ClimateActionMap on TwitterEco Schoolhouse in Columbia, Missouri. Self-sustaining, eco-friendly, and interactive schoolhouse classroom. http://ow.ly/2uHCk

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ClimateActionMap on TwitterAssessing risks in Maputo, Mozambique. Building institutional and community capacity for http://ow.ly/2u0Ve

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ClimateActionMap on TwitterIndustrial Symbiosis in Kalundborg, Denmark. One industry's waste, becomes another industry's resource. http://ow.ly/2twI5

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ClimateActionMap on TwitterPromoting Energy Conservation in Taipei through electricity bill lottery. 122 million kWh (78,000 MTE CO2) saved in 2009. http://ow.ly/2sOKi

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ClimateActionMap on TwitterLivelihood centered approaches to disaster risk reduction in Nepal. http://ow.ly/2sz2E

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ClimateActionMap on TwitterSanta Barbara's ambitious plan to go fossil free by 2030 using locally available natural resources: wind, solar, etc. http://ow.ly/2syYs

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New City: Lira, UgandaNew City on CAM. Lira Uganda. Interlocking Stabilised Soil Blocks for construction. http://ow.ly/1cRdP  

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New City: Durban, South AfricaNew city on ClimateActionMap.org: Durham, South Africa. Landfill gas recovery, green roofs, reforestation. http://ow.ly/1bnsc

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February NewsletterOur February newsletter includes an announcement of Co-Founder Uwe Lorenen's death, COP 15 update and much more. Read it here. If you wih to subscrbe to our newsletter click here.

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Mentions of Uwe LorenzenCouncil of European Municpalities and Regions
It is with immense sadness that the Council of European Municipalities and Regions has learnt of the sudden and unexpected passing away of the head of the EU department of Local Government Denmark , Uwe Lorenzen...Read More
 
United Cities and Local Governments
It is with deep regret that the Presidency, World Secretariat and Members of United Cities and Local Governments have learned of the passing away of Uwe Lorenzen, Head of the European Union Department of Local Government Denmark... Read More
 
City Triple Borrom Line
The global sustainability movement lost a champion recently in the passing of Uwe Lorenzen.  Uwe was head of the European Union Office at Local Government Denmark — the interest group that represents Danish municipalities, essentially equivalent to the National League of Cities in the U.S...Read More

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The Passing of Uwe Lorenzen, Co-Founder of ClimateActionMap.orgAll of us at Climate Action Map are deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Uwe Lorenzen, Co-Founder of Climate Action Map. Uwe was a good friend and colleague and his death has been a severe loss to all of us. Please read the statement below from United Cities and Local Governments.
 
It is with deep regret that the Presidency, World Secretariat and Members of United Cities and Local Governments have learned of the passing away of Uwe Lorenzen, Head of the European Union Department of Local Government Denmark.

A remarkably active member of the international movement of local and regional government networks, Uwe Lorenzen contributed greatly to the organization and success of the UCLG Executive Bureau and the Local Government Climate Change Leadership Summit in Copenhagen last June 2009.

He held the respect and friendship of his colleagues, who wish to convey to his family and close friends, as well as to his partners and to the members of LGDK, their deepest sympathies and their support at this difficult time....
 
One of Uwe's last wishes was the succesful continuation and expansion of Climate Action Map. All of us here will do everything to live up to Uwe's wish. Uwe will be deeply missed by all of us.

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Happy New YearHello Climate Action Map supporters,
Here at Climate Action Map, we look forward to a new and exciting year. Our booth at the UN COP 15 Conference together with UN Habitat was a big success and new cities are joining every week. The outcome of COP 15 was unfortunately not what any of us had hoped for, but the lack of national and international action only emphasizes the need for local actions to be stepped up in 2010.

As of now we have 53 cities on 5 continents and over 1200 local climate solutions. We thank you for your support and we hope that 2010 will be just another exciting year.

If you wish to get daily updates on new cities and interesting please feel free to subscribe to our tweets at www.twitter.com/climatemap.

The ClimateActionMap.org Team.

