R20 Regions of Climate Action

Michèle Sabban (President), Christophe Nuttall (Managing Director), Arnold Schwarzenegger (founder )

R20 Regions of Climate Action is a non-governmental (NGO ) and non-profit organization that was founded by Arnold Schwarzenegger in cooperation with the United Nations in 2010.

Overview

The initiative has set itself the goal to put the climate where already a lot happening: in the regions with local projects in urban areas or in company. R20, which have their headquarters in Geneva, would therefore help countries, regions and initiatives around the world to develop their projects and best-practice examples and make them accessible to a wide public.

Board of Directors

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the founder of the organization, Michèle Sabban the current President, Christophe Nuttall is the CEO and Terry Tamminen is the strategic advisor to the Board.

Organization

Meanwhile, already include 25 members and 43 partners and 2 national governments to R20 initiative. Thus a total of 560 sub - national and regional governments are already networked world. The R20 initiative pursues the objectives regions through new "green jobs" economy to strengthen, while improving the environment by reducing energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. These local and regional approaches should help to achieve the shared global objectives on climate change and to promote a green economy.

Projects

The bottom-up philosophy makes it possible to develop and implement regional projects that are tailored to the expertise of experts and companies in the R20 initiative. These can then be carried out in the long term by competent local decision makers. Priority projects dealing with environment-friendly public transport, energy-efficient building standards, LED street lighting, renewable energy on a small scale, and the use of waste and sewage sludge for energy. To implement these projects R20 offers its members the following programs: Regions in action, in action and Finance Technologies in action. This best-practice experiences are exchanged, conducted technical training and consulting services as well as communication activities.

Periodic events

To the knowledge and experience of the R20 members, an annual conference is organized under involvement of key decision-makers and multipliers. In March 2012, the first of these conferences was titled " The Road to Rio: Regions building the Green Economy " held in Geneva. The second conference will be held in Vienna from 31 January to 1 February 2013. Under the title " Implementing the Sustainable Energy Future" high-level experts and decision-makers together with the members of R20 over the energy transition, Green Economy and Innovative Financing will exchange for two days.

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