Background: Cities and climate change

The figures are impressive: Berlin aims to reduce its CO2 emissions by 40 % by the year 2020, London is planning to lower them by 60 % by 2025 and Sydney by 70 % by 2030. Melbourne and Copenhagen are even more ambitious, aiming to be completely CO2-neutral by 2025.

Background: Cities and climate change
Manhattan bei Dämmerung. Über 20 % des Gebäude-Energieverbrauchs in New York entfällt auf Beleuchtungsenergie. Hier will die Stadt ansetzen, um CO2 einzusparen. © Wikipedia