"Conference: US Mayors May Shape National Climate Policy"

"MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- With the Trump administration's withdrawal from the Paris climate accords, national policy on climate change will emerge from U.S. cities working to reduce emissions and become more resilient to rising sea levels, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said at the annual U.S. Conferences of Mayors meeting in Miami Beach.

The conference supported the Paris agreement, and according to preliminary results released Saturday morning from an ongoing nationwide survey, the vast majority of U.S. mayors want to work together and with the private sector to respond to climate change.

'There's near unanimity in this conference that climate change is real and that humans contribute to it. There may be a little bit of a disagreement about how actually to deal with it,' said Landrieu, who will replace Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett as conference president this weekend."

Jennifer Kay reports for the Associated Press June 24, 2017.

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