{"id":3946,"date":"2009-12-15T12:33:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2009-12-15T12:33:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T20:33:43","slug":"schwarzeneggers-speech-in-copenhagen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/climatewatch\/2009\/12\/15\/schwarzeneggers-speech-in-copenhagen\/","title":{"rendered":"Schwarzenegger&#8217;s Speech in Copenhagen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Here is a transcript of Governor Schwarzenegger&#8217;s speech to the UN climate conference in Copenhagen. It&#8217;s provided by his media relations staff, as insertion of the &#8220;laugh track&#8221; and applause notations may suggest.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for this great introduction, Governor Campbell, or Premier  Campbell. It&#8217;s exactly the way I wrote it. That&#8217;s right. (Laughter) Just joking.  He has been a terrific partner and a great, great friend and of course we will  see each other up there at the Olympics, which is going to be probably the  best-organized Olympics, knowing you. So thank you very much also for your  invitation.<\/p>\n<p>I also want to thank Governor Jose Serra for the wonderful  speech and the very profound things that he said. And you have been also an  extraordinary leader, so thank you very much. Let&#8217;s give him also again another  big hand for the great work. (Applause)<\/p>\n<p>And then Ivo de B\u00f3er from the  U.N., we want to thank him for organizing this and being a great leader and  believing in the subnational governments.<\/p>\n<p>And also we have from  California here some people like Linda Adams, who is in charge of the EPA.  Where&#8217;s Linda Adams? Stand up, Linda. Let&#8217;s give her a big hand. (Applause) Then  Senator Fran Pavley, who is a great, great leader. Where is she? Can you get up?  OK, right there. (Applause) Extraordinary leader in California. Without her we  wouldn&#8217;t have been able to go as far as we did with the reduction of greenhouse  gases and so on. And then we have Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner. Where is she? She  is also here. Let&#8217;s give her also a big hand.<\/p>\n<p>I love giving this speech  here just simply because I&#8217;m not the only one that has an accent. It&#8217;s a good  place to come. (Laughter)<\/p>\n<p>But anyway, it is wonderful to be back here  again. So before I say anything and do anything, let me just thank the U.N. and  the people who have worked very hard on this to make this whole meeting happen.  Let&#8217;s give them a big hand for their great, great organization. (Applause)<\/p>\n<p>I especially want to thank Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for his early  attention to the threat of global climate change and I want to congratulate him  on his great, great leadership on the issue that has brought us all  together.<\/p>\n<p>I am delighted and honored to be with you in Copenhagen. This  is not the first time I&#8217;ve been here; I&#8217;ve been here many, many times before, if  it is for my movie promotions or for coming here for bodybuilding and  weightlifting seminars, or just on vacation and so on. But I never thought then  that one day I will get here as the governor of the great state and talk about  climate change, so this is really terrific. So it&#8217;s great.<\/p>\n<p>And this  city, of course, distinguishes itself by being so clean you can actually swim in  its harbor, even though I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it right now because it&#8217;s a little  cold, of course. But how happy we would be if all the world&#8217;s harbors would be  as clean.<\/p>\n<p>As everyone knows, also in the harbor there is the &#8220;Little  Mermaid,&#8221; the statue based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale. When I was  a boy in Austria, the Andersen fairy tale that I always liked best was &#8220;The Ugly  Duckling.&#8221; And looking back, I think the reason that I liked it was because it  was a tale of transformation and that spoke to me inside. I have always believed  in the tremendous power of personal transformation.<\/p>\n<p>The desire, the  hope, the desperate need for planetary transformation is what brought us  together here. And the question is: is this also a fairy tale? Is it a dream? Is  it a false hope? And if it is not, how do we make it real? Is that something  that we ought to discuss? And this is something that I do want to discuss here  while I&#8217;m here with you. Look around this carbon-conscious city and you should  feel hope. Copenhagen is often voted as one of the most livable cities in the  world.<\/p>\n<p>So the question really is, how do we make the world itself  livable and sustainable? Certainly, it would be terrific if the world&#8217;s  governments reached an agreement and put hard caps on greenhouse gases while  generously helping poor nations, who are least responsible for and least able to  respond to climate change. Attempting to reach such an agreement is good and is  actually very, very important.<\/p>\n<p>But why do we put so many hopes and eggs  into the big international agreement basket when, according to the UN itself, up  to 80 percent of greenhouse gas mitigation will be done at the subnational  level?<\/p>\n<p>In recent weeks, the prospects for this gathering here have gone  up and down, up and own, like a roller-coaster ride. And everyone was in fear,  of like what will the U.S. do? What will China do, or not do? Is it going to be  20 percent reductions or a 17 percent reductions? Is the base 1990 or 2005?  Should it be 350 parts per million or 450 parts per million?<\/p>\n<p>But what if  I said that international agreements, as critical as they are, will never do  enough? What if we took that as a given? Wouldn&#8217;t that expand the possibilities  and approaches for progress we would consider?