Smog levels have been above
limits for 12 days in Milan and more measures including a halt
to diesel cars up to class four will be in force from tomorrow,
sources said Monday.
Milan meanwhile sealed an anti-smog pact with 11 other global
metropolises.
Paris, London, Barcelona, Quito, Vancouver, Mexico City,
Copenaghen, Seattle, Cape Town, Los Angeles and Auckland also
signed up for the pact, in which they pledge to convert a major
part of their territory into zero-emissions zones by 2030.
The deal between the twelve mayors, including Milan's
Giuseppe Sala, was reached within the framework of the annual
summit in Paris of the so-called C40 'Together4Climate', the
network composed of 91 global metropolises currently chaired by
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, who two weeks ago voiced a desire to
see petrol-fuelled cars disappear from the Paris streets by
2030.
Today, at the end of the summit, the twelve committed
themselves to transforming their cities into "greener and
healthier" territories, and above all "without fossil-based
energy with an "important part" of "zero-emission zones", that
is zones in which internal combustion engines like diesel ones
will be banned from circulation.
High winds meanwhile improved the smog situation in Turin and
more measures expected tomorrow have ben put off.
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