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Together in Climate Action: Northeastern North America Policy Summit, December 7th & 8th, Cambridge
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The summit will bring together policymakers, researchers, and business and civic leaders from the New England states, Atlantic Canadian provinces, New York, and Québec. Michael R. Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and three-term mayor of New York City will provide the keynote address at the summit.
The region has a significant history of collaborating on climate and energy policies. In 2001, for example, the New England governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers adopted a regional climate change action plan that called for significant long-term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Continued leadership at the regional level has become even more important in light of the decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate. The summit will focus on key policy issues confronting states and provinces as they work to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including improving electricity markets, reducing emissions from transportation, and pricing carbon emissions.
Michael R. Bloomberg, the founder of Bloomberg L.P. and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and three-term mayor of New York City, will provide the keynote address at the summit.
Bloomberg is one of the world’s leading voices on the opportunity for subnational governments to lead the effort to address climate change. He serves as the United Nations secretary-general’s special envoy for cities and climate change, and along with California Governor Jerry Brown, in July he launched “America’s Pledge,” an initiative to quantify the actions of states, cities, and businesses in the United States to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the goals of the Paris climate agreement.
Bloomberg’s new book, Climate of Hope, co-authored with former Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope, offers a bottom-up vision for how states, cities, regions, businesses, and organizations can confront the challenge of climate change.
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