GREEN CITIES DECLARATION

Mayors from around the globe are meeting in San Francisco for World Environment Day. The United Nations, once content to meddle at the national level is now seeking to meddle at the city level, thereby exerting much greater control over our lives:

ACKNOWLEDGING the importance of the obligations and spirit of the 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment, the 1992 Rio Earth Summit (UNCED), the 1996 Istanbul Conference on Human Settlements, the 2000 Millennium Development Goals, and the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development, we see the Urban Environmental Accords described below as a synergistic extension of the efforts to advance sustainability, foster vibrant economies, promote social equity, and protect the planet’s natural systems.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, today on World Environment Day 2005 in San Francisco, we the signatory Mayors have come together to write a new chapter in the history of global cooperation. We commit to promote this collaborative platform and to build an ecologically sustainable, economically dynamic, and socially equitable future for our urban citizens; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that we call to action our fellow Mayors around the world to sign the Urban Environmental Accords and collaborate with us to implement the Accords; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that by signing these Urban Accords Environmental Accords, we commit ourselves to moving vital issues of sustainability to the top of our legislative agendas. By implementing the Urban Environmental Accords, we aim to realize the right to a clean, healthy, and safe environment for all members of our society.

Follow the link and read the particulars of the massively expensive action plan the mayors have committed to. The lefties are determined to control our lives one way or another. They're unable to win elections, but there's always the UN.

Update: Those arriving via Tim Blair – thanks Tim! – should go here to read about the UN's tough new approach to the genocide that's not a genocide in Sudan.