Vitoria Qualifies as Green City
VITORIA, Spain, July 14, 2005. Last month Vitoria became a full member of the worldwide club of green cities, following the signing of the Green City Declaration; a plea against planetary decay and climate change, during the World Environment Day, which was held in San Francisco and sponsored by the Environment Programme of the United Nations.
As the only Spanish city awarded such a privilege, Vitoria has witnessed the rewards of this long standing commitment to the environment and green policies. This Basque city has the most open spaces in Spain and is amongst the greenest cities in Europe. It has 40 parks and green squares, with approximately 80,000 trees and 200.000 bushes allowing an average of 20 squared meters of green areas per inhabitant.
Other cities at the occasion included Zurich, Vancouver, Jakarta, Delhi, Istanbul, London, Seattle, Melbourne, Kampala, Rio de Janeiro and Copenhagen. All these, propose to implement 21 agreements designed to introduce measures to reduce energy consumption and the production of waste matter, to design cities that treat scarce natural resources with increased respect, promote public transport and save water.
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