Bloomberg on Sign a Global Treaty

It's a safe assumption that Bloomberg would sign America up for a global treaty. From the mayors climate conference in November:

It’s time for America to re-establish its leadership on all issues of international importance, including climate change. Because if we are going to remain the world’s moral compass — a role that we played throughout the 20th century, not always perfectly, but pretty darn well — we need to regain our footing on the world stage...The fight against global warming is a test of America’s leadership — and not just on the environment.

There's other evidence too. Back in 2005, Bloomberg joined mayors nationwide in a pledge to meet the Kyoto Protocol for New York City and bring carbon emissions to levels 7 percent below those of 1990, by 2012. The effort was a direct rebuff to Bush's negligence on solving climate through an international framework. And in 2007, New York City, thanks to Bloomberg, was host to the C40 Large Cities Summit, which brought together mayors from the biggest cities in the world to work together on climate change. In December, Bloomberg heads to the much-anticipated UN climate change conference in Bali. He'll be delivering a speech on behalf of C40. Stay tuned.