It seems that creating a safe and living future for humanity is a clear goal for everyone. However, in 2025, the climate movement has never faced more hostile and coordinated opposition.
Within the new American administration – and a growing number of political parties around the world – we now have two climate denying that they publicly dismantle years of painful climate diplomacy and work. This creates great risks to all of us.
We already see severe consequences for the failure of national countries to do enough. Forest fires, hurricanes, high sea levels, and intense heat levels have become more frequent and severe. Now exceeds the levels of carbon dioxide in Jona more than 420 parts per million – 20 percent of what they were when the United Nations Climate negotiations began nearly three decades ago.
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But we distinguish 55Y The anniversary of the Earth’s Day, under the slogan “Our Power, Our Planet”, can extract hope from the difference that cities, societies and individuals still can do to address the climate crisis. Cities prove that the way of life is more green and healthy not only possible, but already provides concrete benefits-from well-paid green functions to less polluted neighborhoods.
The first land day in 1970 ignited a movement in the United States that led to the clean air law, the clean water law and the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency. Today, the United States may be managed by those who seem ready to calm the economic opportunities for the green economy, but cities around the world are already captured.
From London to Los Angeles, Saw Paulo to Seoul, cities are working to run a huge climatic movement that has a real effect. London has placed the largest clean air area in the world, which helped reduce emissions and clean the air significantly. The city also provided its pure goal to 2030, which helps to accelerate green investment, promote business and develop a low -carbon economy. London knows that it will be stupid to miss the economic opportunity in the twenty -first century, and many other cities are not only seen and learned, but simulates this example, with new and exciting climate initiatives.
In New York City, local law 97 imposes that large buildings cut carbon. Energy costs for municipal buildings in Rio de Janeiro will be transferred in half by switching to renewable energy sources. Amsterdam has a goal to gradually get rid of natural gas by 2040 while isolating the homes of the city’s most vulnerable city in the city. Copenhagen on the right path to become the first neutral city of carbon by the end of this year, thanks to the investment of wind energy and regions heating. Throughout Africa, cities such as Nairobi and Fritown are grown millions of trees to cool the streets and fight harsh weather.
More than half of the world’s population (56 percent of people) now live in cities, and urban areas generate about 80 percent of global GDP. Throughout history, cities have been the axes of progress at the forefront of innovation. With national governments retreating from their climatic obligations, cities are now players of moving to a more green and more environmentally responsibility era. They climb and create not only clean power, but the momentum that is urgently necessary to achieve a more green and safer future.
We hope that this citizens around the world will encourage not to lose confidence and continue to pressure their national governments to do more before it is too late.
The first Earth Day mobilized 20 million people to demand action. Today, more than a billion people participate annually. Therefore, let’s use this moment to harness our collective strength, retreat against acquired interests and continue the struggle for a better and brighter future for our planet.
Sadiq Khan is the current mayor of London and co-chair of C-40 cities. Dennis Hayes is organized for the first land day and works as a chairman of Fakhri Earthday.org.
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