The Town Council approved a resolution on Jan. 30 to endorse the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. Taos joins six other New Mexico communities that have endorsed the agreement, which is modeled after the Kyoto Protocols to reduce green house gas emissions by 5.2 percent by the year 2012. The resolution is the first step to reducing Taos' contribution to global warming and it makes a commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The second step is to conduct an inventory of emissions. This inventory will identify Taos's sources of greenhouse gas emissions at the local level. The third step is to adopt the town's strategy for reducing emissions. The plan will focus on the town's fleet and fuel consumption, the conservation of energy and the production of alternative...
To: POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Lina Garcia, Mayors Climate Protection Center, +1-202- 341-6113, lgarcia@usmayors.org
Monmouth University, which signed an MoU with the EPA to avail its energy-efficiency programs, "is an early bird" in such efforts, said Patricia Swannack, its vice president for administrative services. Three years ago, before it joined the EPA's EnergyStar program, it invested $2.8 million (supported by a $1.7 million government grant) in a 454 kilowatt-hour solar-photovoltaic system that was then the largest "east of the Mississippi" among universities," she said. Graves said the current buzz about managing climate change is triggering renewed vitality in WasteWise, with New Jersey as a leader in such efforts, accounting for nearly 10 percent of the signatories to the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement In this agreement, 1,016 mayors pledged to reduce carbon emissi...
Washington Cov. Chris Gregoire, D, along with legislators in her state, swiftly proposed laws that would cut the state's greenhouse gas emissions by more than 50 percent by 2050. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has expressed similar ambitions on a national scale. Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski, D, unveiled his own energy bill, which would require 25 percent of the state's energy to come from renewable sources by 2025 and provide incentives for alternative energy. And 130 of the 402 members of the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement are in the West, albeit mostly along the coast. Lurking on the fringes, though, is a potential nuclear renaissance. Pelosi, once a foe of nukes, indicated she could change her tune if it means solving the climate change/energy demand conundrum. The Dep...
Mayor Dave Bieter appears to have baby-stepped his way toward a useful, if unexciting, public image: the quality-of-life candidate. When he announced that Boise would join the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement in August, he was criticized for creating a non-binding news event with no ramifications. But he followed that up with his remarkable State of the City speech last week (half-hour, no notes, complete with jokes; it was, some observers said, his best speech as mayor) where he honed in on his goal: to increase Boise's "liveability." That's the underpinning for his push to redevelop Boise's library system, continue pushing for public transit options, and push for the city's fleet to use more alternative fuels like biodiesel. The latter was announced this week, although city st...
As we begin the new year, let us resolve to make and keep one resolution for 2008: to put politics and ideology aside and unite to deal with global climate change as the planetary emergency it really is. That is the message in last November's report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a group of 2,500 scientists who constitute the world's most authoritative voice on global warming. The panel's leader, Rajendra Pachauri, stated: "What we do in the next two or three years will define our future. Government leaders at all levels must pave the way. At the regional and local levels, all the mayors of our municipalities and counties should resolve to follow the lead of Shelby County Mayor A C Wharton and pledge to reduce global warming greenhouse gases by signing and immediat...
Climate protection topic of mayors' meeting WOOSTER -- Mayor Toni Middleton of Alliance, the second signer of the Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, will be the speaker at a meeting on Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church, Beall Avenue and Bowman Street.
In Burlington, Vt., population 38,500, households and businesses are encouraged to accept a volunteer challenge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 10 percent. Portland, Maine, was among the first to sign the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, pledging to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 7 percent over five years. The city's 20 percent biodiesel vehicles must follow an anti-idling ordinance.
CRANBERRY ISLES - The town comprising five offshore islands last week became the latest to join a nationwide effort by cities and municipalities to help reduce greenhouse gases and minimize the effects of global climate change. Cranberry Isles, which has a year-round population of about 130 people, officially signed on to the Mayors' Climate Protection Agreement at its annual town meeting earlier this month.
BANGOR - City officials took an initial step Tuesday toward adopting a policy on energy conservation and climate protection, a policy they say is a localized version of the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement. The mayors' pact originated in February 2005 when the United States failed to sign on to the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement approved by 141 other countries that aimed to address global climate disruption by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which contribute to global warming. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels launched an initiative to get mayors in 141 U.S. cities to sign on to advance the Kyoto goals through local measures of their own.
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