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Susan Hall, the Conservative Party candidate for London mayor, has opposed key climate policies, backed the reintroduction of fracking and promoted articles online which spread climate science denial, DeSmog can reveal.She has been accused of trying to “undermine” climate science when the impact of human-caused climate change is making headlines amid a summer heatwave in Europe.Hall, who is a London Assembly member and was selected as the Conservatives’ London mayoral candidate last week, has vowed to reverse the expansion of the capital’s ultra-low emission zone (ULEZ) on her “first day” in office and cancel all fines issued in the expanded zone. The Conservative Party has made opposing the ULEZ expansion a central part of its electoral strategy, deploying it in last week’s successful attempt to retain its Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat in west London. In a series of posts on Twitter, Hall has called for the UK’s emissions-cutting net zero targets to be “delayed” and for the lifting of the ban on fracking for shale gas. She has also promoted articles and comments that reject the role of human-made greenhouse gas emissions on climate change. The world’s leading body of climate scientists, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has warned about false and misleading information that “undermines climate science and disregards risk and urgency” at a time when there is “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all”. The Conservative government also faces a fresh lawsuit over its climate strategy, after its revised plan – published in March – admitted that it would fall short of meeting its emissions goals. Zoë Garbett, the Green Party’s candidate for Mayor of London told DeSmog: “It’s extremely concerning that the Conservatives have selected a mayoral candidate who is not only actively campaigning against cleaner air for Londoners but is also willing to try and undermine the climate science which clearly shows the impact humans have had.”Garbett added that it was a sign of “sheer desperation” from the Conservative Party, which she claimed would rather “pick culture fights than help to deliver the measures that would really make a difference for the millions of people living here”.A spokesperson for Hall told DeSmog that she supports net zero and the scientific consensus on human-caused climate change – backtracking on Hall’s previous online statements.