Earlier this year a group of mayors clung together in the name of the Paris Climate Accord. They insisted, wrongly, that the “treaty” was necessary and they intended to take action locally to support its goals. Some 379 municipal leaders signed on to Climate Mayors.org, which was all most of them ever intended.
As a group, they have done nothing meaningful since.
The last ‘Letter’s and Statements’ entry is from March of 2017. There hasn’t been an update on Facebook since June 30th of this year. The climate action compendium “a collection of concise but detailed information about a particular subject” has no entries but not to worry, this is “coming soon.”
Given how desperate everyone sounded when Mr. Trump suggested a departure from the agreement I would have thought they’d take this more seriously. Actually, I didn’t. I painted the climate mayors movement as a joke.
The mayors of Portsmouth and Nashua, or any of the other progressive stooges, can talk all they want about independent compliance, but unless they plan to pay the UN protection money, they are not keeping the Paris agreement alive.
Aside from some PR and a few photo-ops, it’s a big nothing burger, which doesn’t mean they aren’t living up to the promises of Paris. Quite the opposite. The Paris Climate Accord was always a big nothing-burger. Just like that those remarks by Rob Werner, state director of the New Hampshire League of Conservation Voters and a Concord city councilor.
Werner said the organization has reached out to all 13 mayors in the state and expects about half to sign on to the effort.
According to the Climate Mayors Map (which is more of a progressive mayors map than anything else), there are still only three New Hampshire Mayors on-board. Or were they so busy implementing the Paris agreement at the Municipal level that they forgot to update that too?
