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<DIV><SPAN class=213363210-29012007><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
size=2>Excuse me while I reach for the sick bag. Under Ken Livingstone's
watch, some 1900 new sets of expensive gas and electricity-guzzling traffic
lights have been inflicted on an already grotesquely over-regulated city. Many
of them are at tiny crossings in quiet areas. There is a brand new set at
the end of my one-way street with a left-turn<SPAN
class=332485610-29012007>-</SPAN>only into a one-way road. Thanks, Ken, once
more you have succeeded in conjuring congestion where there was none
before. </FONT></FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=213363210-29012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Martin</FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
sustran-discuss-bounces+martincassini=blueyonder.co.uk@list.jca.apc.org
[mailto:sustran-discuss-bounces+martincassini=blueyonder.co.uk@list.jca.apc.org]
<B>On Behalf Of </B>Eric Britton (ChoiceMail)<BR><B>Sent:</B> 29 January 2007
10:41<BR><B>To:</B> NewMobilityCafe@yahoogroups.com;
Kyotoworldcities@yahoogroups.com<BR><B>Cc:</B>
Sustran-discuss@jca.apc.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> [sustran] 'London must take
lead on climate change'<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><!-- Converted from text/rtf format --><BR>
<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>World Economic Forum -
'London must take lead on climate change'</FONT></SPAN><SPAN
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<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mayor of London Ken
Livingstone will say in Davos today that he aims to make London the world's
leading centre for research and financial development on climate change over
the next five years. The Mayor is in Davos to attend the World Economic Forum.
He will be concentrating today (Thursday) on how government and business can
work with cities to accelerate global emissions reductions. London established
the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group - to accelerate emissions
reductions in the world's largest cities. Last August the Mayor announced a
partnership with the Bill Clinton's Foundation to take this
forward.</FONT></B></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT
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<P align=left><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>(Media-Newswire.com) -
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone will say in Davos today that he aims to make
London the world's leading centre for research and financial development on
climate change over the next five years.<BR><BR>The Mayor is in Davos to
attend the World Economic Forum. He will be concentrating today ( Thursday )
on how government and business can work with cities to accelerate global
emissions reductions.<BR><BR>Ken Livingstone said
today:<BR><BR></FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial
size=2>'</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT face=Arial size=2>The challenge
of climate change requires immediate action across governments and business to
effect change.<BR><BR>'Cities produce 75 per cent of global carbon emissions
and it is therefore in cities that the battle against climate change will have
to be won.<BR><BR>'To win this battle three things are
required.<BR><BR>'First, determination to tackle climate change and not denial
of its reality or consequences.<BR><BR>'Second, the most sophisticated
financial institutions to respond to carbon trading and investment in new
technologies.<BR><BR>'Third, state of the art scientific and technical
research facilities to develop the technological solutions of the
future.<BR><BR>'A number of cities have parts of this solution. But London is
the only one that brings together all three. My administration is totally
focused on this.<BR><BR>'That is why I am setting the target that in the next
five years London should become the undisputed world leader in research and
financial development on climate change.<BR><BR>'Climate change is a
tremendous challenge to humanity. But for London it is also a tremendous
opportunity. The world is shifting to a new technical and financial
system in which we do not produce and waste energy, in the form of carbon, but
must conserve it. London has the potential to be at the centre of this shift
and intends to work with all the other great world cities to achieve it. That
is why London established the C40 group of major world cities on climate
change.'<BR><BR>ENDS<BR><BR><BR>Notes to Editors<BR><BR><BR>London established
the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group - to accelerate emissions
reductions in the world's largest cities. Last August the Mayor announced a
partnership with the Bill Clinton's Foundation to take this
forward.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang=en-us></SPAN></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>