Unlocking Sustainable Futures: City-to-City Collaboration

How Japan's City-to-City Collaboration Program Drives Urban Decarbonization

Since the COP26 held in November 2021, the participating governments determined that actions must be accelerated and applied locally to limit the temperature increase to above 1.5ºC and jointly achieve their NDCs.

Based on this, the concept created by Japan of Carbon Neutral Cities was adopted, which are aware of their impact on the planet by using 3% of the available surface area and are responsible for 70% of global emissions.

In this way, and seeking to raise awareness among national and international citizens, the international collaboration program City-to-City for Carbon Neutral Societies was created in 2013 to promote the progress of cities in developing countries towards the implementation of environmentally friendly infrastructure, always with the support and knowledge of a Japanese city.

As an example, Chile is the first country in the American continent to participate in this alliance, linking the municipality of Renca together with the city of Toyama, managing to formulate the "SDG Future Plan and Energy Vision," whose objective is to cooperate in the installation of renewable energy sources in the Chilean municipality to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

Material Source: Ministry of the Environment, Japan