Climate Emergency Report
February 2021
How Communities Are Using
Climate Emergency Declarations
to Make Big New Moves to
Decarbonize Locally
The Covid emergency arrived in the midst of an even more perilous emergency: the climate emergency, which more than 1,750 communities across the globe have acknowledged with official declarations…
This report presents the five big strategies of 15 communities worldwide in which residents, elected officials, community-based and environmental organizations, and local government staff worked intensively to turn the global climate emergency into new efforts to reduce carbon emissions at the local level. Each strategy is described using numerous examples drawn from the communities studied:
- Accelerating carbon-reduction targets
- Expanding solutions for reducing local emissions
- Tackling emissions produced outside local boundaries
- Drawing down carbon through natural means
- Upgrading local government’s decarbonization capacities
Full report here: http://carbonneutralcities.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/CNCA-Climate-Emergency-Report_This-Is-Not-a-Drill_Feb-2021.pdf