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The 2019 C40 World Mayors Summit was also the stage for Mike Bloomberg and eight U.S. Mayors to release the American Cities Climate Challenge Climate Action Playbook, a strategic guide to accelerate and deepen climate action in cities. The Playbook highlights 30 high-impact actions that are currently being implemented in 25 of the largest U.S. cities through the Bloomberg Philanthropies American Cities Climate Challenge. If the 100 largest U.S. cities took on the strategies outlined in the Playbook, their total combined emissions would drop by 28.5%, meeting their share of the U.S. national target of reducing emissions by 26-28% by 2025 - the goal set under the Paris Climate Agreement.
Download the Climate Action Playbook here.
Learn more about the announcement here.
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti was named the new C40 Cities Chair, building on Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's outstanding success as Chair over the last few years.
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ADDITIONAL NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
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In Rwanda, Janvier Ngabonziza, right, conducts a verbal autopsy by interviewing Lyiza Uwimbabazi about her sister who passed away.
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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces $120 Million Reinvestment to Expand its Data for Health Initiative
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Bloomberg Philanthropies announced the next stage in its groundbreaking initiative to help governments in developing countries gather accurate data about the health of their citizens. With an additional $120 million in funding over four years, Data for Health will expand its partnership from 20 to 25 countries—reaching 1.5 billion people—to help strengthen the quality of their birth and death registrations and use of that data by decision makers. In addition, select countries will monitor noncommunicable disease risk factors such as tobacco use through innovative mobile surveys and will establish cancer registries for the first time.
Read more about Data for Health here.
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