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From pledges to action: Cities need to show their climate progress with hard data

  • Written by Conor K Gately, Postdoctoral Associate, Boston University
From pledges to action: Cities need to show their climate progress with hard dataPort of Long Beach, California.USCBP/Charles Csavossy/Wikimedia

As world leaders negotiate rules for cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the COP24 meeting in Poland, U.S. cities have a vested interest in the outcome. About 85 percent of Americans live in cities, and urban areas produce some 80 percent of our nation’s greenhouse gas emissions....

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