Press Release: EU Covenant of Mayors and Compact of Mayors launch largest global coalition of cities committed to fighting climate change

On 22 June 2016, the world’s two primary city-led climate change and energy initiatives, the EU Covenant of Mayors and the Compact of Mayors, announced the formation of a new, first-of-its-kind global initiative of cities and local governments leading in the fight against climate change. This single initiative created the largest global coalition of cities committed to climate leadership, building on the commitments of more than 7,100 cities from 119 countries and six continents, representing more than 600 million inhabitants, over 8% of the world’s population. The launch of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy came six months after the historic Paris climate change conference, where cities were crucial voices in shaping and advocating for a strong global agreement, and was a historic and powerful response by the world’s local leaders to the urgent climate challenge.

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Website: Compact of Mayors http://www.compactofmayors.org/

Website: Mayors Adapt http://mayors-adapt.eu/

ESO: Background information: Europeans surrender control of climate initiative to Bloomberg http://www.europeansources.info/record/europeans-surrender-control-of-climate-initiative-to-bloomberg/

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