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Executive Summary
August 2007

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August 2007
 
       

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Cities are crucial to combating climate change and need to be engaged by national leaders to achieve targets set in Copenhagen, the Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore MP said today.

“Cities make up two per cent of the earth’s surface but they now account for 80 per cent of emissions. If measures like those developed in Sustainable Sydney 2030 were implemented in all of Australia’s major cities, we would achieve 40 percent of the current national emissions reduction target,” commented Ms Moore, the Chair of the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors (CCCLM).
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Independent research has supported the strong emphasis that capital cities have placed on short-term actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A briefing paper prepared by the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) on behalf of the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors (CCCLM) ahead of the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen confirms cities are crucial to achieving sizeable carbon emissions abatement over the next decade.   Read More...

Australia’s capital cities have joined with major regional cities Newcastle, Geelong and the Gold Coast to form a Major City Working Group that will dedicate itself to ensure a sustainable future for Australia’s cities.   Read More...

Australia’s capital cities have committed to slash greenhouse gas emissions in collaboration with other parties.

The commitment follows new findings that reveal the cities can lower greenhouse gas emissions by a collective 57 megatonnes (million tonnes) a year by 2020.   Read More...

The Lord Mayors of Australia’s capital cities have saluted the commitment of the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, to a “new era” of working together on initiatives aimed at building national prosperity.

The Lord Mayors, making up the Council of Capital City Lord Mayors (CCCLM), met with Mr Rudd and Infrastructure Minister, Anthony Albanese, in Canberra today to discuss a formal mechanism for capturing and implementing the new partnership arrangement.

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