Talk:R20 Regions of Climate Action

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Contested deletion[edit]

This article should not be speedily deleted for lack of asserted importance because... the R20 is an international organization that is working to combat climate change. It is working in partnership with the United Nations. It has 24 Members, 43 Partners and 2 Observers, and it's activities connect more than 560 subnational and local governments around the world. As mentioned, the Founding Chair is Arnold Schwarzenegger who is still actively involved in the R20. ^[1] . The President is Michele Sabban, Vice-President of the Regional Council of Ile-de-France.

Background: Based on the success of informal sub-national partnerships over the past three years, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and other sub-national leaders decided to formalize their working relationship and add new partners by creating the R20 Regions of Climate Action (R20). UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon and the new director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, Christiana Figueres, also urged these leaders to formalize this “bottom up” approach to help them secure a post-Kyoto Protocol agreement in the future.

The R20 was therefore incorporated as a non-profit organization with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and regional offices in the US, and soon also in China. This unique public-private partnership brings these entities together to implement measurable, large-scale, low-carbon and climate resilient economic development projects at the sub-national level, which can simultaneously solve the climate crisis and build sustainable regional economies. Projects are already being designed and can therefore now expand rapidly on a global scale.

^ "Climat et economie". University of Geneva's Climate Conference. Retrieved 2 May 2012.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jennasgadvisors (talk • contribs) 23:13, 2 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

year of formation[edit]

changed the year of formation according to the information presented on "http://regions20.org/about-r20" to 2010 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.115.249.200 (talk) 22:38, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Climat et economie". University of Geneva's Climate Conference. Retrieved 2 May 2012.

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