Key information
Date: Wednesday 28th June 2017
Time: All day
Motion detail
This Assembly condemns the decision taken by the President of the United States to abandon the Paris climate agreement to limit global warming to ‘well below’ two degrees to avoid catastrophic climate change.
We welcome the Mayor’s work on climate change to date and call on him to continue demonstrating leadership by:
- ensuring that his environment strategy is consistent with the Paris climate agreement, particularly in the context of the President’s decision to withdraw from it;
- working with fellow C40 city leaders to adopt even stronger measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; and
- making climate change a top priority for his remaining time in office, particularly when lobbying the government and making the case for London during the Brexit negotiations.