Air Quality Initiatives

Clean Air Walking Routes

What can you do to reduce your exposure to air pollution?

The Northbank BID have worked in partnership with Kings College London to research levels of personal exposure to pollution during the commutes of workers in the Northbank area.

Instead of using the busy main streets, when walking around the Northbank, taking a quieter route can reduce personal exposure to pollution by up to 47%. This can have significant positive effects on long
term health and wellbeing.

Find a clean air walking route for your journey at: www.cleanairroutes.london

You can read a full article about the research carried out by King’s College and Northbank BID here.

Business Emissions

Business needs to play a key role in helping to try and tackle the air quality problem across the whole of London. These actions come in the forms of large-scale policy change and campaigns, but also through small easy to make changes, such as collating deliveries.

Below are a few suggestions for what businesses can do to help:

• Communications
  Raising the profile of air quality to your staff. This can be done through both policy change within your business or via an internal marketing campaign. Communicating ideas such as clean air walking routes, cycling / public transport, using click & collect. The more we spread the message the bigger the difference we will be able to see day in day out.
• Transportation
  Promoting walking & cycling as much as possible, and making it easier for staff to do this on their commute as much as possible.
• Built Environment
  Reducing your companies gas consumption is good way to reduce that amount of emissions your business is producing. Installing ultra-low NOx technologies when replacing boilers is a key solution when working to reduce the amount of pollutants in the area.
• Supply Chain
  Reducing the number of vehicles delivering to businesses in the Northbank is crucial, as a significant proportion the traffic in the Northbank area is caused by delivery vehicles. Consolidating deliveries is one step that can be taken, by having one supplier rather than several. Another could be to pressure your suppliers to use green and electric vehicles or move to a supplier who already does this.

At the Northbank BID we have created a set of 5 postcards which outline the steps that everyone can take to reduce the levels of emissions across the area. They are available to everyone so if your businesses would like to hand them out to staff members or display them internally contact info@thenorthbank.london to get a set for your business.