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Cities lead on climate change

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The need to mitigate climate change opens up a key role for cities. Bristol's year as a Green Capital led to great strides forward, but it also revealed that a creative and determined partnership across cultural divides will be necessary.

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Figure 1: Bristol 2015 — European Green Capital.

RICH PANCOST

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  1. Richard D. Pancost is at the University of Bristol Cabot Institute and School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1UJ, UK,

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Pancost, R. Cities lead on climate change. Nature Geosci 9, 264–266 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2690

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