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...local governments can do about climate change, and it couldn't come at a more appropriate time. While Washington under President George W. Bush all but ignored climate change, California - with the Republican Schwarzenegger sometimes leading and sometimes following - embarked on its own green path, passing a landmark carbon-emissions cap for the state in 2006 and aggressively promoting renewable energy. Today, California's clean-tech sector is a rare bright spot in a state that is struggling with economic problems. California is where "technology met policy," said Terry Tamminen, the former secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency...
...renewable sources by 2020 - well above the 15% national standard that current climate bills circulating in Congress would require. California is not alone: more than half the states in the U.S. have similar renewable energy standards, and states in the West and the Northeast have begun to form regional carbon cap-and-trade programs. "This is an incredible opportunity to create the economies of the future and we must seize it," Schwarzenegger said in his opening speech at the summit on Sept. 30. "We are calling on our national governments to recognize the innovative solutions we have to offer." (Watch...
...need to be carried out at the state and city level, the governors in L.A. noted. The summit "is part of that global groundswell that perceives the threats from climate change, but also the inordinate opportunities if the world acts now and in concert to transit to a low carbon, green economy," said Achim Steiner, executive director for the U.N. Environment Program...
...Governors' summit is deforestation, another key issue in the run-up to Copenhagen. Eleven governors from states and provinces in Brazil, Indonesia, Canada and the U.S. issued a collective call for national governments to stop the loss of tropical forests, which accounts for up to one-fifth of global carbon emissions. On Friday, the last day of the summit, local leaders will sign agreements to work together on clean transportation and climate adaptation. With prospects for a complete treaty in Copenhagen diminishing - due largely to foot-dragging in Washington - what's needed now, as Schwarzenegger repeated at the summit...
...might be a battle between politics and science going forward as carbon keeps getting pumped into the atmosphere and the days remaining before Copenhagen tick away. But as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told a group of reporters on Tuesday, "You can't negotiate with nature. [Climate change] is just coming." Not even the Senate can argue with that...