Move is on to ban diesel cars from cities

 

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automotive lobbies are in uproar as European courts threaten to impose inner city driving bans. But a few cities have already moved to get diesel vehicles off their roads.
London. Oslo. Rome. Beijing. Shanghai. Ever more cities are introducing a variety of schemes to improve urban air quality by limiting the number or types of automobiles that can enter downtown zones, and the list is growing.

Diesel cars are among the worst sources of urban air pollution. In December 2016, the mayors of Paris, Madrid, Athens, and Mexico City announced plans to ban diesel cars and vans from their roads by 2025. And they're not alone – the number of cities moving toward green transport solutions is growing fast.
Diesel's challenge to health
In the wake of the automotive diesel emissions test cheating scandal that broke in September 2015, Europeans became aware that under normal driving conditions, nitrogen oxide emissions from many diesel vehicles exceeded legal limits by a factor of more than 10.
"Soot from diesel vehicles is among the big contributors to ill health and global warming,” according to Helena Molin Valdés, head of the United Nations' climate and clean air coalition.
The EU's health authority has reported that nitrogen oxides (NOx) and fine-particulate air pollution cause as many as 400,000 premature deaths every year in the European Union, and exacerbate a range of health risks. Europe's legal machinery has slowly rumbled into action as a result.
Some city governments, too, have begun to take action. There isn't a one-size-fits-all model being applied. Rather, different cities are using different measures. But policy levers are being set that could eventually see internal combustion engines in general, and diesel cars in particular, largely banished from inner cities.

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