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Fair Fuel APPG for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers August 2021 Page | 41 ABD, the Alliance of British Drivers, Environment spokesman Paul Biggs, was refused permission to give written or verbal evidence to the inquest. The UK signed up to EU legal limits for Particulate Matter and Nitrogen Dioxide but has not yet signed up to the lower WHO limits. Respiratory physician Professor Tony Frew pointed out in 2017 that "pollution levels are illegal because we made it illegal, not because it's dangerous." The verdict should not be used to curtail vehicle use, via punitive taxation, road space reallocation or roadblocks known as Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs), which increase congestion and therefore vehicle emissions. The deceased’s mother paradoxically has described the Lee Green LTN in Lewisham as "insane". We must promote the use of engine technology to further reduce vehicle emissions through science, including fuel additives, which the government is ignoring. DEFRA 2018 figures show that road transport emissions are only responsible for 31% of NOx, 11% of PM2.5 and 11% of PM10. But drivers are expected to pay 100% of all clean air zone charges. In 2019, 27% of net greenhouse gas emissions in the UK were estimated to be from the transport sector, 21% from energy supply, 17% from business, 15% from the residential sector and 10% from agriculture. The other 10% was attributable to the remaining sectors: waste management, industrial processes, the public sector and the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector. Why are these other polluters not fiscally punished? Emissions from transport fell by 1.8% (2.2 MtCO2e) in 2019, their second year of falls having previously risen since 2013. In 2020, territorial carbon dioxide emissions from the transport sector were 97.2 Mt, 19.6% (23.7 Mt) lower than in 2019, and 22.5% lower than in 1990. In 2020 transport accounted for 29.8% of all territorial carbon dioxide emissions, compared to 33.1% in 2019. And even worse, the Government’s continual ignorance to adopting proven low-cost pragmatic solutions to massively reduce vehicle emissions, must be challenged. It is a dereliction of their duty not to thoroughly investigate practical ways to improve air quality and to continue to use drivers as out-and-out cash cows. ” The UK’s CO 2 emissions fell by 2.9% in 2019, according to Carbon Brief analysis. This brings the total reduction to 29% over the past decade since 2010, even as the economy grew by a fifth. TRANSPORT EMISSIONS ARE FALLING, and we are all living longer too! Where is the connection that transport is affecting our health?