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Murcia to organize an international conference on climate change and energy.
This was announced today by the Mayor, that assists in Washington's global forum on energy efficiency, which has submitted the Plan of Action for Sustainable Energy and the measures implemented in this regard.
The mayors of both sides of the Atlantic have agreed to work together to highlight the crucial role of local authorities in the fight against climate change in a bid to boost cooperation between the U.S. and its counterpart organization community, the Covenant of Mayors.
Together create a framework so you can take out of this sharing of best practices and coordination of efforts.
House has maintained contacts both with the heads of the International Energy Agency and the Conference of Mayors United States who has been invited to present the experience of Murcia in energy efficiency and the role they have to play the member cities the European Covenant of Mayors, which Murcia was one of the first municipalities to be incorporated.
In short, it would promote a "sustainable settlement" in which the mayors of the EU and U.S.
are committed to addressing climate change together.
Both groups share the concern that climatic disturbances represent an urgent threat to environmental and economic well-being of cities, why work in devising appropriate and effective strategies in order to protect the climate and the environment and solve the best challenges may arise.
It is closer cooperation towards the common goal of climate change adaptation at local and your message will be clearer and better understood if it is combined with that of the Conference of Mayors U.S.
Among the potential opportunities of cooperation is to share best practice on climate change adaptation and combine their efforts to raise awareness among citizens about the need to save energy and reduce emissions.
House has stressed that "if you win the battle against climate change, it will be waged in the cities, which have to do everything possible to become capital carbon neutral."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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