Cities worldwide are setting climate goals that are far more ambitious than the targets agreed upon by national governments, leading to clashes between urban leaders and national ones, Reuters reported Monday.
But as many cities become more assertive, governments are reluctant to cede control.”
Oslo, for example, is battling Norway’s right-wing coalition government to enact an aggressive plan to cut the city’s carbon emissions.
The city is pushing “
“Cities are on the front line of both the cause and effect of climate change,” said Somayya Ali Ibrahim, program manager for the Urban Climate Change Research Network at the Earth Institute. “Cause—because if there are so many people gathered in one spot, there are more emissions and more energy is used. And on the converse side, they will be most affected by climate change because of coastal flooding, heat waves, urban heat island effects, epidemics, [and impacts on] water and sanitation systems, and transport systems. So most of the people affected [by climate change] will be in cities.”
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