Agenda 21: International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives

[Patricia M. McBride]

The “International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives” founded in 1990 to address global climate change. http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=iclei-home

 

Florida is participating in GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE!  Here are the cities and counties, as of 31 March 2011, that pay dues to be members of Global Climate change initiatives.

Alachua County, FL

Boynton Beach, FL

Broward County, FL

Collier County, FL

Cutler Bay, FL

Davie, FL

Delray Beach, FL

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Gainesville, FL

Key West, FL

Lake Worth, FL

Lee County, FL

Leon County, FL

Maitland, FL

Marathon, FL

Miami Gardens, FL

Miami-Dade County, FL

Monroe County, FL

North Miami, FL

Orange County, FL

Orlando, FL

Ormond Beach, FL

Palm Bay, FL

Palm Beach County, FL

Pinellas County, FL

Plantation, FL

Sarasota County, FL

Sarasota, FL

Seminole County, FL

South Daytona, FL

Tallahassee, FL

Tamarac, FL

Tampa, FL

Venice, FL

Volusia County, FL

West Palm Beach, FL

Though Jacksonville or Duval County are not on the list, Mayor Peyton has opened the door.  Jacksonville Florida can be found in “THE CITY CLIMATE CATALOGUE,” a partner in the ICLIE.

From The City Climate Catalogue website:

http://www.climate-catalogue.org//index.php?id=6860

Aim of the City Climate Catalogue

The Copenhagen City Climate Catalogue is the first global collection to centralise facts and figures on community climate action – from targets to achievements.

It has been developed to present a strong case for local governments during the international climate negotiations on a post-2012 global climate agreement. Very successfully used by ICLEI and the City of Copenhagen during the COP15 (15th Conference of the Parties), the next step is toward COP16 in Cancún at the end of 2010.

Mega-cities, small cities, towns, villages and counties - all local governments around the globe, are invited to share their climate change mitigation targets and actions for the municipality (government / corporate) and whole community:

• Greenhouse      gas (GHG) reduction targets and renewable energy targets

• Achievements:      CO2 emissions reductions, energy savings, switch to renewable energy (RE).

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster ReductionJoin the global collection effort! Share your community targets and local climate action data. Flyer available here.

Context

The Catalogue is used as a supportive tool in global advocacy work conduced at the United Nations.  The Local Government Climate Roadmap was launched in 2007 in Bali, Indonesia during the COP 13. This process runs in parallel to the UN Roadmap to achieve a post-2012 climate agreement – calling for recognition of the important role of cities and towns in climate action.

 

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(The list below is not complete) 

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG)

Metropolis

World Economic Forum

Clinton Climate Initiative

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Climate Group

World Bank

World Conservation Union (IUCN)

REEEP - Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership

Global Footprint Network

International Centre for Sustainable Cities

Earthquakes and Megacities Initiative

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction