Singapore declares war on all new diesel car and taxi sales from 2025. The ban follows a global trend that has a growing number of countries pledging to ban fossil-fuel car sales in five to 10 years.
"For too many decades, we have allowed cars to pollute the air that our children and families breathe. Californians shouldn’t have to worry if our cars are giving our kids asthma", the governor has announced.
Denmark will ban gas and diesel cars by 2030 - ten years earlier than the UK, and it will aim instead to get 1 million electric or hybrid cars on the roads by then.
The highest court in Germany has ruled that cities can ban older diesel vehicles immediately, paving the way for swift action against air pollution.
Rome, Italy just announced plans to ban oil-burning cars within the city by 2024. That’s huge news, because roughly two-thirds of new cars sold last year in Italy were diesel.
The Federal Administrative Court ruled this week that German cities can legally ban diesel vehicles.
This US state already has ambitious plans to get 1.5 million zero-emission cars on its roads by 2025.
Sri Lanka's government will phase out in the next eight years its fleet of diesel and petrol vehicles including buses, and move to electric or hybrid models.
Oxford in the UK wants to become the world's first carbon emission-free city by 2035, with a plan to ban all petrol and diesel vehicles from the city centre over the next 20 years.
The devolved government of Scotland announced on Tuesday its plans to ban new gasoline and diesel cars by 2032.
The country’s ambitious plans to stem climate change will be a challenge.
India is taking on its air pollution problem by announcing a daring plan to eliminate petrol and diesel powered cars from the roads by 2030.
I can almost smell the cleaner air now.
Mayors of Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City agreed to ban diesel vehicles in these cities in the next decade
