1. Earth Hour City
Challenge
Samantha Smith
Head of Global Climate Initiative
WWF International
© NASA
© NASA

2. Cities must lead the
global energy
transition
• The global urban population is expected to have doubled by 2050
• Cities cause more than 70% of global CO2 emissions
• $350 trillion will be invested in cities during the coming 3 decades
© NASA
© NASA

3. Big carbon
footprints
But huge opportunities
for reduction

5. Three prerequisits for tapping the
urban transformation potential
• Aggressive energy
reduction goals
• Best practice urban
planning
• Innovative financing
strategies

7. WWF’s Earth Hour City Challenge
• Designed by WWF and run in collaboration with ICLEI
• Calls for ambitious, holistic, inspiring and credible plans for
low carbon development and for dramatically increasing the
use of sustainable and efficient renewable energy solutions in
the next few decades
• First international pilot only includes 6 countries but
considerable expansion planned for 2013-2014.
• City candidates report on cCCR, the same platform as used for
the Mexico city pact

8. EHCC Status 2012-13
 Canada: 11 registered cities
 India: 6 registered cities
 Italy: 10 registered cities
 Norway: 7 registered cities
 Sweden: 10 registered cities
 US: 34 registered cities
•http://citiesclimateregistry.org/cities/earth-hour-city-
challenge/

9. International expert jury 2012-2013
• Konrad Otto Zimmermann, Secretary General of ICLEI
• Conor Riffle, Head of CDP Cities
• Simon Giles, Senior Principal Intelligent Cities, Accenture Global,
Accenture
• Martha Delgado, Minister of the Environment of Mexico City
• Dan Hoornweg, Lead Urban Advisor – Climate Change and Cities,
World Bank
• Christiana Figueres, UNFCCC Executive Secretary
• Pietro Laureano, architect and urban planner, UNESCO consultant

10. Join the Earth
Hour City Challenge!
www.panda.org/ehcc