Mexico City Pact Requires Major World Cities to Climate Action Plans. By James Murray, Business Green, 11/22/10. “Officials from over 135 of the world's largest cities yesterday signed up to a wide-ranging climate change agreement at a summit in Mexico City, fuelling hopes that their national counterparts may be able to deliver similar progress at the UN's upcoming climate change talks in Cancun. The Mexico City Pact requires signatories to formally adopt climate action plans, develop mechanisms for recording greenhouse gas emissions, and adopt legislation that helps to curb emissions. Cities are also required to publically report on their progress each year to the carbon cities climate registry (CCCR) at the Bonn Centre for Local Climate Action and Reporting.
“Many of the world's largest cities signed up to the agreement, Buenos Aires, Bogota, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Paris and Vancouver to name but a few. Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of the Mexico City and chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change, who hosted the third conference of the United Cities and Local Governments, kicked off the agreement last week with a pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the badly polluted Mexican capital by around 14%.”
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