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We as mayors need to continue to do the good work we’ve been doing. The progress we’ve made should not be taken as a sign to relax, but instead to redouble our efforts. All the science we’re seeing these days indicates that we have years – not decades – to get this planet on the right track – to begin to reverse the devastating impacts of climate change. So I want to challenge my fellow mayors – to continue to be bold; to pilot innovative new solutions; and to push our Federal counterparts to finally join us in this battle by passing meaningful climate protection legislation and bringing a strong and committed U.S. voice to the table in Copenhagen as delegates from around the world set the course for our environmental history

In the end, it will be crystal clear.

And nobody will forget that all this started because 1,000 courageous and broadminded mayors thought of the Earth as well as their neighborhood turf at the same time.

Greg Nickels
Mayor of Seattle
President, The United States Conference of Mayors