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Romel Pascual is Acting Deputy Mayor, Energy & Environment, for the City of Los Angeles. I spoke with the Deputy Mayor in Copenhagen about the role of sub-national governments in helping drive climate action, and he told me about a program in the City of Los Angeles to replace streetlights with more efficient LED lamps.
The Los Angeles LED Streetlight Program is the largest LED Streetlight retrofit program in the entire world. Los Angeles is replacing close to 140,000 streetlights across the City, with a reduction of about 40,000 tons of carbon each year, and a savings of about $10 million dollars each year in energy costs. This is a 5-year program with a total cost of $46 million dollars, and the Deputy Mayor says with a 7-year payback it just makes good economic sense, as well as being the right thing to do for the environment.
Romel says if cities across the world adopt this program and do LED streetlight retrofits, by city action alone the United States can reduce up to 40 million tons of carbon each year, just with this one program. Considering the ultimate failure of COP15 to produce a meaningful agreement, the LA program if adopted by cities across America can be a good demonstration of sub-national governments taking leadership and shaping policy, even while national governments fail to act.
Evan Kopelson is president of Green Media Consulting Inc and founder of http://greenmedianews.comRomel Pascual is Acting Deputy Mayor, Energy & Environment, for the City of Los... more
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