Cities suffer climate impacts in silence
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Cities suffer climate
impacts in silence
As the world continues to warm, cities are housing ever greater numbers − yet they have no voice in climate talks.
By Jan Rocha
SÃO PAULO, 19 November, 2016 − Cities are both a major cause of carbon emissions and the most affected by them − at the same time, the villain and victim.
And that is precisely why they should have a place at the table of future climate change negotiations, according to a special report presented by the Brazilian Panel on Climate Change (BPCC) at the UN’s COP22 climate conference, which ended yesterday in Marrakech, Morocco.