"You could have icebergs around Britain," says David Griggs, director of climate research at Britain's Met Office.
Jeremy Symons, the director of climate and political affairs at the Environmental Defense Fund, advocated a big-tent approach.
Ms. Page (left), 41, is the director of climate and energy strategy at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, Calif.
The lead author, Adam Markham, is deputy director of climate and energy at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Becky Chacko, the director of climate policy at CI, tells me these subnational targets are only a first step, and they will support national targets in time.
Becky Chacko, director of Climate Change policy for Conservation International said: "The Mexicans have tried very hard to maintain an atmosphere of transparency and inconclusiveness.
After years of work as an environmental advocate and for the Clinton administration, Mr. Reicher is director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google.
This kind of clarity does not exist on heat-trapping, or greenhouse, gases, said David Doniger, policy director of climate change of the Natural Resource Defense Council.
The results are vexing for American scientists, said Dr. Maurice Blackmon, director of climate studies at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.
And she was a founding director of Climate Central, a Web site that went online last year with what she calls "credible and nonadvocacy" information on global warming.
