+15,000 ALCALDES, PREFEITOS, PRESIDENTES MUNICIPALES
E INTENDENTES OF LATIN AMERICA TOGETHER,
BINDINGLY COMMITTED TO CARBON NEUTRALITY 2050 BEFORE
THE PARIS AGREEMENT.
BECAUSE THERE IS
N PLANET B.
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Minimum Criteria
Mayors for Climate is an initiative of the Coalition of Capital Cities of the Americas on Climate Change (CC35), chaired by the Mayor of Santiago and supported by the COP25 High-Level Champion that strengthens the Santiago-Glasgow route together with other international networks and is led by the commitment of Latin American mayors to create a decisive strategy to ensure the mandatory phase of the Paris Agreement. After a quarter of a century of non-compliance by the 10 most polluting nations on the planet, which are responsible for about 67% of global emissions, the decisive time has come towards COP26 to show that local governments around the world can be the ones to guarantee the transition to a sustainable economy. Resistance to the creation of a global carbon market that puts a limit on the IPCC's* permanent calls for action to limit the earth's temperature increase of 1.5 0C, needs the decisive will of more than 15,000 cities in the region under the presidency of Chile. A unique, replicable and scalable strategy that sets binding local climate emergency legislation to meet carbon neutrality by 2050 from the bottom up, places local governments in 2021 as
the most relevant actors on the way to the next climate summit. Definitely the most important of all
for the future of humanity.
*The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
CARBON NEUTRALITY 2050 FROM LATIN AMERICA
Gonzalo Muñoz
High-Level Champion COP25
SEE MESSAGE
Carolina Mejia
Mayoress of the National District (Dominican Republic)
President of Mayors for Climate
SEE MESSAGE
Sebastián Navarro
Secretary General of CC35
SEE MESSAGE
CLIMATE EMERGENCY, LOCAL LEGISLATION AND DECENTRALIZATION TO SCALE
Head of local governments sign the 2050 carbon neutral commitment charter
Local legislators pass climate emergency legislation
Mayors for Climate follows up on legislative approvals through municipal associations and their country partners, with increased transparency and Blockchain
The platform reports to the UNFCCC until 2025
THE VOICE OF
20
600,000,000
+
People
15,000
8
+
%
Local Governments
Countries Represented
of the Planet
irací hassler
Mayor of Santiago
3
LOCALIZE THE FINANCING
FOR THE CLIMATE
Promote action-oriented national strategies and instruments that accelerate the localization of climate finance; ensure the full operationalization, improve the effectiveness and increase the budgetary shares of global and national climate funds that support local and regional government investments; unblock market mechanisms such as the new commitment periods of the Kyoto Protocol and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement; advance the implementation of the loss and damage policy.
5
LINKING THE CLIMATE WITH THE
CIRCULAR ECONOMY AND NATURE
Increase the effectiveness of the revised NDCs by creating appropriate synergies with co-benefits, including equitable access to basic services, a circular economy, and the new agreement for nature to be adopted at COP15 on biodiversity in Kunming in October 2020, inspired by the outcomes of the United Nations Nature Summit in New York in September 2020 and including targets for neutrality in land degradation.
1
INCREASE AMBITION
Increase climate emergency declarations, climate neutrality targets and transition to 100% renewable energy, getting rid of fossil fuels with additional mechanisms for synergy and implementation; including aligning commitments with the global carbon budget and long-term strategies such as "Pathways 2050"; addressing implementation problems caused by additionality criteria, such as corresponding adjustments; and improving local legislation and policy frameworks to increase climate neutrality targets and transition to zero emissions
SANTIAGO
4
BALANCED APPROACH BETWEEN
MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION
Address climate change risks through adaptation planning and adaptation in coordination and collaboration with subnational and local governments, along with ambitious mitigation efforts
Susan Aitken
Councillor of Glasgow
2
VERTICAL INTEGRATION
AND TRANSPARENCY OF NDCs
Invite the Parties to the Paris Agreement to establish multi-level collaborative and participatory mechanisms at the national level throughout 2020 in order to present new and revised LDCs with greater ambitions at COP 26 in Glasgow, supported by adequate monitoring, reporting and verification to ensure transparency.
6
AMPLIFY THE ACTION
WORLD'S CLIMATE
Advance World Climate Action as well as NAZCA in the post 2020 phase with appropriate support and facilitation mechanisms and expand existing collaboration to stakeholders and ministries such as those responsible for urbanization, infrastructure, public works, culture, education, family, youth, arts and music, through a effective ministerial action towards and at PreCOP26 and COP26.
