The Ohio Mayor Looking for Climate Solutions at COP28 in Dubai
Mayor Andrew Ginther of Columbus, Ohio, led a delegation of US mayors at this year's global climate summit.
Workers erect national flags on the opening day of the COP28 climate conference at Expo City in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Nov. 30, 2023. More than 70,000 politicians, diplomats, campaigners, financiers and business leaders are in Dubai to talk about arresting the world’s slide toward environmental catastrophe.
Photographer: Hollie Adams/BloombergThis story is part of a Bloomberg CityLab series of conversations with mayors about what they’re doing to make their cities more livable. Read the previous stories, about ending traffic deaths in Hoboken, New Jersey, and monarch butterfly conservation in Columbia Heights, Minnesota, here.
A record 84,000 attendees are participating in COP28 this year, a climate summit gathering delegates from almost every country in the world. The mayor of Columbus, Ohio, a city of fewer than 1 million people, is one of them — and he's hoping to put the conversation about local climate goals on the international stage.
As the vice president of the US Conference of Mayors, Andrew Ginther is leading a delegation of local US officials who are sharing solutions that can help cities cope with the threats of a warming climate. He and others, including New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell and Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser, spoke on panels about multilevel action and American climate innovations at the summit, which kicked off last week.