New diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution, the government is set to announce.
Ministers will also unveil a £255m fund to help councils tackle emissions from diesel vehicles, as part of a £3bn package of spending on air quality.
The government will later publish its clean air strategy, favouring electric cars, before a High Court deadline.
Campaigners said the measures were promising, but more detail was needed.
They had wanted government-funded and mandated clean air zones, with charges for the most-polluting vehicles to enter areas with high pollution, included in the plans.
After a protracted legal battle, the government was ordered by the courts to produce new plans to tackle illegal levels of harmful pollutant nitrogen dioxide.
Judges agreed with environmental campaigners that previous plans were insufficient to meet EU pollution limits.
Ministers had to set out their draft clean air strategy plans in May, with the final measures due by 31 July.
Local measures could include altering buses and other transport to make them cleaner, changing road layouts, altering features such as speed humps, and re-programming traffic lights to make vehicle-flow smoother.
It is thought ministers will consult on a scrappage scheme later this year, but there is no firm commitment.
Ministers have been wary of being seen to "punish" drivers of diesel cars, who, they argue, bought the vehicles after being encouraged to by the last Labour government because they produced lower carbon emissions.
The UK announcement comes amid signs of an accelerating shift towards electric cars instead of petrol and diesel ones, both at home and abroad:
The government plan will not contain a vehicle scrappage scheme, although this will be reconsidered in the autumn.
And it won't yet mandate councils to charge dirty vehicles to enter cities, unless they fail to solve pollution by other means - such as better public transport and restrictions barring diesel vehicles at peak times.
Ministers were ordered by the High Court to produce a comprehensive clean air strategy by the end of this month.
Today's plan is not comprehensive - it doesn't address pollution from construction, farming and gas boilers.
But ministers argue it is better to have a scheme for tackling the worst pollution hotspots rather than rushing out a botched comprehensive strategy.
Clean air campaigners say the government is using the 2040 electric cars announcement to distract from failings in its short-term policy.
Read more analysis from Roger
Air pollution is thought to be linked to about 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK, and transport also contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.
A government spokesman said poor air quality was "the biggest environmental risk" to public health in the UK.
"This government is determined to take strong action in the shortest time possible," he said.
"Our plan to deal with dirty diesels will help councils clean up emissions hotspots - often a single road - through common sense measures which do not unfairly penalise ordinary working people."
2020s switch-over
The measures are "good" in the long term but "not very effective" in the short, industry expert David Bailey said.
A switch-over to electric cars would likely come in the mid-2020s, he predicted, when electric cars would out-compete petrol and diesel ones on factors like cost.
"This sets a very clear direction of travel, but petrol and diesel cars won't exist by 2040," he said.
But he said more incentives were needed now, otherwise urban air quality would not improve.
Emissions hotspots
Environmental law firm ClientEarth welcomed the measures, but said it wanted to see more detail.
Its chief executive James Thornton said the law said ministers must bring down illegal levels of air pollution as soon as possible, so any measures must focus on that
Labour said the government was only acting after being taken to court.
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokeswoman Sue Hayman MP said the government had a "squeamish" attitude to clear air zones, and was shunting the problem on to local authorities.
"With nearly 40 million people living in areas with illegal levels of air pollution, action is needed now, not in 23 years' time," she said.

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Lalasticlala Mynd44 Ishilove Marpol

The odds are just steady rising against any pre-planned future planlessness on part of the Nigerian leadership structure; it appears the next few years or months would be all the Nigerian Project have to make and implement decisions and policies with far-reaching implications for the country's existence as a viably unified entity.

US is scheming by 2020 to be global numero-uno oil exporting country, the emirates are busy repositioning their entire economic frameworks, the Europeans & US are gradually reinventing their immigration policies to make a harder time of it for "escapees" from other less viable countries, the Asians are turning Africa into a dumping grounds, countries like kenya, ghana, s/africa are already rating higher op paper and in reality as better places to be, or even do anything, in Africa yet only Nigerian monkey-banana leaders and vegetable president keep deceiving themselves hooping to sow cassava and reap cocoyam.

All self-determination groups, the time for us to cut loose from these visionless bagas is now so that critical revenue, for developing our newly constituted nations, can still be generated from oil to assist other revenue streams while the oil is still useful as a marketable commodity instead of us hanging around these dog-in-the-manger Nigerian polithieficians with their persistent crookedness pussyfooting around while the country become a lesser and lesser viable socioeconomic entity daily.

We niger delta people are fools.

vanunu:
We niger delta people are fools.

shut up and so? So it is only mobile car that using oil,what about plane and ship?

