City of Stamford, CT Receives 2005 Climate Champion Award

NEW YORK, NY— The City of Stamford, CT was awarded one of six Clean Air-Cool Planet 2005 Climate Champion Awards given here today at Global Warming Solutions 2005.

“Stamford has long been a leader in energy efficiency. The City has a full-time energy manager and has achieved significant savings of taxpayer dollars by annually reducing 60,000 emissions tons of heat-tapping gases from public operations,” said CA-CP Executive Director, Adam Markam.

CA-CP is the Northeast’s leading nonprofit dedicated to finding and implementing solution to global warming. CA-CP works with businesses, communities, and colleges in New England, New York, and New Jersey to help develop cost-effective solutions to fight climate change and promote environmental protection.

Markam noted that “Stamford’s local climate protection efforts extend to the City’s help in mapping out a local action plan that will reduce emissions 20% below 1998 levels by the year 2018.”

Accepting the award for the City of Stamford, Mayor Dannel P. Malloy remarked that the City is also developing a system of bike/pedestrian trails along the Mill River in addition to the implementation of the Stamford Urban Transitway project. The project will improve access to the Stamford Inter-Modal Transportation Center, designed to alleviate traffic congestion and reduce pollution on both the North State Street and South State Street corridors.

Markam noted that “This kind of thinking and progressive action is evidence that the City of Stamford understands that alternatives to road widening and construction must be explored in order to diminish emissions and improve air quality while reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the long term.”

Clean Air-Cool Planet presented the five other awards at the Global Warming Solutions 2005 conference to Maine Governor John Baldacci, Governor George Pataki of New York, Bank of America, The Timberland Company, and Middlebury College.

The last Climate Champion Awards were presented at CA-CP’s 2003 conference. Receiving awards two years ago were Shaw’s Supermarkets, the University of New Hampshire, Tufts University and the City of Hull, Massachusetts.

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