San Francisco has joined International Group of Climate Change Champions, Urges Climate Action. The Our Cities, Our Climate (OC2) which is an worldwide exchange program associated by the U.S. Department of State and Bloomberg Philanthropies. The organization is uniting leaders of several notable cities around the globe, targeting on discerning environmental change and averting its harmful consequences, and the program allows the members to reciprocate the knowledge as well as speed up the evolvement attempted by innumerable urban places. “While San Francisco has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 23% below 1990 levels while our local population and economy grew, we still have much to learn from our colleagues across the globe who like San Francisco are working on city-initiated climate solutions,” said Deborah O. Raphael, Director San Francisco Department of the Environment.