Boris Johnson is the London Mayor. They are currently listening to cities and how they could make use of water from rivers and the sea to keep them cool in a world where temperatures rise due to climate change. Cities will heat up faster and air conditioning will become more expensive for households and businesses. A simple technique that uses water from Paris’s river Seine to cool buildings near Champs Elysees was demonstrated at the Global Mayors Summit. Johnson also mentioned that he visited the Engie power plant to learn more about how river water is used to cool buildings. Boris Johnson, @MayorofLondon. Mr. Johnson found it impressive and stated that he’d like to see London cool buildings with water from the River Thames. He admitted that he didn’t want to confess it, but that the French were ahead of us in this area. It works by pumping water from the Seine around people’s homes, similar to ordinary pumped-water cooling. The water temperature is brought down using technology similar to the one used in cooling refrigerators. They met at Paris City Hall (Hotel de Ville) to discuss climate change. The meeting took place during the 2015, United Nations Climate Change Conference also known as COP 21, or the Paris Climate Talks. It ends December 11th. Eduardo Paes (Mayor of Rio de Janeiro) was the chairman of the group. The mayors who met represented over six hundred million people and one quarter the global GDP. Effective mayors are possible. While government can sometimes move very slowly, mayors often have greater effectiveness because they move faster. The mayors, who claim they have made 10,000 climate initiatives collectively since 2009, said they had learned to share green solution ideas. His team claims that since Johnson was elected mayor in 2008,, carbon emissions in London have fallen by 14%, in spite of an increase in population. Johnson stated that his main focus was on determining how to heat and cool London in low-carbon ways using natural gas. This makes up nearly 50% percent of the city’s carbon emissions. Darren Johnson of the Green Party, a member of the London Assembly said that Boris Johnson was a disappointment in general. Boris Johnson outside Bataclan concert hall. Boris Johnson, @MayorofLondon. Mr. Johnson remembered the Paris terrorist attack victims. Johnson took a break from his meeting to place a rose in the Bataclan concert venue in honor of those who were killed by terrorists on November 13th. In Paris, 130 were all killed that day. Three ISIS terrorists attacked the Bataclan concert hall and murdered 89 members of the Californian rock group Eagles of Death Metal. Police shot one of the terrorists dead, while two others were blued up and detonated their suicide vests. Outside the concert venue, Mr. Johnson, and Peter Ricketts (British Ambassador to France), laid a rose.
