METRO FREE Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Please see Page 3 Which European city ranks lower than Ljubljana, Warsaw, Vilnius, Bratislava and 16 others as a Green city? You guessed it... DUBLIN has ranked in the bottom third of Europes Green- est cities, with public transport ranked as the worst. Environmental studies of 30 cities in 30 countries placed Dublin 21st, behind London, Madrid, Rome, Vilnius, Riga, Warsaw, Budapest, Lisbon, Ljubljana and Bratislava. Copenhagen topped the poll as the Greenest city, while Kiev was bottom. Dublin was judged 16th in terms of water waste, 18th for energy consumption, and 19th for CO2 emissions. It was also deemed to have the ninth-worst environmental governance, the sixth-worst energy efficient buildings, and the very worst transport record in Europe. The Siemens European Green Cities Index found Dublin produces 9.72 tonnes of CO2 emission per head, nearly twice the 30-city average of 5.2 tonnes, and uses 1281 megajoules of energy for every square metre of buildings, far higher than the 30-city average of 909 megajoules. Each city dweller consumes 156 gigajoules of energy and 128 cubic metres of water per year compared with the 81 gi- gajoules and 105 cubic metres of the average European. The study also revealed fewer than one in five people takes public transport to work, about half the average of 42 per cent, whereas nearly 61 per cent use private cars, ranking Dublin 30th out of 30 in transport. The only favourable ranking Dublin received was fourth place for air quality, attributed to 1980s legislation which eliminated leaded petrol and banned coal. The report results for Dublin City are stark, particularly in transport, however the technologies which are available today can help dramatically improve our environmental perform- ance and ultimately help us to reach our emissions targets, save the Exchequer money and help create significant jobs, said Siemens chief executive Dr Werner Kruckow. A spokesman for Environment Minister John Gormley said the poor results were the responsibility of the local councils, and urged councillors to do more to promote the environment. But Labour environment spokesman Senator Dominic Han- nigan said the Government could not wash its hands of the issue, saying more investment was needed. BY ROSS McDONAGH Dirty Dublin HELP METRO HELP THE ENVIRONMENT. RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER TODAY INSIDE TODAY Interview: Page 14 Actor John Hurt tells us how to do that Alien scene See Page 3 Meet the winner of Metros Global Photo Challenge PLUS Whats on TV tonight Pages 14-15 Acid test: A man looks at a projection in Copenhagen showing acidity levels in the worlds oceans Picture: Getty Decade was the warmest in 160 years NEGOTIATORS attempting to hammer out a new deal to tackle climate change were given more impetus when experts revealed the past ten years had been the warmest decade in the 160-year record of global surface temperatures. Scientists warn temperature rises need to be kept to 2C to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and said the results highlighted that the world continues to see a trend of global temperature rises, most of which is because of increasing emissions of greenhouse gases. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html