March 11, 2014 – The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group is responsible for a near doubling of climate actions by their 63 member cities since 2011. Member cities, the world’s largest, have implemented 8,000 climate actions in the last three years. It will come as no surprise that the vast majority of member cities are coastal. You can learn more about C40 at c40.org. The organization’s most recent international meeting took place in Johannesburg, South Africa. Three new cities were welcomed to the ranks at that meeting: Cape Town, Dar es Salaam, and Nairobi. Michael Bloomberg presides over the C40 board, and plans to work closely with UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon in creating support for a UN Summit on Climate Change in September. Bloomberg, of course, just retired as mayor of New York City after 12 years on the job. During his time in office, greenhouse gas emissions declined 19%. “Mayors don’t have time to debate po...
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