"Cities are leading the way where national governments have failed"
In the face of governments’ inaction to fight climate change, 94 of the world’s biggest cities have just voiced support for a global plan: the Green New Deal, announced yesterday at the C40 Cities in Copenhagen.
In the face of governments’ inaction to fight climate change, 94 of the world’s biggest cities have just voiced support for a global plan: the Green New Deal, announced yesterday at the C40 Cities in Copenhagen.
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00:00The ecological transition must be a collective project and an inclusive one.
00:06This is an emergency. This isn't something we can talk about later.
00:10This isn't something that can be dealt with at some other time.
00:13This is something which needs to be dealt with now.
00:16As mayors, our primary responsibility is to protect the lives and livelihoods of our citizens.
00:25We launched a global Green New Deal, which allows us to look at economic preservation
00:50and ecological preservation together to create more jobs for more people in the future in the
00:55face of automation and technological change so that we can say the two things that cause people
01:00the most anxiety will I have a job in the future and will there be an earth in the future we can
01:05solve together. There's no question that cities are leading the way where national governments
01:09have failed. In some countries the national government like here in Denmark are working
01:12hand in hand with cities but in other places like America we see a president who's hostile
01:17to any of the actions that are necessary to save the earth and to build the economy so we're not
01:22waiting for those leaders who don't act. Cities are powerful, cities are strong, cities are networked
01:27and cities are acting.