Los Angeles and Beijing Agree on Pollution Plan

Mayors of a dozen cities in the U.S. and China are nailing down agreements to team up in the fight against climate change, starting with a plan forged over the weekend between the officials of Los Angeles and Beijing to collaborate in promoting clean air in their cities.

The final deals will be unveiled Monday and Tuesday as the municipal leaders spell out how they plan to help meet goals set last fall in a landmark climate agreement between President Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The deals will be signed and announced as part of a climate summit convened in Los Angeles by Mayor Eric Garcetti as part of a group attempt to push other world leaders to set their own plans and put them in motion.

“It’s great when national leaders set big goals like this,” Garcetti said in an interview Sunday. “But if you don’t have local leaders carrying them out, they’re just words on a page.”