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PLANET EARTH:OUR LOVING HOME
Global Cities: United Leadership on Climate Change - P2/2
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Halo respected viewers,
and welcome to
Planet Earth:
Our Loving Home.
On today's program,
we present
the concluding episode
of our two-part series
on the crucial role that
cities across our world
are playing in the efforts
to mitigate climate change.
Currently home to
half the Earth’s population,
and consuming 80% of
the world's energy supply,
cities have
a major impact on
our global environment.
The decisions and policies
made by urban leaders
on public transportation,
waste recycling, zoning,
building codes,
and green spaces can
have a dramatic effect
on our biosphere.
Over the past few years,
many metros have been
rising to the challenge to
lessen planetary warming
and are courageously
leading the way by making
sustainability a priority.
They also realize
the many benefits of
working cooperatively
together, and
several global organizations
have formed that serve
as effective platforms for
local government leaders
from around the world
to share their plans, ideas
and successful initiatives.
One of
these organizations is
ICLEI-Local Governments
for Sustainability,
an international association
of municipalities
whose primary mission
is to exchange
innovative ideas about
sustainable development.
With members
from more than
1,200 cities, towns
and counties from
70 different countries,
ICLEI is
the largest association
of local governments
in the world.
Another such group is the
World Mayor's Council
on Climate Change,
an alliance of cities
from across the continents
committed to addressing
the rapid heating
of our planet
and related issues
of global sustainability.
Founded in 2005,
the Council has over
50 members representing
a large network
of local governments
working together
to reduce global
greenhouse gas emissions.
Membership is open to
mayors and municipal heads
and the organization
is currently chaired by
the Honorable
Marcelo Ebrard, mayor
of Mexico City, Mexico.
United Cities and Local
Governments (UCLG)
is yet another global body
with similar goals.
With headquarters
in Barcelona, Spain,
the UCLG has more than
1000 member cities
across 95 countries,
and represent many local
government associations
around the world.
Its mission is to promote
unity and cooperation
among urban and
regional governments,
and to act as a focal point
for the exchange of ideas
and information regarding
a number of issues
of common concern,
including sustainability.
In 2010, these
organizations sponsored
two major conferences
for urban leaders.
From October 5-7, 2010,
ICLEI held
a three-day gathering
in Seoul, South Korea
entitled
“The Future of Cities.”
This global meeting
provided
an excellent opportunity
for municipal heads
to share ideas and plans,
especially in the area
of climate change.
There was solid agreement
among attendees
regarding the need
for cities to focus on
enhanced sustainability,
green policies, and
mitigating global warming.
The production
and consumption
of animal products
is the number one cause
of climate change.
According to researchers,
this enormously
damaging cycle
is the source
of more than 51% of
all human-induced global
greenhouse gas emissions.
Many municipalities,
aware of the relationship
between dietary choice
and planetary heating,
are including the reduction
of meat consumption in
their climate change plans.
To demonstrate
the importance of putting
green ideas into practice,
the second day
of the Future of Cities
conference was declared
to be a “meat-free day,”
to raise awareness
that the vegan lifestyle
is an effective, viable,
and intelligent solution
to planetary warming.
We should try to have
a diet that is thoughtful
about its impacts
on the Earth.
In cooperation with
hosting venue
Songdo Convensia and
the Meat Free Mondays
Korea group,
both a gourmet
vegan lunch and dinner
was served to the delegates.
Lee Hyun-Joo,
the president of
Meat Free Mondays Korea,
informed attendees about
the benefits of nutritious
low-carbon meals.
It is the symbol of the best
solution to climate change,
for the health of the
Earth and its residents.
The fact that people
all over the world
can be happy by sharing
such a diet together
shows our alternative
for the future.
[The speech] was sort of
a total solution,
information for us
to really give up meat.
I like this dish very much,
very delicious.
It looks very tasty
when you receive it,
and secondly
it also is very tasty.
It’s a very important
statement to make
when we say that we are
building eco-efficient
resilient cities, which this
conference is all about.
Abdul Sathar, a member
of the Kurunegala
Municipal Council
in Sri Lanka commented
on how the meat-free day
served as encouragement
to incorporate vegan fare
into his city’s
eco-friendly measures.
We also discussed
in our country also,
we’ll introduce
this meat-free meal.
It’s very nice,
very delicious
and good for health.
Be Veg,
Go Green
2 Save the Planet!
Be Veg,
Go Green
2 Save the Planet!
A few weeks later,
on November 21, 2010,
city officials
from around the globe
had the opportunity
to meet again,
this time in Mexico City,
for the World Mayors
Summit on Climate.
