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Welcome to Citiwire.net! Climate issues rule in this week’s column pair. My piece focuses on the critical role–often obscured in regular news coverage–of cities across the world in the struggle to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Citistates Associate Anthony Flint focuses on some of the emerging land use assessment and planning tools that cities and regions can use to control and keep track of their CO2 emissions. We’ll keep returning to these topics of climate and cities/regions–arguably they’re key to the human story in this century. … On the broad issue of international urban policy, readers may want to check the website listing events of World Habitat Day in Washington October 5, and related events.