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Examples of National efforts around the world which have potential for significant change:
China has plans to build a new completely self-sufficient city on an island off Shanghai. The city of Dongtan will house 500,000 people in a car-free environment that creates no green house gases and recycles almost everything. The buildings will be energy efficient and made from local materials. Organic farmers will supply the city with all of their food.
The United Kingdom is pressing for global warming to head the list of items for international cooperation. Many of the world's poor live sustainably on their land and demand that they be given more control of their local natural resources and protected from the encroachments of agribusiness, mining and forest corporations so that they can manage them sustainably.
See more on Just Climate Policy in the following document: Just Foreign Policy and Security by Foreign Policy in Focus, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.
Successful efforts to make a campus carbon neutral require broad-based institutional support as well as commitment from top decision makers. WSU partners with Sustain Winona and has received a letter of conformance from an outside auditor which certifies that Sustain Winona's Environmental Management System conforms to the ISO 14001 standard. This management plan is set forth in the Sustain Winona EMS Manual .
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