Kyoto World Cities Challenge – Abstract
Despite the fact that the transport sector is responsible for at least half, often more, of all CO2 production in most cities, there is no provision under the Kyoto Protocols to provide guidelines, mechanisms or incentives to attack these problems. Transport in cities was the Empty Chair in Kyoto.
The Kyoto World Cities Challenge Initiative has been created to provide an open platform of expert guidance and peer support for groups and cities anywhere in the world wishing to attack these problems, and in the process move toward being Kyoto Compliant.
The main pillars of this independent peer initiative include:
1. An aggressive Outline Program Proposal and Strategy for practical, high impact, short term, explicitly targeted remedial action at the level of the city starting in 2005, supported by...
2. A distinguished International Advisory Panel : a high level group of recognized experts and leaders in the wide range of fields that need to be brought in to the solution process, and
3. Direct continuing contact and exchanges with a World Wide Inventory of Programs and Sources active in related areas with coverage and competences that are needed to meet the challenges.
4. A state-of-the-art multi-level Information and IP Communications Platform brining together low cost high quality internet tools that can be used to knit the network and the interested cities together.
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