US mayors meet on climate change (BBC)

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More than 100 US mayors are attending a summit in the western city of Seattle to share and develop policies aimed at tackling climate change.

Seattle's own mayor said it was up to individual cities to take on the principles of the Kyoto Protocol, which the US government has not signed up to.

"Our federal government has ignored the problem," Greg Nickels said.

Seattle says it has exceeded Kyoto goals itself, cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 8% below 1990 levels.

Most of the 110 mayors at the summit are keen to highlight the distance between their policies on climate change and those of the federal government 4,500km away, the BBC's Vincent Dowd reports from the conference.
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