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Near Naples, Hasselt and Glasgow, driving the "Mayors Adapt" initiative, aimed at adapting cities to mitigate the effects of climate change.
Murcia and was the first Spanish town that acceded to the Covenant of Mayors in 2008.
The Mayor invited the Commissioner of Climate Change to be held in Murcia the next meetings of "Mayors Adapt".
Murcia has again put the head of European cities committed to leading the fight against climate change and adaptation to cope with its effects.
In this case, this task has been channeled through the adherence to the "Mayors Adapt" initiative, launched in Brussels on 19 March, and which also add de Murcia, the cities of Naples-Italy-, Hasselt -Belgium-and Glasgow-UK.
Municipalities will not be alone to face this challenge, since the European Union, based on the Covenant of Mayors, which Miguel Angel House acceded in 2008, Murcia was the first Spanish capital took this step, will provide funding to carry out the necessary measures to ensure the adaptation of cities to climate change and mitigate its effects.
The "Mayors Adapt" initiative, born within the Covenant of Mayors of the European Union as a decided advance in the fight against climate change, the alliance wants to encourage administrations to European citizens to reaffirm the commitment of the people in this task.
Quote in Murcia
House, which invited the Commissioner for Climate Change Connie Hedegaard, so that future meetings around the Mayor's Adapt take place in the city of Murcia, said among the great benefits to be derived from this commitment ability to "reduce its cost and damage to society, save lives and natural resources and stimulate economic regeneration."
For Murcia, the importance of winning the fight to climate change becomes larger due to the extreme temperatures reached, water scarcity, severe droughts and increasing the danger of forest fires.
Murcia is expected that temperatures rise an average of 3 degrees, the maximum-and minimum-two degrees.
The European Commission has put in the service of Mayors initiative called Adapt European Platform for Climate Change Adaptation through the Alliance for Climate entity with which the City of Murcia is already working and invite the rest of Spanish cities looking to join the proposal.
This platform will support and enable the sharing of resources, strengthen ties between the signatory cities and have valuable information for each local planning strategy.
Murcia submit a draft of its Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change, which will build on the excellent results obtained by the Local Climate Change Strategy.
The local strategy of Murcia
Murcia, through the Covenant of Mayors, became one of the first cities in Spain to commit to 20-20-20, which is to reduce their energy consumption by 20%, increase the use of renewable energy to 20 % and reduce emissions of greenhouse gases also in the same proportion, 20% by 2020.
In this pioneering attitude was further strengthened by increasing the required amount of CO2 emission reduction of 20% to 40%, by creating and increasing carbon sink plantations locally.
The City of Murcia, GERMAN through their Local Agency for Energy and Climate Change under the Department of Environment, again demonstrates its leadership and commitment to energy efficiency and combating climate change, stating their intention to be one of the first European cities, and therefore the first Spanish city to be part of this innovative and important European initiative.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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