Cool City Challenge: Empowering Cities to Become Carbon Neutral by 2030

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Cool City Challenge: Empowering Cities to Become Carbon Neutral by 2030

Cities generate 70% of the planet’s carbon footprint and citizens generate 70% of those emissions through our daily lifestyle choices. Cities and citizens can empower each other to reduce their carbon footprint and then enter onto a path of becoming carbon neutral.

You need a community to raise a carbon neutral city. Not just any community, but a carbon literate, empowered and galvanized community where everyone has a stake in its future. Cool Block helps create such communities.

The Cool Block program activates a whole system by creating bottom-up change from the demand-side (consumers and voters) and connecting it to top-down change from the supply-side (technology and policy adoption). The resultant community synergy can empower social, environmental and economic outcomes not imagined possible.

The Cool City Challenge (CCC) is just such a moonshot strategy. It offers communities an audacious goal, a challenge prize and a compelling path by which to achieve both. Specifically, it invites and supports early adopter cities to embark on one of the climate moonshots of our time: becoming a carbon neutral city by 2030.