Politics & Government
Public Invited to US Conference of Mayors' Climate Protection Award Presentation of $10,000
Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl will be presented with the 2011 U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Climate Protection Award on Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 10 a.m. at the Evanston Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd. in Evanston. A check for $10,000 from Walmart will be donated by the Mayor to an Evanston environmental not-for-profit organization to be announced at the event.
Who: US Conference of Mayors Executive Directors Kevin McCarty and Debra DeHaney-Howard, Mayor Tisdahl and Walmart
What: 2011 US Conference of Mayors’ Climate Protection Award Check Presentation to Evanston Environmental Not-for-profit
When: Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 10 a.m.
Where: Evanston, Ecology Center, 2024 McCormick Blvd., Evanston
The annual awards program in its fifth year recognizes mayors for innovative practices in their cities that increase energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. An independent panel of judges selected the winners from a pool of 130 applicants.
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The U.S. Conference of Mayors is the official nonpartisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,210 such cities in the country today, and each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.
"It is an honor to be recognized for our Evanston Climate Action Plan, where our community leaders and the public identified more than 200 strategies to guide the city as we move forward in reducing our carbon emissions," said Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl.
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Beginning with the City Council’s unanimous affirmation of the mayor’s action to join as a signatory to the Conference’s Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, the city went to work on developing its Evanston Climate Action Plan (ECAP). Drawing upon the input of more 130 community members and more than 200 identified strategies to reduce greenhouse gases throughout the city, the mayor and city departments have used the ECAP to achieve its goal of reducing the city’s emissions by 13 percent by 2013. Its 2010 greenhouse gas emissions inventory shows a 22 percent reduction in municipal emissions below the 2005 baseline (reduction of an estimated 24,560 Metric Tons of CO2e). Learn more about Evanston's Sustainability efforts here>>>
