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Earth Hour City

Challenge

Samantha Smith

Head of Global Climate Initiative

WWF International

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Cities must lead the

global energy

transition

• The global urban population is expected to have doubled by 2050

• Cities cause more than 70% of global CO2 emissions

• $350 trillion will be invested in cities during the coming 3 decades

But huge opportunities for reduction

Big carbon footprints

Three prerequisits for tapping the

urban transformation potential

• Aggressive energy

reduction goals

• Best practice urban

planning

• Innovative financing

strategies

WWF’s Earth Hour City Challenge

• Designed by WWF and run in collaboration with ICLEI

• Calls for ambitious, holistic, inspiring and credible plans for low carbon development and for dramatically increasing the use of sustainable and efficient renewable energy solutions in the next few decades

• First international pilot only includes 6 countries but considerable expansion planned for 2013-2014.

• City candidates report on cCCR, the same platform as used for the Mexico city pact

Canada: 11 registered cities India: 6 registered cities Italy: 10 registered cities Norway: 7 registered cities Sweden: 10 registered cities US: 34 registered cities

•http://citiesclimateregistry.org/cities/earth-hour-city-challenge/

EHCC Status 2012-13

International expert jury 2012-2013

• Konrad Otto Zimmermann, Secretary General of ICLEI

• Conor Riffle, Head of CDP Cities

• Simon Giles, Senior Principal Intelligent Cities, Accenture Global,

Accenture

• Martha Delgado, Minister of the Environment of Mexico City

• Dan Hoornweg, Lead Urban Advisor – Climate Change and Cities,

World Bank

• Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary

• Pietro Laureano, architect and urban planner, UNESCO consultant

Join the Earth

Hour City Challenge!

www.panda.org/ehcc