United States Conference of Mayors Holds Climate Protection Summit

On November 1-2, 2007, 100 mayors attended the 2007 Mayors Climate Protection Summit in Seattle, Washington. At the Summit, the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) and the Clinton Foundation’s Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) announced a new partnership. All 1,100 cities in the USCM will have the opportunity to purchase energy-efficient and clean-energy products and technologies through CCI’s existing purchasing consortium. Mayors at the conference also urged Congress to complete energy efficiency legislation by the end of the year. As of November 2007, 710 mayors, representing 25 percent of the U.S. population, have signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Signatories commit to reduce the carbon emissions of their communities seven percent below 1990 levels by 2012, in line with targets proposed for the United States as a whole under the Kyoto Protocol.

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U.S. Conference of Mayors
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