How green is your city?

Latin American and European cities are the least reliant on fossil fuels to generate their electricity, reveals new analysis of major cities around the world. Asia Pacific cities continue to exhibit a high dependency on fossil fuels, while North American and African cities sit somewhere in the middle.

More than 300 cities participated in the 2015 CDP* to better manage their climate change strategies. As part of the process, they were asked to disclose the fuel mix for the electricity that powers their city. In 2015, 162 cities responded and revealed their use of fossil fuel versus clean power sources, reporting coal, gas, oil, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, hydro, solar and wind. The annual report is a joint project by CDP and AECOM.

*CDP, formerly Carbon Disclosure Project, is an international, not-for-profit organization providing the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information