<\/p>\n<p>I mean, my late  mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the remarkable woman who started Special  Olympics, an organization that dedicates itself to people with intellectual  disabilities, gave me an insight on this. She was the sister of John F. Kennedy  and Robert Kennedy and Teddy Kennedy and she knew everyone in American power and  politics.<\/p>\n<p>But she once told me that while the federal government was  important for policies related to Special Olympics &#8212; such as health care, equal  rights, job creation, dental care and so on &#8212; but she never would have relied  on the federal government to build Special Olympics. She said you need all kinds  of different elements and entities like local government, state government,  volunteers, corporate sponsors, coaches, celebrities and, of course, the  families.<\/p>\n<p>She said that no one from government is going to be there at  the sports events and hug those kids when they come through the finish line, or  organize the competition so there is a finish line in the first place. No one  from government trains those kids so they don&#8217;t hurt themselves or so they know  how to perform those sports. She said, no, that is up to many of us, many  different entities. And she built a movement, a worldwide movement that has  spread to 180-plus countries.<\/p>\n<p>So history tells us that movements began  with the people, not with government and then, when they became powerful enough,  government responds. In the U.S. the labor movement, the women&#8217;s suffrage  movement, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam anti-war movement &#8212; they did  not begin in the corridors of power in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>So there&#8217;s a lesson in  this for our cause. While national governments have been fighting over emission  targets, subnational governments have been adopting their own targets and laws  and policies. While national governments have been trying for years to define  what Kyoto means, businesses are pursuing cutting-edge technologies to solve  energy and environmental problems. While national governments debate how carbon  caps will affect their economies compared to others, many of their citizens are  seeking greener lifestyles on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Government clearly has a major  role, there are no two ways about that. But I also believe in the power of the  iconoclast and the entrepreneur and the individualist. I believe in the power of  the scientists, the capitalists and the activists. I believe in the power of the  cities and the states and the provinces to be laboratories for new ideas, which  the national governments then can go and study and adopt.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, too  often, I think, we fail to see the potential and the progress that is being made  on all those different levels. By putting all of our eggs in one basket, we fail  to see the eggs in the other baskets.<\/p>\n<p>Let me give you a few quick  examples.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Rajendra Pachuari, who came to our environmental summit in  California just recently, he has his own target. He is replacing kerosene and  paraffin lanterns with solar light for 400 million rural people in India &#8212; 400  million people in India. Think about that. So if the nations of the world do not  sign a carbon agreement, does that mean the doctor&#8217;s transformative work in  India doesn&#8217;t count?<\/p>\n<p>In the U.S., in the small town of Roscoe, Texas, a  German company has completed the world&#8217;s largest wind farm. If we don&#8217;t reach a  major carbon agreement, does that mean the Texas wind farm doesn&#8217;t really count?<\/p>\n<p>With the assistance of Greenpeace, four of the world&#8217;s largest meat  producers agreed not to buy cattle from newly deforested areas of the Amazon.  That doesn&#8217;t count?<\/p>\n<p>The head of an energy company in China recently said  of renewable and efficient energy, &#8220;We think that this is a new business for us,  not a burden.&#8221; And China now is becoming the leader in developing and  manufacturing renewable energy equipment. That doesn&#8217;t count?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, sure,  they all count. And they reveal that something is happening, something that is  happening below the national level.<\/p>\n<p>California, for instance, is working  with cities and with states and provinces and regions and nations, including  Mexican states, Canadian and Chinese provinces and European nations. We&#8217;re even  working with the U.N. to assist developing countries, especially in Africa. We  are trying to foment change and collaboration and movement. We&#8217;re doing  everything we can to change the balance of power on the environment.<\/p>\n<p>And  of course when I talk about California, I realize that while we may lead America  and many other countries environmentally, Denmark here is already one-third more  energy efficient. Isn&#8217;t that fantastic? And Europe is a great leader in this  whole thing.<\/p>\n<p>But the reason for discussing my adopted home state of  California is because, first of all, I&#8217;m the governor of the great state of  California and I have a little right to brag about our state, right? And also,  California is the seventh largest economy in the world and also America&#8217;s  trendsetter, so what we do has consequences. Now, maybe when you look at the  globe it is just a little dot, or maybe you cannot even find California. But the  power of influence we have is equivalent to a continent. And we in California do  not believe and we do not behave, as if progress has to wait for Washington or  Beijing or Kyoto.