Posted on 11/22/2010 12:21:59 PM PST by wheresmyusa
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 21, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Mayors from around the world today signed an agreement to address climate change at the World Mayors Summit on Climate, hosted by the Government of Mexico City and Marcelo Ebrard, mayor of Mexico City and chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate. During the summit, representatives from 135 global cities signed the Mexico City Pact, which establishes a monitoring and verification mechanism for cities to address climate change. The Mexico City Pact will be presented to the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) when it meets later this month in Cancun, Mexico.
"With more than half the world's population today living in cities for the first time in human history, mayors and urban leaders are on the frontline of the planet's fight against a changing climate. Today, the cities meeting here are taking action to reduce harmful greenhouse emissions through their commitment to the Mexico City Pact," said Marcelo Ebrard, Mayor of the Mexico City and chair of the World Mayors Council on Climate Change.
In partnership with United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability, and the World Mayors Council on Climate Change (WMCCC), the Government of Mexico City organized the summit to provide a forum for the signing of an agreement that commits cities to action and urges national governments to advance a binding global treaty.
"Cities have great capacities to address climate change, even in the absence of a binding global treaty among nations, which is why we are here today. We are demonstrating the leadership of mayors and cities around the world to take action," said Martha Delgado, Mexico City's secretary of the environment and ICLEI vice president.
The Mexico City Pact calls for cities to develop and implement climate action plans that promote local laws and initiatives to reduce GHG reductions. To establish and follow up on cities' commitments, the signers will establish their climate actions in the Carbon Cities Climate Registry (CCCR) at the Bonn Centre for Local Climate Action and Reporting (carbonn).
"Funding is a critical component to ensure that cities around the world have the financial resources to implement their climate action plans. Mayors believe that if financial resources become available through transfers from developed to developing countries, a significant portion of these monies should be passed through to cities and local governments to implement local climate programs," Ebrard said.
Mexico City is currently implementing a Green Plan designed to reduce GHG emissions by 7 million metric tonnes between 2008 and 2012 through a comprehensive program of new investments in public transportation, conservation of public lands, reductions in air pollution, improvements in water, solid waste and sanitation infrastructure, and encouraging companies and citizens to adopt climate-friendly practices.
Mexico City the dirtiest city in the western hemisphere.
Exactly. Scant difference between modern governments and organized crime.
Unless they finally “agree” that the sun warms the Earth, not our breath, they’re still the biggest bunch of morons-control freaks-money grubbers-mother earth worshipping heathens ever to walk the Earth.
Unfortunately, for us, it’s “OK they signed it. Now where do we all send our money?”
The air there’s not called la mierda for nothing. It’s an arid, ‘developing’ country.....
US conference of mayors did this three or so years ago.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” Al Gore (1948 –), forty-fifth Vice President of the United States, in An Inconvenient Truth
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