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ClimateActionMap.org available on Iphone and Android DevicesIn time for the United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen, ClimateActionMap.org is excited to announce a mobile version of the map using the Layar platform. ClimateActionMap.org is a non-profit online platform that allows cities across the globe to share their best practice climate initiatives. Today more than 40 cities around the world have listed their best practice climate initiatives and more are joining each week.
The Climate Action Layer has been launched just in time for the UN Climate Conference (COP 15) in Copenhagen where government leaders from more than 100 countries are gathering along with 20.000 participants from non-profits to negotiate a global agreement to curb CO2 emissions. ClimateActionMap.org is presenting the map together with its partners from the US National League of Cities, Local Government Denmark and UN Habitat in order to highlight the importance of local government action in reducing CO2 emissions.
 
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NLC Launches Climate Action Map as Free Tool for CitiesCities can now access a free online tool to help plan and showcase their climate and emissions reduction initiatives. The recent Congress of Cities and Exposition in San Antonio marked the official U.S. launch of the global initiative, Climate Action Map (www.ClimateActionMap.org). NLC is serving as the U.S. national partner organization. 
The user-friendly website provides a global online platform for cities to place projects on the site’s map, essentially building a visually-appealing, virtual database. From green buildings to wind farms to LED streetlights, an endless variety of successful projects and policies are contained on the site. Local governments stand to benefit from sharing ideas with other cities, while also gaining a tool to graphically represent their climate programs to their own communities. 
Climate Action Map was created to communicate to a global audience the thousands of local climate initiatives underway around the world. The mission of the site is to educate, inform and inspire governments at all levels, while also informing individual communities and the private sector. Read the full article.

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UN Cop 15 begins Monday December 7I am currently sitting in San Francisco Airport waiting to board the plane to Copenhagen where we will present ClimateActionMap.org (Burning lots of Carbon in the process :( ). If you happen to come to the conference please come by and visit us at booth H-011D. Representatives from all our partner organizations will be there during the next two weeks.

If you are not able to join us please follow our tweets at www.twitter.com/climatemap or www.climateactionmap.org/news.

Both President Obama and the India's Prime Minister are scheduled to attend the conference so we may be closer to a political commitment/agreement than we thought just a few weeks back.

Thanks for your support and please keep spreading the word.
 

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December newsletter is out and new cities are on the mapAs we are getting ready for the UN COP 15 in Copenhagen head over over and read our newsletter. 
If you happen to be in Copenhagen during COP 15 come on over and see the map. Our main activities will take place together with UN Habitat at the official event at the Copenhagen Congress Center where access is restricted, but we will also be presenting the map at the following public venues:
 

• The Copenhagen Climate Exchange Exhibition from December 3-6.
• The Road to Copenhagen Conference in Malmö, Sweden from December 6-8.

 
Finally, we would like to welcome a host of new cities that joined the map in recent days:
 

• Vellore, India
• Pintadas, Brazil
• Madrid, Spain
• Potchefstroom, South Africa
• Lahti, Finland
• Thisted, Denmark
• Bergen, Norway
• Trysil, Norway
• Phang Nga, Thailand

 

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Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia has joined Climate Action MapSanta Cruz de la Sierra, commonly known as Santa Cruz, is the capital city of the Santa Cruz department in eastern Bolivia. The municipality's population was 1,528,683 inhabitants in 2006 (official estimate) and the urban population is 1,545,161 in 2008 (official estimate) which makes it the largest city in Bolivia.
In the municipality of Santa Cruz, the sanitation sector faces immediate challenges. The population is growing at an annual rate of over 6%. The sewerage coverage in the service area of the Cooperative of Public Services of “Santa Cruz” (SAGUA­PAC) is only around 50%. This low rate of sewerage coverage poses immediate public health and environmental effects.  Gases generated by the current treatment facilities contaminate and carry unpleasant odors to the nearby residential areas. In addition, sewage infiltration into the city’s main aquifer will result, within a few years, in irreversible damage to the water supply. The situation demands an adequate technical solution.
Santa Cruz, Bolivia is part of the UN Habitat Cities in Climate Change Initiative

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Samsø, Denmark's Official Energy Island is on the mapSamsø is a small island of 114 square kilometers, located in the center of Demark.
The 4.100 inhabitants primary income is agriculture and tourism... and renewable energy.

