1. The city as a cornerstone of climate action, where greater capacity for joint action between institutions and citizens is necessary to address climate change.
2. The importance of political leadership and communication strategies to face new challenges for cities in relation to the environment and climate.
3. The need to integrate climate policy as a common transversal element in all areas of city government.
4. Joint structures should be promoted from municipalities in order to foster green economy and green jobs as a necessary solution to crisis and unemployment.
5. Climate and environmental policies, linked to the promotion of green economy and green jobs, together with social policies should work together in order to reduce and prevent inequality and poverty.
6. The importance of exercising an integral action in cities, with plans, businesses and municipal offices aimed at the rehabilitation of buildings and the implementation of renewable energies.
7. Recognized as one of the fundamental objectives of these comprehensive measures, the fight against energy poverty by developing actions to prevent power outages and dramatic situations.
8. The importance of understanding mobility beyond the use of motor vehicles, developing intermodal agencies to integrate other forms of transport, with strategies aiming during the political term of four years, to a significant reduction of private transport in polluting vehicles.
9. Keep promoting bicycle as the principal means of transportation in the city, providing more resources and infrastructure for its use.
10. Increase the promotion and creation of green spaces such as walks, parks and gardens, together with other innovative measures such as green roofs. Cities should be reinvented as engines in the fight against global warming and biodiversity loss, implying a constant and permanent participation of residents.
11. Recognizing the multiple diversities integrated within the city, actions should be oriented to enable every local stakeholder and individuals to participate in climate action in the city, whether they were from different social groups, businesses, schools, government, etc. Training and awareness are keystones of the climate action in the municipalities.
12. The importance of promoting eco-social centers by the municipalities, called in this guide as "Ecostation" or “The Green House”, in order to be a reference for everybody in the city and all local climate actions and policies.
13. The promotion and support of urban agriculture and orchards, facilitating their implementation and indicating its importance for health, nutrition and the climate.
14. Improve waste Management, increasing actions oriented to reduce and minimize waste, and develop policies that encourage reuse and recycling.
15. The defense of water as a public good, recognizing their access as a human right and the need to be an accessible and equitable resource for all, defending its public management and promoting remunicipalise of water companies in cases they were already privatized.
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