List of Inaugural Members of the 20% Club for Sustainable Cities and their targets

Name of Local Authority	Country	Target
Mandurah	Australia	A reduction in energy used in key council buildings by approximately 10% by the year 2000. A reduction in water consumption of approsximately 25% by the year 2001. An increase in public open space retained as bushland under the control of Council, from appoximately 17% across Mandurah to a minimum of 30% in areas developed for urban purposes. An increase in the number of people using public transport to commute to Perth for work by 25% by the year 1999. An increase in the local employment ration by approximately 5%.
Gold Coast	Australia	20% increase in the beneficial reuse of wastewater effluent 20% reduction of total nitrogen discharged from all of Council's wastewater treatment plants 20% reduction of total phosphorus discharged from all of Council's treatment plants 20% reduction in the water consumption per property 20% reduction in the chlorine usage for wastewater effluent disinfection 20% reduction in sewage overflows
Newcastle	Australia	Council will reduce the annual carbon dioxide emissions from its activities by at least 5% of 1990 levels by the year 2000 Halve the city's landfilled waste volume by the year 2000, relative to 1990 volume
São Paulo	Brazil	The use of methane gas is expected to reach 100% of the tax fleet and 10% of the bus diesel fleet within 3 years from the enactment of the law The installation of 70km of bikeways is expected in 1997, and from 1998 until 2000, further 2000Km/year of bikeways will be implemented
Saarbrücken	Germany	25% reduction of CO2 from 1990 to 2005
Central Jakarta	Indonesia	Reduce waste volume from 5200m3/day to 4000m3/day by the year 2000 Enhance the greening policy by increasing trees from today's 6 million to 8 million
Semarang	Indonesia	20% of industrial waste recycling will be achieved in 5 years
Gumma Prefecture	Japan	20% reduction of CO2 emissions per capita by the year 2005 from the 1990 level Enhance the waste recycling to reach the more than 20% level by the year 2000
Kawaguchi City	Japan	20.1% of waste recycling, before intermediate process, is expected to be achieved
Abiko City	Japan	By the year 2000, 10% reduction of household waste, 20% reduction of office waste, and 35% of waste recycling will be achieved
Noda City	Japan	By the year 2000, 27.4% reduction of household waste and 37.1% reduction of office waste will be achieved to reach 30.3% of the overall waste reduction
Setagaya Ward	Japan	Increase the recycling activity by 30% of present level in 3 years. The total length of hedgerow will be longer by 80% than present in 5 years 20% more low pollution car will be registered in our ward in 5 years
Kanagawa Prefecture	Japan	Prefecture managed forestry in the watersupply source area will be expanded to 12,000ha from present 9,200ha in 5 years BOD will be reduced by 20% from present level (1995) in 5 years Reduce water quality related problem by 20% in 5 years Increase the permanent green area in the prefecture park by 20% in the future 100% recall of HCFC used products in 5 years Introduce low pollution car to reach 20% of the entire number of prefectural government official car in 5 years Implement the measures for night time transport noise pollution to the 20% of the entire target lines Increase the waste volume to be recycled by private sector to 15,100t from present 12.591t in 5 years by encouraging and facilitating the recycling
Ayase City	Japan	By proceeding waste volume reduction and recycling, more than 20% recycling rate will be realized
Ohi Town	Japan	20% of collected waste will be recycled every year
Oiso Town	Japan	More than 20% of waste will be recycled
Odawara City	Japan	Study the number of low pollition car to be introduced, including the private sector, and implement the introduction from the year 1998 Proceed the waste volume reduction by recycling and sorting collection of ordinary waste, and 20% of total waste will be recycled
Kaisei Town	Japan	Maintain more than 20% recycling rate every year by implementing waste volume reduction and recycling
Kamakura City	Japan	20% reduction and 20% recycling of waste
Kawasaki City	Japan	Increase the recycling rate by 20% in 5 years Introduce low pollution car, designated by 7 local authorities, to cover 30% of official car
