For many years, Sadiq wasn’t fully aware of the dangers posed by air pollution, nor its connection with climate change. The World Health Organisation recently described air pollution as being ‘one of the greatest environmental risks to health. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. Doing that requires time, space, attention and energy, which are precisely the things our socially networked context makes purposely impossible. Tooting, Crouch End and Islington, all London postcodes with well-deserved reputations for being the home of GUARDIAN-reading Twitterati.

Now he portrays himself as an accomplished and pragmatic statesman who has harnessed London’s power to advance the climate agenda. Items are left in our cloakrooms at the owner’s risk, and we cannot accept any responsibility for loss or damage, from any cause, to these items. In 2021, 82 per cent of Londoners were concerned about climate change, with more than two-thirds saying their level of concern had risen in the last year.

Aged 43, now mayor of London Khan was unexpectedly diagnosed with adult-onset asthma, and so began his journey to becoming more educated about the dangers posed by air pollution and climate change. Payments made using National Book Tokens are processed by National Book Tokens Ltd, and you can read their Terms and Conditions here.

But with every year bringing more wildfires, extreme temperatures and flooding - and with around 4,000 people still dying prematurely from London's polluted air every year, with older, working class and ethnic minority Londoners most affected - there is so much more to do. This summer, I am reading or plan to read The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph. He states that through education, as well as personal asthma concerns, he realised the extent of the problem. Minouche Shafik is President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Ultimately, we, the creatures and life we share the planet with - and future generations - are one community. Then there’s a little childhood whimsy from Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem, and, to round off the list, the young adult fantasy The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr. The highest emissions are from planes and the underground, both things that Khan would prefer not to change.

Blending in anecdotes about his background and political career makes this journey of discovery feel genuinely real and relatable. Maxwell is a freelance journalist and this is her debut novel, focusing on motherhood in a way we rarely hear about in fiction, telling the story of a woman who has a baby alone using a sperm donor and her failure to bond instantly with her child. This readable and accessible part-manifesto, part-memoir details what led to his green policies as mayor including the ultra-low-emission zone. Scandalised, Sadiq underwent a political transformation that would see him become one of the most prominent global politicians fighting (and winning) elections on green issues. I’ve heard amazing things about These Impossible Things by Salma El-Wardany, so I want to read that too.

Thank goodness Sadiq is brave enough to confront the crisis with humility, authenticity, accessible expertise, and dare I say - a bit of much-needed humour and optimism! A drop-off point at the Royal Festival Hall (30 metres) has been created for visitors who are unable to walk from alternative car parks.

These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.Owing to an accident of geography then, your life span may not be equal to someone else in another area of the same city, simply owing to air pollution levels alone- and the impact of this is worse for the young with their developing lungs. Air pollution is killing people in London, and around the world, and it doesn’t have to be like this. He will also have to overcome changes to the electoral system that are expected to swing things in the direction of his (yet to be selected) Tory rival. That’s an enormous shame for obvious reasons, but it’s also a *major fail* for humanity in the face of the existential crisis that is climate change, which doesn’t care about who we vote for and why.