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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.
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