Large Cities Climate Leadership Group
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The Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, also known as the C40 Cities (and originally as the C20 Cities) is a group of cities working to reduce urban carbon emissions and to adapt to climate change. It believes it has an important role to play as cities contain around 50% of the world's population, consume 75% of the world's energy, and produce 80% of its greenhouse gases.[1] The Group's secretariat is based in London.
The group was founded after a meeting of delegations from more than 20 cities at the October 2005 World Cities Leadership Climate Change Summit, organised by the Mayor of London.
On August 1, 2006, the Group signed a memorandum of understanding with the William J. Clinton Foundation's Climate Initiative[2], under which the Clinton Foundation will provide technical and communications support.
The Group held their first summit in 2005 in London and their second in 2007 in New York. [3] At the second summit, 13 cities joined the group.[4] The third summit will be held May 18-21, 2009 in Seoul.
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[edit] Membership
[edit] Affiliate cities
Amsterdam
Austin
Barcelona
Copenhagen
Curitiba
Heidelberg
New Orleans
Portland
Rotterdam
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Seattle
Stockholm
[edit] See also
- ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
- Climate change
- Global warming
- Mitigation of global warming
- Adaptation to global warming
- Energy conservation
- Renewable energy
- London Climate Change Agency
- World energy resources and consumption
[edit] External links
- C40 cities official web site
- 1st World Cities Leadership Climate Change Summit, London, 2005
- 2nd World Large Cities Climate Summit, New York, 2007
- 3rd Large Cities Climate Summit, Seoul, 2009
- New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg's 2007 Keynote Address.
- Kirsten Engel and Barak Orbach, Micro-Motives for State and Local Climate Change Initiatives, Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 2, pp. 119-137, 2008
[edit] In the media
- October 4, 2005, BBC, Cities swap expertise on combating climate change
[edit] References
- ^ Cities and climate change, C40 Cities, published 2007, accessed 2007-05-15
- ^ Former President Clinton launches climate change initiative, Mayor of London, published 2006-08-02, accessed 2007-05-15
- ^ World's mayors hold climate change summit, Yahoo News, published 2007-05-15, accessed 2007-05-15
- ^ Who's Coming, New York City Climate Summit, published 2007, accessed 2007-05-15
