Rabat – Rabat aspires to join the C40 group, a network of mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities who collaborate to deliver urgent action needed to confront the climate crisis.
Vice-president of the Municipal Council of Rabat Kamal El Amrani told Moroccan M24 that the city aspires to join this network and act within it to achieve environmental resilience.
El Amrani will participate in the C40 summit in Buenos Aires alongside a hundred mayors from around the world.
The summit intends to explore the best practices in the fight against climate change, through means to reduce carbon emissions.
The official summit website explains that the event allows mayors to show the progress of their cities “in confronting the climate crisis during the pandemic, highlighting how they are accelerating the delivery of their climate commitments.”
C40 claims that member cities earn their membership through taking action. “C40’s most distinguishing feature is that it operates on performance-based requirements, not membership fees,” the group’s website says.
The network’s “Leadership Standards” set minimum requirements for cities to become members.
One of C40 leadership standards involves adopting “an inclusive and resilient” climate action plan aligned with the 1.5 degree celsius ambition of the Paris Agreement.
Rabat has shown environmentally friendly initiatives before such as using recycled water to irrigate the hundreds of hectares of the city’s green spaces, 95% of which are nurtured using this method.
El Amrani added that this policy responds to royal directives for the preservation of underground and surface water resources, in order to cope with water scarcity threatening Morocco.
Rabat’s municipality is also developing other environmental programs to cope with the management of household waste.
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