09. May |
Rio+20Under the auspices of the Secretary General of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), a major press conference was held on 22 June 2012 to announce commitments registered at Rio+20. The Mexico City Pact and carbonn Cities Climate Registry (cCCR) were showcased as one of the select sample of registered commitments by a range of stakeholders. “Cities are committed to measurable, reportable, verifiable climate action that the world can count on.” said Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of Mexico City, Mexico, and Chair of World Mayors Council on Climate Change at the press conference. |
20. June |
Earth Hour City Challenge 2013Registration for WWF Earth Hour City Challenge 2014 now open!From May to October this year, the EHCC 2014 participating cities will be reporting to cCCR. Their reports will then be evaluated by an international jury, and the results will be announced in March 2014. In 2013, 66 cities participated in the first international EHCC by reporting their commitments, targets, performance and actions through ICLEI’s carbon Cities Climate Registry, the world's largest global database of local climate action. ICLEI member cities including City of Vancouver (Canada), New Dehli (India), Forli (Italy), Oslo (Norway), Uppsala (Sweden) and San Francisco accounted for 70% of all National finalists. Cities in 15 countries, including six from the previous round as well as Brazil, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Korea and Indonesia will participate in the upcoming round of the Earth Hour City Challenge, which will be run by WWF in collaboration with ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability and the Swedish Postcode Lottery. Cities from the participating countries interested in joining the challenge will be able to start reporting their local climate data by registering to the carbon Cities Climate Registry from 8 May 2013. For more information, read WWF press release and panda.org/ehcc Guidelines and support for EHCC candidatescarbonn Cities Climate Registry User Manual (PDF) |
