On Thursday, local authorities adopted a policy geared towards lowering the capital’s CO2 emissions at least by 20 percent over the next five years.
In an effort to improve air quality, the city council has committed to invest in public transport, sustainable energy sources, and expand the city’s central heating grid. The city is to purchase new low-emission buses, expand the city’s tram network, and shift transit traffic outside the city center. Some 5,000 buildings at Warsaw’s Praga district are to be linked to the central heating system .
A new system for checking air quality, the Warsaw Air Index will be introduced. If the index will keep too high level for several days, the city will introduce a special procedure. It will include, among others, more frequent streets’ cleaning, as far as the main dust source comes from the movement of vehicles, which causes increasing dust formed from conflicting tires.
The city councillors backed plans to set up a department in charge of environment protection in the municipal police. Among its tasks will be to make sure cheap coal or trash is not used to heat households. The department, taking in some 120 officers, is to start operating in January 2016.
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