EU strengthens alliance with cities on climate change

Hundreds of city representatives have launched a new and integrated Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, less than two months ahead of the COP21 international summit in Paris.

Signatory cities have pledged action to support the implementation of the new 2030 EU targets, a joint approach to tackling mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and the extension of the initiative to a more global scope. Since 2009 some 6,500 local authorities have already committed to the 2020 CO2 reduction objective.

Last summer, the European Commission launched a consultation process with the support of the European Committee of the Regions to collect cities’ views on the possible orientations of a n...