Sagamihara City	Japan	Increase the municipal park area by 20% Reduce the pollution burden of rivers by 20%
Samukawa Town>	Japan	More than 20% of waste will be recycled by implementing thorough sorting collection
Chigasaki City	Japan	20% of waste volume will be reduced and 20% of waste will be recycled
Nakai Town	Japan	20% of collected waste will be recycled every year
Ninomiya Town	Japan	20% recycling rate will be achieved by waste volume reduction and recycling
Fujisawa City	Japan	20% reduction of process required waste (The estimation volume of 2001, 149,700t will be reduced to 120,000t)
Matsuda Town	Japan	20% of collected waste will be recycled every year
Manazuru Town	Japan	Reduce the ocean discharging of urination to 16.34kl/day in 2001 from 18.15kl/day in 1995 Encourage the installation of integrated purification equipment and 12 equipments will be installed in 2001
Yamakita Town	Japan	20% of waste will be recycled by proceeding sorting collection and recycling encouragement
Yugawara Town	Japan	Reduce the ocean discharging of urination to 21.314kl/day from 25.07kl/day in 1995 Encourage the installation of integrated purification equipment and 16 equipments will be installed in 2001
Iida City	Japan	Reduce total waste disposal in 2000 by 7% and 14% reduction of estimated waste will be achieved 26% or more of collected waste will be recycled in 2001 After 2001, the surplus power concumption from the 1994 level is expected to be covered by natural energy Solar energy water boiler is expected to be diffused by 25% in 2000 Solar power generation facility construction is expected to be popularized by 1% in 2000 Control the usage of purified water amount in 2000 to be the average level between the year 1990 and 1994 More than 30% of main routes will be the area of tree planting in 2010 Improve the water quality to reach the adequate level for small creatures habitat Set the standard noise level of residential area within the target of city planning as 50dB in the daytime, 45dB in the morning and evening and 45dB at night Odor concentration level is expected to be 20 in industrial area More than 2/3 of residential area is expected to be satisfied with living environment in the year 2010 Improve the awareness of citizen toward the environmental activities in 2010
Komoro City	Japan	40% of waste will be recycled
Kyonggi Province	Korea	By 1996, 69.9t of waste will be recycled and by 2001, the target volume will be 500t
Puerto Princesa	Phillippines	Eradication of destructive methods of fishing and slash-and-burn farming
Kirovo-Chepetsk	Russia	By the year 2001, reduce polluting substances discharge by 30% of the 1991 level reduce carbon dioxide emission by 20% of the 1990 level reduce solid household waste and industrial waste volume by 30% of the 1990 level
Matale	SriLanka	Composting and recycling projects will realize 30t of daily organic fertilizer production and Rs6,000 daily income
Bursa	Turkey	The segregation of valuable materials at source will be applied to 500,000 people by the year 2000 from present 53,000
Gulu	Uganda	1 million trees of different types and species to be planted Increase bicycle transport by 80% and public transportation by 60%
Jinja	Uganda	From the partnership with 65% of communities Involve 60% of communities to find environmental problems
Mbale	Uganda	Expand the area covered by Municipal Waste Collection and Disposal service from present 9km2 to 18km2 in 5 years
Louisville and Jefferson County	U.S.A.	Achieve 20% fewer greenhouse-gas emissions in 5 years

In addition to the members listed above, the following local authorities expressed their intention to become members of the 20% Club. (Some of them are yet to determine specific numerical targets, and some of them need to get approval from Councils to join the Club officially.)

Gold Coast City Council (Australia), La Ceiba (Honduras), All India Institute of Local Government (India), Jerusalem (Israel), Shiga Prefecture (Japan), Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia), Asunción (Paraguay), Environmental Committee of the Union of Russian Cities (Russia), Ratnapura (Sri Lanka)

Five other local authorities including Shengyang (P.R. China), Sendai City, Hadano City, Minami-Ashigara City, Yokosuka City (Japan) joined the 20% Club officially after the inauguration by March 5, 1997.

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