<\/p>\n<p>In California, we are proceeding on renewable energy  requirements and a cap and trade system for greenhouse gases. We are moving  forward. As a matter of fact, we are making great progress. If hydro is  included, we will get 45 percent of our energy from renewables in ten years from  now and we are already at 27 percent.<\/p>\n<p>We are proceeding on the world&#8217;s  first low carbon fuel standards and limiting greenhouse gas emissions from cars  which, by the way, the Obama Administration has now just adopted. We are  proceeding in a major way on green tech, no matter what happens in Washington or  in Copenhagen. Billions of dollars, nearly 60 percent of all venture capital in  America, flows to California and this is creating the critical mass of money and  intellect to develop new green technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from around the  world are coming to California to see what we&#8217;re doing. I took the French  Foreign Trade Minister to a business in San Francisco called Solazyme, which was  just recently named the most innovative bio-energy company. They have come up  with a way to convert algae into a fuel that is 90 percent cleaner than  petroleum-based fuels. The U.S. Navy has just signed an agreement with them and  is going to use that fuel to power some of its ships.<\/p>\n<p>So from what I see  in the research labs and venture capital start-ups around the globe, I believe  that the world&#8217;s businesses will move to solar and to wind and alternatives much  faster than the people expect.<\/p>\n<p>Kenya, for instance. Kenya already gets  nearly three-quarters of its power from hydroelectric and from geothermal &#8212;  three-quarters. And next month it will begin work on a $760 million wind farm  that by 2012 will increase Kenya&#8217;s power supply by about 30 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Now,  the uplifting thing is that the developing nations will be able to leapfrog into  the green economy and skip the fossil-fueled industrial revolution. Isn&#8217;t that  wonderful?<\/p>\n<p>I believe that we have economics on our side. Since the supply  of wind and sun and algae is unlimited, their prices will not jump. That cannot  be said of oil, the supply of which is limited and declining. That cannot be  said of coal, whose costs of extraction and labor and transportation are bound  to rise.<\/p>\n<p>So I believe technological and economic forces will overtake the  political and the regulatory efforts of national governments. We are beginning  one of history&#8217;s great transitions &#8211; the transition to a new economic foundation  for the 21st century and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t we organize to encourage this  transition even as we continue to work toward international compacts? Of course  we should. Now, if this conference does not get a strong agreement, some will  say that Copenhagen has failed, that we talk grandly but we are fooling  ourselves, much like the fairy tale, &#8220;The Emperor Has No Clothes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And  others will say that any agreement that is being reached isn&#8217;t enough because  the world is going to melt and we&#8217;re going to die anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Others will  say, &#8220;Look at those crazy people trying to wreck the global economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No,  ladies and gentlemen, this conference is automatically and already a success.<\/p>\n<p>Kyoto brought the world&#8217;s focus to what must be done. It brought the  focus to that whole subject. We didn&#8217;t know then what we know now. We didn&#8217;t  have as much experience with the science that we would research or the hurdles  we would face. But Kyoto made us think differently about the world.<\/p>\n<p>And  perhaps the real success of Copenhagen is to give us the opportunity to think  differently again. Perhaps the success comes in realizing that something  different needs to be done and in fact is already being done. It&#8217;s being done at  the sub-national level.<\/p>\n<p>And I would ask the U.N. to convene a climate  summit like Copenhagen but for cities, for states, for provinces and for  regions. And I will be more than happy to host such a summit in California or  anywhere else the U.N. wants to hold it but I recommend strongly in California.  (Applause) People like coming to California. They love our state.<\/p>\n<p>So  ladies and gentlemen, the world&#8217;s governments alone cannot make progress, the  kind of progress that is needed on global climate change. They alone cannot do  it. They need everyone coming together, everyone working together. They need the  cities, they need the states, they need the provinces and the regions. They need  the corporations, the activists, the scientists and the universities. They need  the individuals whose vision and determination create movements. They need  everybody out there.<\/p>\n<p>So ladies and gentlemen, let us regain our  momentum, let us regain our purpose, let us regain our hope by liberating the  transformative power beneath the national level.<br \/>\nThat can be the great  contribution of Copenhagen &#8212; that could be the great contribution of  Copenhagen.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you for inviting me. Thank you for your kind  attention and warm hospitality. And thank you for the great passion and for the  hard work that you all do. And it is very important that we continue with this  work.<\/p>\n<p>So thank you very much and I&#8217;ll be back. 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