London Climate Action Week was held from 1-8 July.

The week saw artists, businesses and the public come together to explore clean energy solutions, zero-emissions transport and campaigns for stronger legislation to keep global temperature increases within 1.5 degrees centigrade.

150 events took place in London throughout the week including a Green Schools summit bringing together over 200 young people, a Green Finance Summit, hosted by our partner the City of London Corporation and Nature Live at the National History Museum.

 

Clean Air Thames

23rd July 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

CRP has started planning the initial stages of the Clean Air Thames project with the Port of London Authority, the City of London Corporation, and others.  The project will be supported by a £500,000 grant from the Mayor’s Air Quality Fund.  The project aims to retrofit 11 vessels to reduce their emissions, especially particulate matter and nitrogen oxides.

One of the next steps will be to finalise the requirements for operators and vessels who wish to apply for funding.  Details will be shared as they become available with a formal announcement at the Greening Inland Shipping Conference on 10 September 2019.

For further information please contact CRP’s Project Manager Sefinat Otaru.

[Image source: Diliff,  https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8926856, accessed 22/07/2019]

Prudential Ride London Road Closures

17th July 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

Prudential Ride London, now entering its seventh year, returns to London and Surrey on 3 and 4 August 2019. TfL are working closely with the London & Surrey Cycling Partnership (LSCP), who deliver the event, to manage the impacts on the network and the travelling public.

Over the event weekend, roads will be closed in central London on Saturday 3 August and in east, west, central and south west London and parts of Surrey on Sunday 4 August. A full list of closures, including expected reopening times can be found on TfL’s website.

For those making or receiving deliveries at this time, given the large-scale road closures, delivery and servicing trips are likely to be affected by congestion and increased journey times. Therefore, it is important that businesses plan ahead and wherever possible try to either retime deliveries to outside the road closure times or reroute journeys to avoid the affected areas.

LSCP also have detailed information about the event on their website: www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk

CRP is recruiting!

15th July 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

If you are passionate about making a long-lasting change by making central London a nicer and healthier place to live, work and visit, then take a look at the two exciting vacancies we are recruiting to:

The closing date for applications for both roles is: 31st July 2019

London Climate Action Week Launch

4th July 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

Monday, 1 July 2019 – Cross River Partnership attended the launch of London’s Inaugural Climate Action Week at London City Hall. With opening speeches from HRH Prince of Wales, and Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and engaging speakers, the event was an excellent lead-in to more than 150 registered events between July 1 and July 8.

During his speech, Sadiq Khan highlighted some of the initiatives London’s has carried out to address climate change including the Ultra Low Emission Zone, providing £500m for low carbon solutions, freezing TfL bus fares, providing EV infrastructure, and divesting from fossil fuels (in partnership with C40 Cities).  He also warned against “climate delayers”, decision makers who acknowledge that climate change is a problem but still do nothing about it.

There were two panels, each moderated by Polly Billington, Director of UK100.

The first panel focussed on a community driven approach to tackling climate change. Speakers included Dr Afsheen Rashid MBE (Repowering London), Fatima-Zahra Ibrahim (IPPR Environmental Justice Panel member), Dr Husna Ahmed (Global One) and Sam Gurney (Trades Union Congress).  They discussed the significance of local solutions to global issues and the need to bring communities to the table when forming policies.  Decision makers were advised to enable conversations and collaboration between communities and local authorities, focus on working with people, and foster green industries.

The second panel looked at what business and government can do to address climate change. Comprised of Shirley Rodrigues (London Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy), Nick Mabey (E3G), Helen Hayes (MP, Dulwich and West Norwood), Mike Thompson (Committee on Climate Change) and Nancy Mahon (Estée Lauder). This panel stressed the need to move from research and white papers to taking action.  “Linking” or “joining” was common theme, too – from creating a joined-up city that connects economic action to social and cultural action to linking individual actions to the global agenda.  Also, it is as important to hold businesses accountable as it is to bring them earlier into the policy making process. Three headlines from the recent report from the Committee on Climate Change on how to reach Net Zero include using policy to drive intent/actions; ramping business and innovation, where innovation goes beyond technology, to newer, better ways of doing things; and people.

A brief but lively Q&A session followed the discussions that touched on fossil fuels, consumerism, canopy cover and establishing a city-wide common purpose amongst individual boroughs.

Shirley Rodrigues provided closing remarks urging attendees to spread the word and participate in events taking place around the city over the week.

(Image source: https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/climate-change/london-climate-action-week)

Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Delivery Plan

24th June 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

Earlier this month CRP, as a member of the Mayor of London’s Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Taskforce, attended the launch of the new EV Infrastructure Delivery Plan. To meet the aim of London becoming a zero-carbon city by 2050, the plan highlights how there are currently 20,000 Electric Vehicles in London, 1,700 electric taxis and Europe’s largest electric bus fleet, 175 rapid charge points and 1,100 lamp post charging points. In addition, the plan discusses strategies going forward, for example, the delivery of London’s first rapid charging hub, the publication of charge point and EV guidances, and the creation of a new online tool/ ‘heat mapping’ to identify energy grid constraints.

To read the full delivery plan please click here.

 

Mayor of London’s Night Time Enterprise Zone

24th June 2019 / Posted by CRP Team

The Mayor of London is looking for a partner borough to deliver an Night Time Enterprise Zone (NTEZ) pilot project with £75,000 of grant funding available, which boroughs can bid for. This funding was recommended in January’s Think Night report, published by the London Night Time Commission.

The purpose of the pilot project is to prove the concept of the NTEZ. It will take place in one high street, including a series of evaluated pilot activities and will inform future policy across London. It is hoped that the project will help revive the high street, give Londoners better access to their city after 6 pm and support good work standards at Night.

To apply and for more information please click here. Applications close on the 9th of August.

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