How three cities are tackling the effects of climate changePARIS -- Fighting climate change means different things in different cities, as this snapshot illustrates:VancouverEnvironmentalism and tourism are intertwined in Vancouver, a city of 600,000 nestling between beautiful mountain peaks and the Pacific Ocean. In 2015, Vancouver set a target of 100 percent renewable energy by 2050. Like other port cities around the world, Vancouver is faced with rising seas and more destructive storms as a result of climate change, for which it intends to revamp storm-water systems and management. But that status may change as California ramps up to enact among the most ambitious environmental policies in the world. Last September, Governor Jerry Brown — who calls climate change "the existential threat of our time" — approved legislation requiring the state to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.

Source: The China Post December 01, 2016 16:07 UTC