‘Second time lucky for Boris’s green pledges?’

June 2012: Recent BusinessGreen article suggesting that the Mayor “in tacit recognition of these  failures [referring to previous pledges], Johnson has pledged to step up his efforts on improving the capital’s environment. As part of his plans to turn over a new green leaf, sustainable policies will be overseen from a higher level and will include the planting of thousands more street trees and scaling up of successful building energy efficiency programmes...As well as the expected plans to meet the targets he failed to meet last year in insulating homes and delivering a major electric vehicle recharging network, they also include launching a London-based Centre for Carbon Measurement by the end of next year, taking active steps to ensure the success of the Green Investment Bank, and lobbying government to include water efficiency in retrofit programmes.” Read the full piece here.