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CALL FOR MUNICIPAL ACTION

On the occasion of the Municipal Leaders’ Summit on Climate Change
and the Urban Environment, the United Nations Headquarters, New York,
25-26 January 1993, participants in the Summit invited all local
authorities to work with each other, with national organizations, and
with international agencies to develop and implement strategies to
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to protect the biological

environment for its ability to remove COQ,,

A global campaign, Cities for Climate Protection was launched to assist
national governments to achieve the goals established by the Framewark
Convention on Climate Change at the earliest possible date.

Any local authority may join the Campaign by adopting this Declaration
or by becoming a signatory to a National Declaration established to meet
local circumstances. Participants understand that the scope of local
action will differ according to the different status of development in
different parts of the world. By joining the Campaign local authorities

pledge to:

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seek the invalvement of all sectors of their local community
in the develapment of a “local action plan" to reduce local
emissions of greenhouse gases with special emphasis on
CO, emissions;

undertake initiatives to significantly reduce energy use and
emissions associated with municipally-owned or controlled
buildings and vehicle fleets;

undertake initiatives to change public attitudes and
behaviour through information, advice, awareness raising,
promotion and training; and

join strategic procurement initiatives that aggregate global
or national municipal demand for energy products and
services so as to pramote more cost effective CO,
reduction technologies and to facilitate the commercial!
availability of advanced technologies.

Participants appeal to national governments of the developed
countries to grant more financial support to municipalities in the
developing countries in order to enable them to establish and
implement their own local action plans to reduce CO, emissions.