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Climate Fight in Hands of Local Leaders

Posted on July 12, 2005

The flash animation Neglected Sky, is a call to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. At the Utah conference which began on Sunday former U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson urged mayors from across the nation to take the lead in fighting global warming. ''If we wait around for the Congress to ... take steps that are going to be significant, we are not going to address this problem,'' said Richardson.

Last month, the U.S. Conference of Mayors unanimously passed a resolution requiring their cities to try to meet or surpass emissions standards set by the Kyoto Protocol, the international treaty ratified earlier this year without the United States. The resolution also urged federal and state governments to meet or beat the goal of reducing global warming pollution levels to 7 percent below 1990 levels by 2012.

The Utah conference, hosted by actor Robert Redford, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson and the U.N.-sponsored International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, drew about 45 mayors, including Richard M. Daley of Chicago and John W. Hickenlooper of Denver.

Read more about the Utah conference from the Associated Press.

Learn more about the Kyoto protocol from the Citizens for Global Solutions.

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