An essential and ambitious climate strategy | City of Geneva

A real social project

The city’s climate strategy implies a deep change in paradigm. Indeed, drastically limit CO2 emissions requires Review in depth the ways of moving,, consume or work.

Innovative in its positioning, the climate strategy not only aims to reduce direct carbon emissions on its territory, but also the indirect emissions generated abroad to manufacture or consume products used in the town.

It is also ambitious in its implementation, because It points to the urgency to act at all levels:: ecological,, social And economic with the idea of ​​establishing a decarbonized company, but also a more united city,, healthier and soothed.

Key measures to achieve the essential transition

To achieve this objective, the Administrative Council has based on Cantonal climate plan (CCP)by adapting it to the skills, missions and specificities of the municipality.

On this basis, he adopted 30 Objectives And 78 measures,, divided into 9 strategic axes:: consumption of goods and services,, energy and buildings,, mobility,, regional planning,, health and protection of the population,, Biodiversity and natural environments,, Population mobilization,, financial center And exemplarity of the administration.

The city of Geneva pioneer and model

In order to participate in the global effort to reach carbon neutrality, themunicipal administration aims to be responsible and exemplaryby accelerating the measures already taken by developing new actions. To carry out this real company project, the city of Geneva wants to show the way And arouse population support.

A need to act

The city of Geneva declared in February 2020 the climate emergency and adopted two objectives::

• There 60% decrease in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (Implementation of the Paris Agreement) and carbon neutrality in 2050. In April 2021, the city took a series of urgent measures to set up to reduce its carbon footprint.
• L’Adoption of this climate strategy A mark, for the City of Geneva, a new stage of its action by integrating climatic objectives into all of its public policies.