South Africa’s West Rand District Municipality covers three big, polluting mining areas but has no climate mitigation plan to prevent global warming.
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State governments, councils, researchers and entrepreneurs are slowing our slide to disaster – but they need others to step up.
Carbon accounting isn’t always simple, so it’s important to make it easier to measure and reduce emissions at the local level. And that’s ultimately the starting point for global climate action.
There are precedents for trying to make the industries responsible for climate change foot the bill for adapting to a changed climate.
More than 200 mayors have committed their cities to stick with the Paris climate deal no matter what the US does. Electric vehicles offer a promising route to making good on that pledge.
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Professor of Law Emeritus, Vermont Law & Graduate School
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Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University
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PhD Candidate in climate change and sustainability, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg
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Assistant Lecturer: Energy Studies, University of Johannesburg