National Climate Summit

President Barack Obama                                          
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President,

As the Mayor of _________, I am very concerned about protecting the planet for future generations, and so I applaud your recent statements that climate change is real, is impacted by human behavior, and that we've got an obligation to future generations to do something about it.  I also appreciate your commitment to create "a conversation across the country" to educate Americans about this issue.

I  believe the loss of life, physical damage, economic harm, and personal distress caused by the summer’s extreme weather events, as well as Hurricane Sandy, have increased the importance of holding a national conversation about climate disruption.  The events also underscore the need to scale up our nation’s efforts to prepare for and build resilience to the impacts of a changing climate while also reducing our contribution to the problem by cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Households, businesses, our municipalities, and all other levels of government must be involved in these efforts. Your leadership is needed to help our nation accomplish these goals.

The American public needs to hear directly from you that climate disruption is happening now, poses grave danger to their personal health and safety, the economy, and overall wellbeing, and that left uncontrolled will grow much worse. Most importantly, they need to know that viable solutions are available and that those solutions can generate cost savings, personal health, national security and many other benefits.



Standing with leaders from across the country, I believe a bi-partisan summit with a positive, uplifting, can-do focus would significantly enhance the efforts of people in my city to address this problem. It will also help spur tremendous innovation leading to numerous types of new climate-resilient low-carbon goods and services, jobs, health and many other benefits.

The need for a forceful response to climate disruption is great. I  therefore ask you to host a national summit on climate disruption this year and I will stand with you to support it.

Sincerely,