Co-sponsored by the
Mexico City government,
the World Mayors Council
on Climate Change,
ICLEI-Local Governments
for Sustainability,
and United Cities
and Local Governments,
the Summit
was attended by 3,000
local and regional leaders
including 138 mayors
from 43 nations.
Officials discussed
the urgent need to
address climate change,
including
taking immediate actions
to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions
at the local level.
Supreme Master Ching Hai,
world renowned
humanitarian, author
and spiritual teacher,
has frequently spoken
about the need
for governments
to take leadership
in humanity’s response
to global warming.
In a November 2009
videoconference
in Mexico,
she urged all world leaders
to take action now
to shift their nations
to the cost-effective,
planet-saving vegan diet.
The governments
have the power to make
this urgent transition to
the organic vegan diet.
They should ban
all animal products,
informing people
about the facts of
animal products,
explaining that because
it’s poisoning their
co-citizens and piling up
far more costs than
any gains, economically
and environmentally,
and because it’s eating up
our planet.
According to respected
Dutch scientists, tens
of trillions of US dollars
can be saved by
world governments if all
the world becomes vegan.
In addition, the
governments of the world
have the power
to make the veg trend
an exciting movement
for everyone toward
a healthier lifestyle.
Of course,
climate change is directly
linked with consumption.
I think in the future,
the culture
of vegetarianism,
and of course,
organic production
must be very well
promoted also among
all the countries
and communities.
The implications are
that it is unsustainable.
We can't keep living with
the diets that we've had.
The responsibility
that we have as mayors,
is to inform the citizens,
inform the people out there
with enough information
where they can
make conscious choices.
All of us have to
work together to
give people information
on what the impacts of
their current choices are,
and then what choices
they may have to improve
the status they are in.
In all our schools,
we have the possibility
for the students to choose
between vegetarian food
and some meat or fish.
So every day,
they have the possibility
to choose a better food,
if you look at it
from the climate.
And just a few months ago,
we decided
that once a month we will
only have vegetarian food
in our schools.
We would like to
make the students who say
that they need meat
to choose vegetarian food
and to taste it......
You know, it's much better
to eat vegetarian food
than to eat meat.
The movement just
keeps getting bigger and
it gets bigger because
it's the right thing to do.
It's the right thing to do
for us, it's the right thing
to do for our kids,
our grandkids,
our community,
our country, our globe.
It can be done,
and it will be done,
because it has to be done.
Be Veg,
Go Green,
2 Save the Planet
At the conclusion
of the Summit,
135 mayors signed the
Mexico City Mayors Pact,
an agreement
to reduce the generation
of greenhouse gases
through local laws
and initiatives.
These benevolent
and caring leaders
also agreed to register
their climate actions
in the Cities Climate
Registry (CCCR)
at the Bonn Centre
for Local Climate Action
and Reporting
and to provide
regular updates
on their progress toward
lessening greenhouse gases
in their respective cities.
Currently many metros
around the world
are heeding the call
to respond to our planet’s
climate emergency, and
are actively encouraging
their residents to eat
more plant-based fare.
Vancouver,
one of the largest cities
in Canada, is providing
financial incentives
to help its population
make an important change
in diet.
During 2010, Vancouver,
allocated US$100,000
to support
community plant-based
food endeavors.
These include purchasing
organic produce
from wholesalers in order
to sell at cost price to
people with low incomes.
Neighborhood
composting systems
have also been developed.
Mr. David Cadman, a
Vancouver City Councilor,
as well as President of
ICLEI,
expressed his view
on the shift towards
a plant-based lifestyle.
I think moving towards
a vegan diet
is absolutely essential.
When we look at
the inputs that
go into raising animals,
whether it’s land use,
or whether it’s food,
the corn and grains
that are grown
to feed those animals,
or water consumption,
we cannot continue
to live as dependent
as we are on meat.
If you begin to
transform your own life,
if you become a vegetarian,
if you walk more,
you will be healthier,
the planet will be healthier,
and you will begin to
transform the way in which
we live on this planet.
To close, we would like
to extend many thanks
to the local government
leaders, members
of international bodies
such as the
World Mayors Council
on Climate Change,
ICLEI-Local Governments
for Sustainability,
and United Cities
and Local Governments,
and all others who are
working with earnestness
to mitigate global warming.
We are especially
grateful to those officials
who are promoting the
planet-cooling vegan diet.
May all governments
soon share the good news
about the world-saving
plant-based lifestyle
with their citizens.
Thank you kind viewers
for your company today
on Planet Earth:
Our Loving Home.
Enlightening Entertainment
is up next
on Supreme Master
Television,
after Noteworthy News.
May our world
and all her inhabitants
always be at peace.
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