We need to invest in people and infrastructure. it is now clear to all that human capital development is the main deal.

Baddestman:
shut up and so? So it is only mobile car that using oil,what about plane and ship?

LOL... If na only planes alone, who for answers Nigeria

rottennaija:


LOL... If na only planes alone, who for answers Nigeria

who nigeria epp,fvck nigeria.

centvin008:
New diesel and petrol cars and vans will be banned in the UK from 2040 in a bid to tackle air pollution, the government is set to announce.
Ministers will also unveil a £255m fund to help councils tackle emissions from diesel vehicles, as part of a £3bn package of spending on air quality.
The government will later publish its clean air strategy, favouring electric cars, before a High Court deadline.
Campaigners said the measures were promising, but more detail was needed.
They had wanted government-funded and mandated clean air zones, with charges for the most-polluting vehicles to enter areas with high pollution, included in the plans.
After a protracted legal battle, the government was ordered by the courts to produce new plans to tackle illegal levels of harmful pollutant nitrogen dioxide.
Judges agreed with environmental campaigners that previous plans were insufficient to meet EU pollution limits.
Ministers had to set out their draft clean air strategy plans in May, with the final measures due by 31 July.
Local measures could include altering buses and other transport to make them cleaner, changing road layouts, altering features such as speed humps, and re-programming traffic lights to make vehicle-flow smoother.
It is thought ministers will consult on a scrappage scheme later this year, but there is no firm commitment.
Ministers have been wary of being seen to "punish" drivers of diesel cars, who, they argue, bought the vehicles after being encouraged to by the last Labour government because they produced lower carbon emissions.
The UK announcement comes amid signs of an accelerating shift towards electric cars instead of petrol and diesel ones, both at home and abroad:
The government plan will not contain a vehicle scrappage scheme, although this will be reconsidered in the autumn.
And it won't yet mandate councils to charge dirty vehicles to enter cities, unless they fail to solve pollution by other means - such as better public transport and restrictions barring diesel vehicles at peak times.
Ministers were ordered by the High Court to produce a comprehensive clean air strategy by the end of this month.
Today's plan is not comprehensive - it doesn't address pollution from construction, farming and gas boilers.
But ministers argue it is better to have a scheme for tackling the worst pollution hotspots rather than rushing out a botched comprehensive strategy.
Clean air campaigners say the government is using the 2040 electric cars announcement to distract from failings in its short-term policy.
Read more analysis from Roger
Air pollution is thought to be linked to about 40,000 premature deaths a year in the UK, and transport also contributes to greenhouse gas emissions.
A government spokesman said poor air quality was "the biggest environmental risk" to public health in the UK.
"This government is determined to take strong action in the shortest time possible," he said.
"Our plan to deal with dirty diesels will help councils clean up emissions hotspots - often a single road - through common sense measures which do not unfairly penalise ordinary working people."
2020s switch-over
The measures are "good" in the long term but "not very effective" in the short, industry expert David Bailey said.
A switch-over to electric cars would likely come in the mid-2020s, he predicted, when electric cars would out-compete petrol and diesel ones on factors like cost.
"This sets a very clear direction of travel, but petrol and diesel cars won't exist by 2040," he said.
But he said more incentives were needed now, otherwise urban air quality would not improve.
Emissions hotspots
Environmental law firm ClientEarth welcomed the measures, but said it wanted to see more detail.
Its chief executive James Thornton said the law said ministers must bring down illegal levels of air pollution as soon as possible, so any measures must focus on that
Labour said the government was only acting after being taken to court.
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs spokeswoman Sue Hayman MP said the government had a "squeamish" attitude to clear air zones, and was shunting the problem on to local authorities.
"With nearly 40 million people living in areas with illegal levels of air pollution, action is needed now, not in 23 years' time," she said.

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Lalasticlala Mynd44 Ishilove Marpol

Lol
Heaters every where.
As far as they are still using fuel to drive cars in UK, I m ok by that
As far as they are still using parafin for jets I m still ok with that.
No be today we done dey hear am.
Edone tey!
God this oil wey you give niger delta and you no give yoloba , edey pain us well well o.
If this country breaks today, yoloba go dey like togo o, God you no eno good o
Why you want make yoloba suffer like this na.

supply will exceed demand.The cost of producing a barrel in Nigeria will definitely exceed global sales price. just like i told a friend, multinational oil firms promising investment in crude oil exploration in Nigeria are just deceiving us

vanunu:
We niger delta people are fools.

You, your entire family and generations are the fools.

HVACSpecialist:
We need to invest in people and infrastructure. it is now clear to all that human capital development is the main deal.

But our foolish politicians will never do the right thing.