Name: Low emission zones: 6 Minute English
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T06:30:16.000Z
Duration: 6 min 35 s
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Sam: Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning

Sam: In this programme, we’re discussing low

useful items of vocabulary along the way.

amount of, usually, gas, that is sent out

into the air and harms the environment –

it’s pollution. And a low emission zone is

have them - most vehicles, including cars

standards or their drivers must pay a daily

charge to drive within the zone – or they

Sam: Exactly. It’s all about making the air

today is about one UK city which recently

first ‘net zero’ city - placing their

Neil: Ah yes, I’ve heard about this and I’m

cities, like Beijing, Paris and Madrid have

Sam: Let’s hear from an expert on this -

of York. He spoke to BBC Radio 4’s Inside

mind, but they shouldn't be the only thing

Neil: Alastair Lewis mentions ‘targets’.

These are official levels of something that

mind’ – that means to concentrate on one

Neil: But, while setting a target to cut air

pollution is good – it has health benefits

– we shouldn’t just focus on meeting the

incentive should be that we are improving

Sam: And an 'incentive' is something that

So, I think it’s accepted that creating

not drive into cities or to, at least, drive

Neil: And, of course, changing to electric-

There’s more of an incentive to do this

Alastair Lewis: One has to accept that air

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