9/24/2023 0 Comments Ow many cities in the United States have joined the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy![]() But within the global context, Peduto is in good company. In the US, Pittsburgh’s mayor may be one of the most outspoken about the perils of shunning the Paris accord. Peduto explains how his municipal government identified and mitigated “rivers of carbon lakes of methane”, using advanced technologies to reduce the rates of bus idling and pipeline gas leaks. “We diversified our economy and showed that a city based on one industry can come back with a diversified portfolio that is the future.” “It wasn’t only a battle to reclaim our air and water,” he told Al Jazeera. ![]() “We may not be the model but we’ve had to overcome so much more than other cities,” said Peduto at COP25. The mayor likes to brag about running the first government in the world to ban fracking and his appearance in Madrid at the United Nations climate gathering was no exception. Peduto, a colourful ambassador for his city’s dramatic renaissance, was the subject last year of a documentary film, Paris to Pittsburgh, which chronicled the environmental volte-face by the city of bridges in western Pennsylvania. “I can assure you that we will follow the guidelines of the Paris Agreement for our people, our economy and future,” Bill Peduto, the mayor of Pittsburgh, said at the time. Madrid, Spain – In a 2017 address distancing himself from the landmark climate agreement, United States President Donald Trump said he was “elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris”.īut perhaps no US mayor has quite so forcefully pushed back against Washington’s move as the man representing the boom-and-bust steel city.
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