Secretary of State John Kerry says cities need to take the lead on climate change, because national governments are falling down on the job.
“A lot of mayors around the world are ahead of their national governments, and a lot of local citizens are well ahead of their elected leaders,” Kerry told The Washington Post. “I think we need to find a way to highlight that.” [...]
Of course, cities are already doing laps around national governments when it comes to the climate fight, and have been for some time. In 2005, when the George W. Bush administration refused to sign on to the Kyoto treaty, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels announced that his city bloody well would, and he challenged other mayors to do the same. Five hundred of them did.