2012: The year cities stood up to climate change — and took a beating

Grist: A year ago, as the curtain was closing on 2011, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood in front of an audience at the United Nations and declared that it would be cities, not national governments, that would lead the fight against climate change. "As mayors - the great pragmatists of the world's stage and directly responsible for the well-being of the majority of the world's people - we don't have the luxury of simply talking about change but not delivering it," he said. 2012 would prove...

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