Seattle to Kyoto: You can’t get there by car

If Seattle is going to do its part to slow global warming, people are going to have to get out of their cars.

That’s the cornerstone — and also the biggest challenge — of a plan to be unveiled today for how the city can join countries from around the world in trying to meet the Kyoto Protocol, a 1997 international treaty to reduce climate-changing gases such as carbon dioxide.

The report, written at the request of Mayor Greg Nickels, says that if the city really wants to cut greenhouse gases, it needs to spend millions more on transit, build more compact neighborhoods, encourage energy efficiency and use more fuels from plants rather than petroleum.

By Warren Cornwall

Seattle Times staff reporter

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