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Page Title Image - General UseICLEI’s work on climate mitigation – reducing greenhouse gas emissions – is often couched under the umbrella of our Cities for Climate Protection ® campaign. This is ICLEI’s flagship program designed to educate and empower local governments worldwide to take action on climate change. It is a performance-based campaign that offers a framework for local governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve livability within their municipalities.

As part of our climate mitigation work is the Five Milestone to assist US local governments in developing and implementing harmonized local approaches for reducing global warming and air pollution emissions, with the additional benefit of improving community livability.

The Five Milestones are:

  1. Conduct a baseline emissions inventory and forecast
  2. Adopt an emissions reduction target
  3. Develop a Local Climate Action Plan
  4. Implement policies and measure
  5. Monitor and verify results

 

Read more about the Five Milestones.
 
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