Stemming from membership, CCP cities publicly demonstrate their recognition of global climate change as a 'legitimate local concern,' committed to controlling the threats of local greenhouse gas emissions,[REF] immediately focusing the CCP program upon city local climate policy agendas.
The CCP program is a resource that Municipal governments have drawn upon in advancing particular local energy or environmental policies with sizeable global climate consequences, to a manageable scale in which local governments should act and be concerned [REF].