The island is 100% self-sufficient with wind-generated electricity. About 70% of island heating needs are met with renewable energy, and the transportation energy consumption is 100% compensated by the electricity production from offshore wind turbines.

Samsø's CO2 balance shows that each inhabitant emits -4 tons CO2 a year.
The negative figure is obtained by widespread use of renewable energy on the island and by exporting electricity to the mainland from excess wind turbine power and thus reducing coal based power production.
 

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Our newest city Savannah, Georgia won prize for revitalizationThe National League of Cities recognized the City of Savannah today with its highest honor for its innovative work revitalizing distressed neighborhoods.

Members of Savannah City Council and staff were presented with the Award for Municipal Excellence during a ceremony Friday at the NLC's annual Congress of Cities in San Antonio, Texas. Savannah won the Gold Medal for cities with populations between 50,000 and 150,000 for its Neighborhood Renaissance program. Gold Medal winners in the three other population categories were: New York City; Long Beach, Calif.; and Slidell, La.

Savannah's Neighborhood Renaissance initiative works with citizens to create revitalization plans for their neighborhoods, then uses public-private partnerships with multiple agencies to rebuild infrastructure, add new affordable housing, refurbish existing homes, acquire vacant property, aggressively enforce property maintenance codes and create enterprise zones to spur economic development.

Read the full press release

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Official Launch of the US Climate Action Map and Climate Action WorkshopU.S. cities now have a new tool to showcase their climate and emissions reduction initiatives.  NLC is proud to be the national partner organization for Climate Action Map, a global online platform which is officially launching its U.S. site at NLC's Congressof Cities in San Antonio November 11-14, 2009. By placing projects on the website’s map, local governments will benefit from sharing practices and policies with other cities, while also gaining a free, user-friendly tool to help manage their climate programs and share them with their communities.  On Saturday November 14th, join us for a hands-on workshop to see what the map looks like, how you can use it, and how to get your city on the map.

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Two New Cities on Climate Action MapKøge Municpality and Frederikshavn Municipality, both in Denmark have joined the Climate Action Map community. Check them out on the map.

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New City on ClimateActionMap.org: City of Aalborg, DenmarkThe Municipality of Aalborg is the third largest in Denmark with a population of over 190,000 and a total area of 1.144 km2. Two acclaimed international documents on local sustainable development have taken form during conferences in Aalborg and bear the name of the city. These are the Aalborg Charter and the Aalborg Commitments respectively.
The Aalborg Charter was adopted in 1994 and contains a set of common visions and declarations of intent with regard to sustainable development. The City of Aalborg and the EU Commission took the initiative concerning the wording of the Aalborg Charter and were at the same time behind the establishment of the European Sustainable Cities and Towns Campaign. 

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New features introduced: Video support and policy sharingYouTube Video Support We are excited to announce that we now support embedded videos from YouTube. You can add videos to your region information or any project. We believe that providing video footage from your city and/or your projects greatly improves the user experience.  Adding video is really simple. When you add or edit a project, all you have to do is to provide a name for the video and the Youtube URL.  For an example visit Lolland Municipality who provided a video to their region info window introducing visitors to the municipality. Go to www.climateactionmap.org and visit Lolland Municipality.

Share Your Policies and Plans Many of you have expressed interest in sharing policies and plans with other cities. To meet this request, we just implemented a simple way for you to link to your climate change related policies and plans. To add policies just sign in and go to "Edit Region" in the "Control Panel". There you will see a new tab called "Policies". Provide a name for each policy/plan, choose the category it falls under, and provide the URL to where the policy/plan is located (usually somewhere on your own website). Now your policy/plan will show up in your region information video on the map. If you want to see what policies other cities have, you can do so by going to www.climateactionmap.org/policies. You can sort the policies according to region, country, name, and category. As more policies are added, we will implement a more advanced search feature. If you have any feedback or comments on how to improve the policy feature feel free to contact us.

