Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Mayors vaunt progress against climate change, as nations fight over Rio earth summit goals

Associated Press: RIO DE JANEIRO -- While squabbling between rich and poor countries casts a pall over the upcoming United Nations' Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, the world's mayors said Tuesday that they were already taking real, measurable action to stave off environmental disaster and preserve natural resources for future generations. The C40 grouping of mayors from 58 megacities around the globe estimated that the nearly 5,000 measures they've already undertaken to fight global warming could...

URL: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/mayors-vaunt-progress-against-climate-change-as-nations-fight-over-rio-earth-summit-goals/2012/06/19/gJQAK7uboV_story.html

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