Mayors representing 8,000 European cities call for climate proofing of EU and national budgets. Climate proofing budgets is the best way to ensure that governments do not spend a single euro that could further climate change.

For the global strike for climate, city leaders representing the European Covenant of Mayors have come together to demand the climate proofing of budgets at an EU and national level. Climate proofing budgets is the best way of ensuring that everything possible is done to meet the EU’s commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement, achieve the promise of a carbon neutral EU by 2050 and avoid stranded assets as fossil fuel investments outlive their usefulness.

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