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ClimateActionMap.org newsletterThe first newsletter from ClimateActionMap.org is now available. You cans till read the newsletter even though you are not subscribed by following the links below.
 

• English Version
• French Version
• Spanish Version
• Portuguese Version

If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter, you can sign up here.

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New City: Randers Municpality
Where the Waterway meets the 13 Highways
Randers is known for the many access roads leading into the city, and it has engendered the popular saying, "Where the waterway meets the 13 highways." Randers has Denmark's only natural river harbour, and is situated on the banks of the River ’Gudenå’, about 6 miles (10 km) above its mouth in ‘Randers Fjord’. Randers is placed 111 miles (179 km) west-northwest of Copenhagen and is Denmark's 6th largest city with a population of 59,842.
 
Danish Frontrunner
Randers Municipality (pop. 94,250) occupies a particularly strong position in the fields of energy and climate. Over the past 25 years, Randers and environs has established itself as the Danish front-runner in the development of energy and environment friendly technologies.
 
One of the first serious electric car projects in Europe saw the light of day here with the development and production of a single-seater city car, the "Ellert", which was financed by the local community. 
 
It was also here that Denmark's wind turbine adventure began. NEG Micon (later Vestas A/S) developed and produced large modern wind turbines. Wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has its headquarters in Randers. At the Overgaard estate in Randers municipality one can visit Denmark's largest on-land wind turbine farm.
 
The development of environment and energy friendly trains has played a major role in Randers. The town's 60 year-old train factory (now Bombardier A/S) develops modern energy technology solutions to match the challenges of public transport.

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New City on ClimateActionMap.org: City of Copenhagen, DenmarkCopenhagen is focused on the climate. The city is energy efficient with our district heating system, while nearly 40% of our citizens cycle to work or their educational institution every day. The electricity-generating windmills, located in the sea outside the city, save 76,000 tons of CO2 emissions annually.
Our vision is for Copenhagen to be the climate capital of the world, with a 20% reduction in CO2 emissions by 2015 compared to 2005. We even want to become completely CO2-neutral by 2025 as the first capital in the world. We are looking for joint initiatives from municipalities, the business world and the citizens as well as close cooperation across international borders.
More than 30% of CO2 emissions in Copenhagen come from residential and other buildings. It is our goal that in the future all urban development projects will contribute to reducing Copenhagen’s total CO2 emissions, and that selected urban areas will become completely CO2-neutral.
City traffic is responsible for 20% of the city’s CO2 annual emissions ie, 518,000 tons. We will reduce private use of cars within the inner walls of the city of Copenhagen by offering people enhanced opportunities to walk, cycle or use public transport. We will incorporate new technology into solutions which reduce pollution from train, metro and busses.

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New city: Kalundborg Municipality, Denmark
Kalundborg is striving to become a green industrial city by 2020. Many remedies have already been taken and projects initiated with key players thereby bridging the often perceived antagonistic parameters featuring growth and sustainability.

Full-screenBeing the largest industrial cluster outside Copenhagen, projections about the future of Kalundborg are prosperous, facing increasing industrial investments amounting up to 1,6 bn euro within a decade. The gloomy downside however is the correlation between heavy industry and GHG emissions. It is paramount to Kalundborg Municipality to pursue a sustained growth rate as projected, however NOT at the expense of the environment.

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Danish ClimateActionMap now onlineAs the first country, Denmark now has its own national Climate Action Map. Together with Local Government Denmark, we have developed a custom branded version of Climate Action Map for Denmark. The map is customized to only show Danish cities and their projects. We are currently also working on a national map for the USA in collaboration with the National League of Cities. We are planning on releasing the US map within a few weeks. Until then please see the new Danish map at www.climateactionmap.org/denmark

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New City on ClimateActionMap.org: Holstebro Municipality, Denmark
This week we added our third city/municipality, Holstebro Municpality in Denmark. Holstebro Municipality has committed itself to reducing CO2 emissions by 2% per year until the year 2025. In the coming weeks, keep come back and see the innovative projects that the municpality is working on.

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