Mayors for 100% Clean Energy asks leaders to commit their cities to 100 percent clean energy A groups of U.S. mayors announced a new drive to encourage sustainable energy yesterday, imploring colleagues across the country to make pledges and push their cities to adopt roadmaps to transition to renewable power.
Building upon the Sierra Club?s Ready for 100 campaign, the new Mayors for 100% Clean Energy national initiative aims to encourage more cities and municipalities to make a clean energy pledge in advance of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, which meets in Miami Beach, Florida, in June.
Cities have become much more active in reducing carbon emissions and fighting climate change, especially in the wake of changes at the EPA and the new administration?s stance on climate change. International organizations such as the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group have banded together to share ideas and promote sustainable development, while many current and former civic leaders in the United States, such as former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have been outspoken about the important role cities have to play in promoting sustainability. Recently, the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda, a group founded by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, and former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, released an electric vehicle request-for-information to automakers, to demonstrate the potential market for electric vehicles in urban centers. Mayo...