World's Major Cities Pledge Climate Action. AFP, October 24, 2008. "Leaders of 40 of the world's major cities pledged action Thursday to fight climate change... 'Very important actions are taking place by mayors who act,' Toronto Mayor David Miller, the chairman of the... C40 climate initiative of cities, said after two days of talks in Tokyo... Some 40 cities are part of the C40 including Beijing, London, New Delhi, New York, Paris and Sydney... The cities agreed to study their chosen areas so that they can agree on concrete action when C40 mayors hold a 'climate summit' next May in Seoul... Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara, an environmentalist with outspoken views, said it was crucial to take more than symbolic action against climate change. 'We brought here experts who are directly facing this problem so they can discuss specifically what should be done so that the Seoul summit doesn't end up just with abstractions,' Ishihara told the news conference... He blasted as 'spineless' last year's UN-led conference in Bali that set a goal of reaching a post-Kyoto Protocol climate treaty by the end of 2009."
2008-10-26
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