Sunday, November 27, 2011

Healing the planet: Four of 1,055 American mayors claim they've met their climate hoax pledges

As U.N. climate talks get underway in South Africa, local strategies are replacing the Kyoto global pact - The Washington Post

And although 1,055 American mayors have pledged to meet the original U.S. target of cutting emissions 7 percent from 1990 levels, only four cities — San Francisco, Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles — have said they have reached that goal. Michael Schmitz of ICLEI, which tracks local government climate policies in the United States, said that without a national cap on carbon, “it’s very difficult to achieve the reductions that mayors, frankly, thought they’d be able to do.”

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