2009年12月16日星期三

Climate Alliance / Klima-Bündnis / Alianza del Clima e.V. - Solutions for Change: (How) bounded authorities are accidental to accommodated all-embracing altitude targets

During the UN Climate Summit cities and municipalities impressively presented how they abate their greenhouse gas emissions and actively abutment aggressive all-embracing altitude targets. Acting for the 1500 affiliate municipalities of the city-limits arrangement Climate Alliance Nicola Zingaretti, President of the arena of Rome, and Ulrike Janssen, Director of Climate Alliance, approved the already accomplished successes, the added goals and the measures all-important for implementation. Efficiency, e.g. cogeneration of calefaction and power, savings, e.g. with acquiescent houses, and renewable energies are the a lot of important keywords in the process.

Jochen Flasbarth, President of the German Federal Environmental Agency, explained the German altitude aegis targets and lined out the important role of bounded authorities: “Effective acknowledgment of altitude change calls for abbreviation all-around greenhouse gas emissions by 80 to 95 percent in developed countries until 2050, compared to the 1990 level. We will hardly accomplish this ambition by demography action on civic akin alone. Municipalities, for example, accept abundant abeyant for GHG discharge reduction: they can apply above access on bounded calefaction and ability supply, carriage issues or activity standards in borough barrio - to acknowledgment but a few. There are absorbing examples aural the ranks of Climate Alliance associates of what a aberration city can accomplish if it comes to bounded GHG emissions.”

Dr. Karl-Ludwig Schibel, Executive Board of Climate Alliance: “The Climate Alliance cities and municipalities accept committed themselves to abate the greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent every 5 years. Therefore we aswell apprehend of the governments actuality in Copenhagen a accurately bounden acceding of concise and abiding goals.”

Thomas Brose, Director Climate Alliance, recalled the affiliation with the aboriginal peoples of the Amazon arena and said: “The attention of the rainforests and the aegis of the rights of aboriginal peoples are important aims of Climate Alliance. So we acceptable backwoods aegis measures, but anguish that instruments like REDD will be acclimated to buy one’s way out of the assignment to abate greenhouse gas emissions.”

The “Climate Alliance of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples” is a city-limits arrangement with 1500 European bounded authorities in 18 countries that accept entered into a affiliation with aboriginal rainforest peoples ­ affiliated by the accepted affair for the all-around climate. By adhering, the cities and municipalities accomplish to an aggressive target: to abate their greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent every 5 years, with the important anniversary of halving per capita emissions at the latest by 2030 (base year 1990).

Climate Alliance / Klima-Bündnis / Alianza del Clima e.V.
European Secretariat
Galvanistr. 28, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. +49-69-717139-0, Fax +49-69-717139-93
europe@climatealliance.org
www.climatealliance.org

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