Shirley Rodrigues was appointed as London's Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy in October 2016. Previously, she oversaw a global climate change grants portfolio at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), developing their cities and climate strategy. In other senior environmental roles, she devised and delivered a range of environmental policies and programs in London, nationally, and internationally.
She is now working to deliver the Mayor’s vision of making London greener, fairer, and healthier through implementing his London Environment Strategy. This includes ambitious programs to reduce air pollution across London, including implementing the world’s first Ultra Low Emission Zone and greening and rewilding the city. Her key focus is to ensure London’s economic and social recovery from the impacts of COVID-19 is green and fair by tackling the climate and ecological emergency with the ambitious aim for London to be a net zero carbon city by 2030.