Why cities are forming a global alliance to curb climate change and other top stories.

• Why cities are forming a global alliance to curb climate change

  

  Most attention on climate change policy has focused on national governments, but can cities, too, help curb global warming?That's the goal of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, a coalition of more than 7,000 cities spanning six continents.The group, created by merging the United Nation’s Compact of Mayors and the EU’s Covenant of Mayors, is a first-of-its-kind global initiative of local governments aimed at supporting each other in “setting ambitious climate reduction goals, ..

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