Dallas

The City of Dallas is building an alliance between the city and key businesses to help achieve the Comprehensive Environmental & Climate Action Plan (CECAP) in a way that promotes equity, protects the environment, and supports the economy. Based on the city’s emissions breakdown and environmental priorities, the high impact sectors that are the focus of the city-business partnership are: built environment, energy, transport and waste. Dallas is now in the process of bringing together a group of environmentally leading businesses across the priority sectors that will work with the city to co-create and implement environmental policies, pilot innovative sustainability projects and provide best practice on corporate climate action to other organizations in the city and across the world through the CBCA global network

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Lisbon

Compromisso Verde, launched in 2020, is Lisbon’s challenge to local companies to implement measures across energy, water, circular economy, and mobility, to contribute to the achievement of Lisbon’s sustainability goals. Over 200 companies have signed up to Compromisso Verde, demonstrating the ambition of the private sector to support the city’s climate action plan. In 2022 Lisbon will be reviewing the progress of the commitments, and exploring opportunities to engage in depth with local companies and communities to meet the ambitious target of a cumulative capacity of 103MW of Solar PV installed by 2030.

Manchester

The Manchester Climate Change Partnership, established in 2018, brings together organisations from the city’s public, private, community, faith and academic sectors that share the common goal of achieving the ambitious objectives and targets in the Manchester Climate Change Framework 2020-25. To achieve this, they will take urgent action within the scope of their own activities, and work collaboratively through the Partnership to help others in the wider Manchester community and economy to take action  to achieve the City’s goal of becoming zero carbon by 2038, at the latest.

The Partnership is currently focused on refreshing the City’s Climate Change Framework to demonstrate the scale of action required to reach a 50% reduction in emissions. Alongside this, work is underway to further develop the Partnership by forming and strengthening expert advisory groups who will inform and scrutinize activity;  identifying city-wide challenges  that partners partner can tackle collaboratively, hoping to replicate the success of the Zero Carbon New Build Task Group; and providing opportunities for partners to showcase their activity, best practice and share learning amongst their peers. In addition, members will demonstrate best practice and climate ambition through actions such as setting science-based targets and publicly reporting their environmental actions.

New York

The NYC Mayor's Office of Climate and Environmental Justice works to ensure that New York City is prepared to withstand and emerge stronger from the impacts of climate change; mitigate its greenhouse gas emissions; and address needed remediation and environmental coordination efforts from an equity and public health perspective.

The NYC Carbon Challenge is a voluntary leadership initiative and public-private partnership between the Mayor's Office of Climate & Environmental Justice and leaders in the private, institutional, and non-profit sectors who have committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 30% or more over ten years. With nearly 70% of NYC’s emissions coming from buildings, this partnership with the private sector is a key tool in achieving the city’s emission reduction targets. 13 leading participants in the challenge have committed to achieving Carbon Neutrality in select buildings within their NYC portfolios by 2030, and the city is now working to increase this number and support businesses to scale this ambition throughout their global operations.

Stockholm

The Stockholm Climate Pact founded in 2007 is a network between the City of Stockholm and over 300 businesses and organisations with the purpose of helping to decarbonise the city, share best practice and provide input on local and national environmental policies. The Stockholm Climate Pact includes a number of sub-groups, such as Climate Pact Plus for the most environmentally ambitious members who have committed to being fossil-free by 2030 among other climate actions, Climate Pact delivers which is focused on decarbonising the delivery and logistics industry in Stockholm, and a recently launched sub-group focused on reducing plastics and waste within the city.

Tel Aviv

In 2022, Tel Aviv-Yafo ranked second in the world’s best clean-tech ecosystems, with the city having the highest ratio of startups to residents in the world. Tel Aviv-Yafo is now looking to harness this innovative business ecosystem to support ambitious climate targets. Through Tel Aviv’s Green Label for Business programme, small businesses such as offices and restaurants are encouraged to adopt environmentally friendly practices, with over 170 businesses signed up. The city is now looking to build on this progress and deepen engagement with both small businesses and larger businesses in the city alike. In 2022 the city will be looking to establish a group of environmentally leading businesses in order to collaborate on ways to advance the city’s climate goals.

Vancouver

In Vancouver, the City and the Vancouver Economic Commission have been engaging businesses in the development of the Zero Emission Economic Transition Action Plan (ZEETAP). The Plan provides a roadmap for private sector transformation to achieve the goals of the City’s Climate Emergency Action Plan and reduce emissions by 50% by 2030. The Vancouver Economic Commission has a number of programmes to collaborate with businesses, including a challenge based programme to allow businesses to trial innovative solutions to the City and other major asset holders in the region, including the regional transit authority. Working with CBCA, Vancouver is looking to develop a tracking and measurement methodology for industry-based emissions, and to engage local businesses around the transition to electric vehicles in commercial fleets through group purchasing. 

London Business Climate Leaders

In 2018, Mayor Sadiq Khan launched the London Business Climate Leaders (LBCL) initiative, which inspired the development of C40’s City-Business Climate Alliance (CBCA) programme. Through LBCL, the Mayor is working with 11 prominent London businesses to help meet his ambitious target for London to become a zero carbon city by 2030. Businesses within the network have a collective annual turnover of around £192 billion and represent over 165,000 employees in London. Their workplaces also occupy over 28 million square feet of London’s commercial buildings. London has been an active fellow city member of the CBCA network, with high-profile members speaking in CBCA webinars. The LBCL model is an inspiration for other cities in working with businesses to deliver climate action.

Boston Green Ribbon Commission

In Boston, the Boston Green Ribbon Commission was launched in the fall of 2010 at the request of then-Mayor Thomas Menino with the core “theory of change” that by directly engaging the city’s key business and civic leaders in the design and implementation of the City’s climate adaptation and mitigation strategy, the GRC could accelerate change and match the scale of transformation to the scope of the challenge. Over the last decade, the work has resulted in critical contributions to the development of the City of Boston’s climate strategy. Climate Ready Boston is now leading to direct investment in resilience projects and regulations to guide future development; and the Carbon Free Boston report is helping to shape the city’s strategy to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, with a strong emphasis on ways to achieve equitable outcomes for socially vulnerable populations in Boston. GRC is also supporting its business members to write their own organisational climate plans in line with the City and federal climate plans. The Boston Green Ribbon Commission is an active Fellow City member of the CBCA network and has contributed to many CBCA webinars and publications. Read the Boston GRC 2021-2025 Strategic Plan.

Business Council on Climate Change (BC3) - San Francisco

The Business Council on Climate Change (BC3) is a San Francisco-based multi-sector partnership dedicated to incubating, scaling, and sharing world-leading solutions to address climate change. Founded in 2007, BC3 is a nonprofit network of over 25 corporate members that works closely with the City of San Francisco, and incubates collaborative approaches to address climate change.

As a smaller member-driven organization, BC3 does not have permanent sectoral working groups but rather focuses on contemporary topics chosen by its members each year. In the past, they have developed a Green Tenant Toolkit, created a guide for installing workplace charging infrastructure and have even set up a groundbreaking aggregate Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA). BC3 currently focuses on:

• Climate positive solutions (carbon removals)

• Supply chain emissions reduction

• Climate-smart recovery - collaborating with the City and County of San Francisco around the recovery priorities outlined by Mayor Breed's Economic Recovery Task Force

• Employee activation - a program to engage member employees and green teams around climate change issues/personal choices (at work & home). Supported CBCA network with webinars and interview

Click here to read an interview about how San Francisco businesses are supporting the City with its climate goals.