Overseas Municipalities with Ambitious Targets to Reduce CO2/GHG Emissions

Keywords:　Climate Change　Local government　

Many municipalities around the world have set ambitious targets to cut carbon dioxide (CO2) or greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to prevent further climate change. By using this list to spread the word about exemplary efforts, we would like to help build this momentum, from city to city, and from local to central governments.

If you may have any information on municipalities' ambitious targets not included in this list, please share the information with us and provide the source (URL) using this online form. After reviewing input, we will add it to the list.

* We added Austin, Yarra, Utrecht with their ambitious targets.
Source: The City Climate Catalogue (2013/01/27)
* We added Lyon.(2012/11/27)

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List of Municipalities and their reduction targets

North America

Municipality (State, Country	Reduction target	Target year	Base year	CO2/ GHG	Action plan	Established year
NewYorkCity (New York, USA)	30%	2030	2005	GHG	plaNYC	2007
Massachusetts (USA)	1. 25% 2. 80%	1. 2020 2. 2050	1990	GHG	Massachusetts Releases Clean Energy and Climate Plan for 2020	2010
Chicago (Illinois, USA)	1. 25% 2. 80%	1. 2020 2. 2050	1990	GHG	Chicago Climate Action Plan	2009
Denver (USA)	1. 10% 2. 25%	1. 2012 2. 2020	1990	GHG	CITY OF DENVER CLIMATE ACTION PLAN	2007
Philadelphia (Pennsylvania, USA)	20%	2015	1990	GHG	GEENWORKS	2008
San Francisco (California, USA)	1. 20% 2. 25% 3. 40% 4. 80%	1. 2012 2. 2017 3. 2025 4. 2050	1990	CO2	Climate Action Plan For San Francisco	2011
Boston (Massachusetts, USA)	1. 25% 2. 80%	1. 2020 2. 2050	1990	GHG	Sparking Boston's Climate Revolution	2010
Seattle (Washington, USA)	1. 7% 2. 30% 3. 80%	1. 2012 2. 2024 3. 2050	1990	GHG	Seattle Climate Action Plan	2006
Portland (Oregon, USA)	1. 40% 2. 80%	1. 2030 2. 2050	1990	CO2	Climate Action Plan	2009
Oregon (USA)	1. 10% 2. 75%	1. 2020 2. 2050	1990	GHG	Oregon Global Warming Commission	2007
Albuquerque (New Mexico, USA)	80%	2050	2000	GHG	Climate Action Plan	2009
Berkeley (California, USA)	80%	2050	2000	GHG	Berkeley Climate Action Plan	2009
Bellingham (Washington, USA)	1. 64% 2. 70%	1. 2012 2. 2020	2000	GHG	Climate Protection Program	2010
Aspen (Colorado, USA)	1. 30% 2. 80%	1. 2020 2. 2050	2004	GHG	City of Aspen Canary Initiative Climate Action Plan	2007
Austin (Texas, USA)	99%	2020	2007	CO2	City of Austin 2010-2011 Climate Action Report	2011
Toronto (Ontario, Canada)	1. 6% 2. 30% 3. 80%	1. 2012 2. 2020 3. 2050	1990	GHG	Climate Change, Clean Air and Sustainable Energy Action Plan	2007
Calgary (Ontario, Canada)	1. 20% 2. 50% 3. 80%	1. 2020 2. 2036 3. 2050	1. 2005 2. 1990 3. 2005	GHG	Calgary Community GHG Reduction Plan	2006
Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada)	1. 6% 2. 33% 3. 80%	1. 2012 2. 2020 3. 2050	1. 1990 2. 2007 3. 1990	GHG	2008 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Summary and Methodologies	2009

Asia, Oceania

Municipality (State, Country	Reduction target	Target year	Base year	CO2/ GHG	Action plan	Established year
Sydney (NSW, Australia)	70%	2030	2006	GHG	Sustainable Sydney 2030	2011
Canberra (CT,Australia)	1. Peakout 2. 40% 3. 80% ④100%	1. 2013 2. 2020 3. 2050 ④2060	1990	GHG	Weathering the Change Draft Action Plan 2	2012
Yarra (VIC,Australia)	1. 25% 2. 100%	1. 2012 2. 2020	1996	GHG	Yarra Environment Strategy	2008
Wellington (NewZealand)	1. 30% 2. 80%	1. 2020 2. 2050		GHG	2010 Climate Change Action Plan	2010
Hong Kong (China)	25%	2030	2005	GHG	Green Hong Kong Carbon Audit	2007

Europe

Municipality (State, Country	Reduction target	Target year	Base year	CO2/ GHG	Action plan	Established year
London (UKGB)	60%	2025	1990	CO2	The London Plan 2011	2011
Bristol (UKGB)	40%	2020	2005	CO2	Climate Change and Energy Security Framework	2009
Paris (France)	1. 30% 2. 75%	1. 2020 2. 2050	2004	GHG	Paris Climate Protection Plan	2007
Paris (France)	1. 30% 2. 75%	1. 2020 2. 2050	2004	GHG	Paris Climate Protection Plan	2007
Lyon (France)	1. 20% 2. 75%	1. 2020 2. 2050	2000	CO2	conférence énergie climat	2011
Stockholm (Sweden)	1. 44% 2. 100%	1. 2015 2. 2050		CO2	The City of Stockholm's Climate Initiatives	2010
Amsterdam (Netherlands)	1. 40% 2. 75%	1. 2025 2. 2040	1990	CO2	Energiestrategie Amsterdam 2040	2010
Rotterdam (Netherlands)	50%	2025	1990	CO2	50% co2-reductie　Cityportal Rotterdam	2007
Utrecht (Netherlands)	100%	2030	1990	CO2	Programma Utrechtse Energie 2011-2014	2011
Birlin (Germany)	40%	2020	1990	CO2	Ziele und Grundlagen der Klimaschutzpolitik in Berlin	2008
Hamburg (Germany)	40%	2020	1990	CO2	Arbeiten am Masterplan für Hamburgs Klimazukunft	2008
Münster (Germany)	40%	2020	1990	CO2	Klimaschutzkonzept 2020 für Münster	2008
München (Germany)	50%	2030	1990	CO2	München für Klimaschutz	2007
Vienna (Austria)	21%	2020	1990	GHG	KLiP - The City of Vienna's Climate Protection Programme	2009
Oslo (Norway)	50%	2030	1991	GHG	Kommunale planer og vedtak om klima og energi - Miljøportalen - Oslo kommune	2005
Copenhagen (Demmark)	1. 20% 2. 100%	1. 2015 2. 2025	2005	CO2	Copenhagen Climate Plan	2009