Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signs climate-change pact at Mexico City summit

Hoping to place cities at the forefront of global climate-change policy efforts, leaders of more than 100 urban centers, including L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, pledged on Sunday in Mexico City to commit their governments to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The so-called Mexico City Pact is a precursor to climate-change talks with world governments opening next week in the Mexican resort city of Cancun. Countries will attempt once more to come up with a binding treaty to rein in global warming after the failure to do so at United Nations talks in Denmark last year.

Read more at La Plaza: "World mayors sign climate-change pact in Mexico City."

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Photo: Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard, center, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, at left, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at the event Nov. 21, 2010. Credit: World Mayors Summit on Climate Change

Comments

[Susana Bailey]

Carlos Slim is in the photo, in the background. He oversees it all...

[Andy K]

Our Mayor doesn't have a clue. He has enough budget problems here and instead of grandstanding he should be home taking care of the problems. I would enjoy seeing him trying to explain global warming in a 30 minute speech, no notes. That would be a very short news conference.

[JoeMain]

Is it me or does this look like one of those pictures you take of your preschooler on Art Day.

[Thetired]

It's great how these guys get two really sweet vacations out of poluting the air by flying all over to make a pact that could've been set up over email. Can't wait to see what actions they'll condem the public for that they all participate in daily. If Mayor Villaraigosa really wants to do something productive, try lobbying for a real system of public transportation in LA and Southern CA.

[TonyTheTiger]

Antonio, you won't need to worry about Los Angeles contributing to "global warming," because your policies and those of the city council will soon drive all those big nasty pollution-generating businesses away. L.A. will then truly be a "third world city"...no jobs, but we'll be really "green." How about focusing on the things that matter to your constituents? [hint: that would be jobs, not global warming].

[Denise]

What an idiot! Why do people continue to push global warming when it had been established that all of the data was manufactured?

[Terry Black]

Denise says the data on global warming was "manufactured." This is a common misconception. Three independent panels cleared the "ClimateGate" scientists in East Anglia of wrongdoing, and they were only a small part of the thousands of studies of the past three decades that support the truth of man-made warming.

You can read about the consensus here:

http://www.logicalscience.com/consensus/consensusD1.htm

[Another idiot]

What a waste of time, he is only a mayor and a sad one at that. He spends so much wasted time in front of cameras, going on time wasting trips and womanizing. We need a real leader, not a recycled guy like this.

[trajan]

Its sad to see politicians getting ready to tax people over this global warming scam. There really is nothing that Los Angeles or Mexico can do to stop the change in the earths positioning or magnetic polarity that causes climate change to happen.
Politicians fund the scientist and they know that all they have to do is to pull the funding and they will have all the reasons for global warming that they need to raise taxes on people.
It is time for this corruption and manipulation to stop! I suppose these so-called leaders of ours need to do a better job of coming up with great ideas that can move our society forward without the manipulation and corruption.
Villarraigosa can start with all of the illegal immigransts that have flooded over our borders and trashed(polluted) our communities and make more ghettos here. The next time he speaks at an illegal immigration rally he can talk about places like MacArthur Park that have become dumps under the strain of illegals. Our Mayor can mention the damage to our environment that is being done all over the city by the tremendous influx of poor illegal immigrants and explain to people why he does nothing yet thinks that he can do something about global warming?

[Eat Nopales]

Denise.. why do you think the data was manufactured since it has been conclusively proven that climate change naysayers spread the lie that it had been manufactured? What are you?

[skip]

Glad to see LA is doing something rather than just wait and see.

[WTResident]

Can he stay in Mexico?

[Thomas46]

Politics of science or the Science of politics.
Either way it's a good excuse to redistribute from the makers to the takers.
And like the hokie-pokie, That's what's all about.

[pmg]

He should stay there.

[Barbara Long Beach]

where ever there is a camera... you can find the mayor! I hope he moves to Mexico and stays there.... I'm sorry I voted for him!

[Jack43]

There are so many things we, as a nation, a state, and a city should be doing to make the world a better place. Unfortunately, we had drained the bank and are bankrupting the tax payers funding all kinds of nonsense and pork barrel projects.

So, when you see the homeless in the streets, the ill and infirm struggling with poor care, crime running rampant for want of adequate policing and prosectuion, and, yes, even polluters damaging our environment, blame yourselves, all of you who have elected and reelected the current occupants of the state legislature, city halls, governor's mansion, and county councils, who have squandered our wealth.

BTW, how much did the mayor's trip set us back this time?

[Andy K]

The writer who said global warming is "conclusively proven" is smoking something, they can't even predict the weather 6 weeks from now.

[Ken P.]

Mexico City is one of the dirtiest cities on the planet. They need to clean up the corruption and the air pollution.

[FutureUser]

Global Warming is more than just a hoax, it is a *Colossal Mistake*. While the UN's 22 climate models erroneously assume a positive, heat-increasing feedback for clouds and water vapor, the actual measurements show a cooling, negative-feedback effect. This means that CO2 cannot and will not cause runaway global warming, no matter how much is in the atmosphere. In fact, 1350 PPM is the ideal concentration of CO2 for plants -- we are not even up to a measly 400 PPM yet.

Watch in a few years when we have a very cold planet and some very stupid so-called "visionary" leaders exposed as dupes, frauds, and gangsters.

[kuruc]

many of you believe in woman made global warming? i guess you don't believe in the power of nature?

[savvydude]

This is the same mayor who is suing Kern County so that he can send all of LA's sewer waste over the grapevine so it can be spread over farmland. The citizens of Kern voted to prohibit the mayor's actions, so he is suing them.

How does he transport the sewer waste, you ask? 18-wheelers, that's how. They load it up and truck it 100 miles in big-rigs, belching exhaust all over LA and Kern.

Mayor V. is a fraud and liar.

[Teri]

A walk down the beach would tell you everything about Los Angeles. Discarded car oil containers,dead birds,plastic caps,fast food wrappers,old ballons,cigarette lighters,etc.etc. Mayor, why don,t you do something about the trash being thrown from cars, educate YOUR people not to trash California. I know in Mexico they have no laws, but why don,t your people follow any here

[TheBigPicture]

I think Mexico needs to focus on their killing fields first before they even think about acting like a 1st world nation with 1st world problems...

[AAAAANDRE]

How much tax will THAT cost us???

[jay]

LOL Toronto just sent our Climate Change mayor packing.. 7 years of that moron almost ruined the city.. Its good to see what thinking outside the progressive box might bring..