Cities and climate change

“The battle against climate change will be won or lost in our cities”
Cities have a central role to play in tackling climate change, particularly as cities bear a disproportional responsibility for causing it.

In fact, cities and urban areas consume 75 per cent of the world’s energy and produce up to 75 per cent of its greenhouse gas emissions.

So what are cities doing to reduce emissions and promote renewable energy sources? How do they motivate their citizens to practice climate protection? What are their hopes for the climate summit in Copenhagen? And how do cities coordinate long-term climate strategies with daily politics? Daylight & Architecture has asked around: in London, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen and Warsaw, as well as at the C40 Cities Initiative, an organisation in which the world’s major cities discuss and coordinate climate protection.

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