| 16 December 2009
Mayor Bloomberg talked up climate change at the Copenhagen summit yesterday, pointing to a new air-quality survey back home showing some of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods -- including his own -- are among the most polluted.
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Bloomberg defended traveling to the conference in his private jet, which critics charge makes him a polluter.
"The bottom line is a small amount of pollution gets me here and hopefully we can convince a lot of people to make a big difference," he said.
Bloomberg traveled with a photographer, an advance person, his spokesman, a deputy mayor and one of his environmental officials.


