POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter o: Chicago Climate Exchange, Critical Infrastructure, Compost
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California, oregon, washington, the new england states, and a handful of others in the united. States, and tokyo and kyoto within japan, share many similarities with germany, great britain, the. Netherlands, sweden, and denmark in terms of their interest in introducing stringent energy efficiency programs. California is a subnational actor within the united states in ways that are somewhat comparable to the role of germany within the european union. California has been a pace setter on a number of fronts. In 1947 los angeles was the first place in the united states to establish an air pollution control district. Protection campaign that assists cities in adopting policies and implementing quantifiable measures to reduce local greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. The cci has obtained agreements from manufacturers of energy efficient products for discount pricing to facilitate cities" efforts at retrofitting buildings to be more energy efficient. Cci has a partnership with the c40 large cities.
