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Barcelona top of CO2 city study

Barcelona has come out top of a new study which ranks ten leading world cities on their greenhouse gas emissions. The worst was Denver which emits six times as much greenhouses gases as Barcelona. The order for electricity consumption was: 1-Denver, 2-Toronto, 3-Geneva, 4-NYC, 5-Prague, 6-London, 7-Bangkok, 8-LA, 9-Barcelona, and 10-Cape Town. The study also took public transport, waste and “heating and industrial fuel use” into account to determine total emissions. More here

Favourable factors include the temperate climate (15% reduction), nuclear power generation from Ascó, population density, good public transport and low car use.

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