Cities Are Scolding Countries at UN Climate Conference To Cut Emissions (vice.com)

A reader shares a report: An alliance of major cities including New York, Toronto, and London challenged nation states attending the United Nations climate talks in Bonn, Germany this week "to kick dirty carbon to the curb" and immediately "commit and work straightaway towards carbon neutrality, 100 percent renewable energy, zero-waste and zero-carbon." The Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance is a new collaboration of 20 international cities (other members include Washington DC, San Francisco, Oslo, and Sydney). All are striving for carbon neutrality and cutting greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050. "Dirty fuels and climate disruption are killing and displacing millions of citizens around the world," the Alliance stated in a strongly-worded letter sent to every country's delegation at climate talks, known as COP 23. "Cities are on the frontline of climate impacts. We see the urgency of climate action and need nation-states to be as committed as we are," Johanna Partin, the director of the Alliance and former advisor to the mayor of San Francisco, told Motherboard by phone.

Comments

That's nice...

[Penguinisto]

...so how many of these cities are willing to spend their own treasuries to make that happen, or do they not know that a huge quorum of the nations they scold have an average GDP smaller than any one city listed in that 'league'? Solar panels and wind turbines ain't cheap, you know.

Wealthy urban elites say

[Kohath]

Let them eat cake.

Re:Solution

[HornWumpus]

Just make shit up. It's what we expect of you.

Re:Solution

[HornWumpus]

You just pulled 'most' out of your ass and everybody knows it.