LGMA members Calls “Multilevel Action COP26"
INCREASING AMBITION ON THE SANTIAGO - GLASGOW ROUTE
GLASGOW
Patricia Espinosa
Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC
“El secretario general de la ONU le pidió a Chile ser el líder en estrategias de mitigación. Fue una tarea difícil porque otros países no aceptaron asumir ese liderazgo, y Chile sí. Había anunciado su plan de descarbonización, y eso le daba una gran tranquilidad para liderar esta coalición”
“Los gobiernos bajo el Acuerdo de París tenemos mecanismos para garantizar esa transparencia y cumplir las metas. Buscamos algo similar de parte de los actores no estatales, aunque necesitamos cambiar esa palabra que los defina de mejor manera”
“El cambio climático nos afectará sí o sí. Aquellas empresas que transiten a una ruta sostenible podrían generar una ganancia económica de 26 mil millones de dólares. Es un enorme potencial también para los gobiernos locales, que podrían reconocerse para construir las ciudades del siglo XXI: más amigables, fáciles de recorrer y más resilientes”.
“Es primera vez que en la asamblea se generan diálogos con líderes empresariales, autoridades locales, alcaldes y sociedad civil. Es importante que todos los sectores participen, y que tampoco sea solo una agenda de ministerios del Medio Ambiente: todas las áreas de Gobierno deben asumir compromisos”.
“Es muy inusual que actores tomen estas decisiones alineadas con los planes de la ONU, porque la ONU guía la acción de los gobiernos nacionales. Pero esto es muy novedoso, y le da una mayor fuerza al Acuerdo de París como marco de referencia para la acción climática en todo el mundo”.
“Al hablar de cambio climático no estamos hablando de un problema futuro, las consecuencias ya están entre nosotros”.
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30.5%
Speaks Portuguese
69.5%
Speaks Spanish
20 SUMMITS FOR THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE AMBITION 2050
The Summits for the Alliance for Climate Ambition are held only with the associations that bring together the mayors of each country and aim to consolidate the commitment of more than +15,000 local governments in the region to carbon neutrality 2050 towards COP26.
Mexico
Argentina
Nicaragua
El Salvador
Paraguay
Puerto Rico
Ecuador
Colombia
Guatemala
Cuba
Overcoming political and partisan ideologies in the region through local diplomacy, for the Health of the Planet. And ours.
EARTH DAY: CAMPAIGN FOR CARBON NEUTRALITY 2050
COVID-19 has no borders, nor does the climate crisis.
We are living through one of the most important planetary crises of the last century. In order to understand the relationship between the health emergency and the climate emergency, it is urgent to interpret how the increase in global temperature can impact on an increase in the health problems of the world's citizens. The goals of emissions reduction aim to guarantee the 1.50C of the Paris Agreement and ensure a healthy humanity. This communication calls for action by local legislators and the more than 600 million people living in the cities of the Americas to lay the groundwork for a binding commitment. Also with 75 million digital impacts on the public highway in 17 countries is part of the Latin America's "COP in the Streets" is the largest platform for connecting each COP's #Climate Action message with citizens throughout the region.
THE LARGEST GLOBAL EMITTERS
Ranking of the 10 most polluting
ATMOSPHERIC EMISSIONS
Comparing
WITH Latin America
#2 UNITED STATES
5,416 MtCO2
(pop. 327,096,265)
#9 SAUDI ARABIA
621 MtCO2
(pop. 33,702,756)
#7 IRAN
720 MtCO2
(pop. 81,800,188)
#3 INDIA
2,654 MtCO2
(pop. 1,352,642,280)
#10 INDONESIA
615 MtCO2
(pop. 267,670,543)
#8 SOUTH KOREA
659 MtCO2
(pop. 51,171,706)
#5 JAPAN
1162 MtCO2
(pop. 127,202,192)
#4 RUSSIA
1711 MtCO2
(pop. 145,734,038)
#6 GERMANY
759 MtCO2
(pop. 83,124,418)
#1 CHINA
10065 MtCO2
(pop. 1,427,647,786)
Comparison of CO2 emissions between China and Latin America in 2018
China
10.064,68
Latin America
1.675,09
Mexico
477
Brazil
457
In megatons
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