Nutter And Mayors Of Los Angeles, Houston Launch Mayors' National Climate Action Agenda
By Dan Wing
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter announced Monday that he'll be teaming up with the Mayors of Los Angeles and Houston to start a mayor-to-mayor, city-to-city outreach effort to bring more cities on board with low carbon solutions to raise sustainability in changing climates.
It's being called the Mayors' National Climate Action Agenda, and Mayor Nutter says the partnership will see each city focus on achievable goals over the next 5 years, 10 years, and all the way up to 2050, on ways to reduce greenhouse gases and ways to combat a changing climate. Nutter says they'll also meet with the leaders of other cities both here in the U.S., and around the world.
"The negative impacts we're seeing from severe weather events, the impact they have on our citizens, and certainly from a cost standpoint damage to infrastructure and the like," Nutter said.
Nutter says the partnership was needed.
"We're not seeing enough action at the federal level, because of congressional gridlock around sustainability issues, energy efficiency and the savings that go with it. So many of us have decided to take this on in our local issues," Nutter said.
Nutter says since starting his 'Greenworks' sustainability plan in 2006, which emphasizes climate mitigation and adaptation, citywide greenhouse gas emissions have fallen 6 percent.
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