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The agreement was signed within the framework of the Global Summit of Ma-yors on Climate Change (Mexico City, November 2010). The cities that sig-ned this agreement undertake to redu-ce their greenhouse gas emissions and to propose measurable, reportable, and verifable objectives.

Mexican Pact

After the Mexican Agreement was signed by representatives of 140 cities worldwide, Proactiva Medio Ambiente, a subsidiary of Veolia, and FCC for Latin America and a partner at this event, has began to work with several Latin American cities to prepare an inventory of greenhouse gas emissions and to defne the Climate Plan for mitigating and adapting to climate change .

The frst pilot test was conducted in the city of Montera, Colombia. Thanks to the newly-created technical team and the co-

Proactiva Medio Ambiente

calculates the carbon footprint in cities

llaboration of municipal and other Colom-bian authorities, a report on the city’s car-bon footprint was prepared as well as the general lines for the Climate Plan, Montera Green City 2009 program.

The carbon footprint has proven to be a useful tool for detecting the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions and identifying the opportunities for management improve-ment and for optimizing city services (trans-port, energy, solid waste and wastewater treatment) as well as for introducing clean

technologies and for analyzing innovative solutions for subsectors in which no pre-vious work had been carried out.