ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability is an international organization in which membership includes more than 1200 cities, towns, and counties, to commit to the environmental sustainability.
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Local Involvement
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Albemarle joined the organization shortly after adopting the Cool Counties initiative in December 2007 to committ to a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050, or an average annual reductions of 2 percent.
There has been an opposition to this movement within the county level. In March 2011, Jefferson Area Tea Party held a forum to review local sustainability intiatives arguing that such plans should be implemented on a regional level. Supervisor Ken Boyd has called for the coutny to drop its membership in the international organization.
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