Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger plans to carry California's climate change story to a conference in Copenhagen next week, a move that will burnish his international image as a leader in the war on global warming.
He'll also take an entourage of 20 administration officials to Denmark. Three nonprofit organizations are picking up the tab.
Administration officials say the trip and a speech Schwarzenegger will deliver on Tuesday at the United Nations conference will underscore how he has fought a political guerrilla war to cut greenhouse gas emissions – often against naysayers in his own Republican Party – as a state executive acting on what is usually considered a national or international issue.
"This matters because it's the governor following through on his leadership," said Dan Pellissier, Schwarzenegger's deputy secretary for energy and development. "He's established (environmental issues) as a key part of of his tenure."
Schwarzenegger and other state officials will meet with more than 100 international leaders and 15,000 participants at the COP 15 United Nations Climate Change Conference, which started Monday and ends Dec. 18. World leaders have gathered there to work out international agreements to curtail fossil-fuel emissions that many scientists believe are speeding up global warming.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Schwarzenegger to take state climate story to Copenhagen
via fresnobee.com
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