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Fifty mayors from cities around the world come together in San Francisco to sign the Urban Environmental Accords. The nonbinding agreement sets goals in areas such as waste reduction, urban design, and clean water, and charges cities to begin to meet thes
Mayors from cities around the globe signed a document with an ambitious set of goals designed to make their cities greener. The Urban Environmental Accords sets out twenty-one actions in areas ranging from energy to transportation to environmental health and mayors will work over the next seven years to implement the objectives. The Accords signing was the culmination of the World Environment Day Conference. Living on Earth’s Eileen Bolinsky reports.