Climate Star 2007 – The European Award for Local Climate Protection Activities

For the third time, the “Climate Alliance of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples” is inviting all European cities, municipalities and districts to present their climate protection activities and apply for a Climate Star. The Climate Star is to award outstanding activities and to document experience and good practice at the local level. With the awarding scheme, the Climate Alliance wants to point out the variety of local climate protection strategies and measures and motivate more local authorities to get involved.

The Climate Star award 2007 focuses on sustainable mobility. Traffic is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions and meanwhile causes approximately 30 percent of the CO2 emissions in Europe. For the world-wide climate protection we do not only need European and international climate negotiations but first and foremost the local level and the people: Climate protection begins with the everyday journeys of each individual.

Eligible are all local authorities, cities, municipalities and districts in Europe, that send the registration form per mail, fax, or e-mail up to the 31 May 2007 to the European Secretariat of the Climate Alliance. Afterwards, the municipalities will get the application paper per e-mail, in which is asked for a description of their climate protection activities and for a presentation of the most interesting projects in the area of mobility up to the 30 June 2007. The award ceremony will take place at 23 November 2007 in Baden in the course of a major public event, upon invitation of the federal state of Lower Austria.

Further information and registration form:
http://www.klimaschutz.kbserver.de/460.html

The “Climate Alliance of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples / Alianza del Clima” is Europe’s largest city network dedicated to climate protection. The 1400 member municipalities have entered into a partnership with indigenous rainforest peoples to protect the world’s climate. The city network was founded in 1990 with the mission to elaborate and implement local climate protection measures especially in the fields of energy and mobility and to cooperate with indigenous peoples to protect the tropical rainforests.

Climate Alliance / Klima-Bündnis / Alianza del Clima e.V.
European Secretariat
Galvanistr. 28, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
Fon 49-69-717139-0, Fax 49-69-717139-93
europe@climatealliance.org
http://www.climatealliance.org

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