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International standards for climate-friendly cities

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More effort should be put into standardization as a route to achieving international consensus and action on climate change. Cities are a good example of what is being achieved through this arguably unfashionable mechanism.

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  1. Victoria Hurth is in the Faculty of Business, Plymouth University,

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  2. Patricia McCarney is Director Global Cities Institute, University of Toronto and President & CEO World Council on City Data,

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Hurth, V., McCarney, P. International standards for climate-friendly cities. Nature Clim Change 5, 1025–1026 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2823

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