13/12/2018 (Agence Europe) – As major actors in the fight against climate change, local authorities, who are responsible for more than 70% of the measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and 90% of adaptation actions, called on COP 24 in Katowice on Wednesday 12 December to take a formal role in global climate governance and the implementation of the Paris Agreement. The European Committee of the Regions (CoR) has joined this request from local governments and municipal authorities (LGMAs) worldwide to demand that this request be included in the COP 24 conclusions. Cor Lamers, Mayor of Schiedam, who chairs the CoR's Environment Commission, also called on "all parties of the Paris Agreement to include determined contributions at regional and local levels in the national level determined contributions". (AN)