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The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has today published his response to the government’s consultation on new legal limits for air pollution, arguing the latest target ‘condemns another generation of children’ to grow up with asthma and other health issues.

For developing nations in the global south with coal reserves, their use seems like an obvious solution to the production of cheap energy. But as the dirtiest fossil fuel, coal is not only contributing to increasing levels of atmospheric carbon and rises in global temperatures, but also putting the health of citizens at risk through urban pollution and reductions in air quality.