United States Conference of Mayors
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The United States Conference of Mayors is a nonpartisan organization founded in 1932. Its membership consists of cities in the United States with populations of 30,000 or more. In 2006, it counted 1,139 such cities. Each city is represented in the Conference by its mayor.
The organization emerged from the efforts of depression-era mayors to lobby the federal government for aid. After the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover, the Conference wrote its charter.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors also houses the Mayors Center for Climate Protection, which was first created in Spring 2007 to: provide research and resources, best practices, grassroots support, and other tools for mayors to help reduce global warming in American cities. The U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, that was initially led by Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, is also now part of the Mayors Center for Climate Protection. The goal of the Center is to get hundreds of mayors from all 50 states to sign the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, which seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 7% from 1990 levels by 2012.
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