A PEOPLE’S assembly on air quality is due to be held on Wednesday at the Islington Climate Emergency centre in Angel.

Organised by Islington Clean Air Parents in response to the “deadly impacts” of toxic air on health, it follows on from the recent government figures that revealed that air across Islington was twice as high as the World Health Organisation’s safety limits.

Expert speakers are set to talk about the sources of air pollution and how it affects our health as well as discussion around how to reduce air pollution.

Lucy Facer of ICAP said: “Air pollution is the number one environmental threat to human life – there is no safe level of air pollution. It will cause an estimated 81 deaths this year in Islington as well as heart disease, cancer, miscarriages, strokes, lung cancer and dementia. Air pollution is seriously damaging the health of our children, impairing learning, reducing lung size and is proven to cause heart palpitations in healthy teenagers. WHO set new air quality guidelines in September 2021 and in a city like London they will be hard to meet. In order to meet these targets we need significant change.”

The meeting, in the Angel Central shopping centre, begins at 7.30pm.