Climate Action in Megacities: C40 Cities Baseline and Opportunities

Abstract : The 40 participating members of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group represent 297 million people and generate 18% of global GDP and 10% of global carbon emissions. Collectively they have taken 4,734 actions to tackle climate change. Over three quarters of these actions (74%) have been implemented since the C40 was founded in 2005. This report is a comprehensive analysis of what the mayors of the C40 participating cities are doing to tackle climate change. Based on a survey of member cities, it analyses the powers, actions and opportunities of the world's 40 premier cities to reduce carbon emissions and adapt to global warming. It demonstrates that C40 cities have many of the powers necessary to mitigate climate change, and adapt to it. It also demonstrates that the mayors of C40 cities are already using those powers to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – actions that have accelerated rapidly due to the collaboration achieved between cities in the C40. Most importantly, this report demonstrates that the C

Year of publication : 2011
Language : English
Author : Arup
Organization : C40
Document type : Assessment/Analysis Study
Themes : adaptation, Buildings, energy efficiency, GHG reporting, infrastructure, transport, urban planning, waste
Peer reviewed : No
Free of Charge : Yes
ISBN : -
Keywords : Cities , Powers , Policies , Inventory