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It’s clear that we need an economic recovery plan that will create good jobs, fast. It’s also increasingly clear that investment in the green economy will both produce some of the quickest impacts and achieve the most long-lasting benefits.

Cities are clear about the future they want and they are already showing what is possible. In 2020 we can build something different and better. The work has already begun.

There can be no climate justice without racial justice, and there can be no racial justice without climate justice.

The Race to Zero campaign was launched on June 5th, 2020 in a joint effort by Nigel Topping, UK COP26 Climate Champion and Gonzalo Muñoz, Chile COP25 Climate Champion to encourage cities, regions, businesses and investors to accelerate their commitments to halve emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero no later than 2050. Thanks to C40’s Deadline 2020 programme, 116 cities have already committed to such global climate leadership, and as part of the Race to Zero, are setting the bar on what ambitious climate action means for cities.

C40 is committed to looking deeply at how we operate and the contribution we can make to dismantling the systems that perpetuate both racial and climate injustice.