No one can bring attention to the issue of climate change quite like former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. ?Now of course I hope there?s an international agreement, I hope there?s a Kyoto 2 because as you know I like sequels,? says Schwarzenegger. He touted AB 32, California?s landmark law to reduce greenhouse gases. And he praised voters for defeating Proposition 23, the effort to undue that law. ?The people of California have terminated, proposition 23, and we said ?hasta la vista baby? to those oil and coal companies and send them back with their fossil fuels where they belong,? he says.

The symposium was organized by the USC Schwarzenegger Institute, the California Air Resources Board and the climate change non-profit ?R 20?. And it comes just weeks before the United Nations Climate Summit in New York. Dan Kammen, lead author of the Nobel-prize winning group of IPCC scientists, stressed the very real consequences of climate change on the world?s poor. ?The people living most on the margins are most left out of this equation," says Kammen. "So if you don?t adopt a clean energy strategy for your home, city, country, region, you are a committing a clear piece of environmental injustice.?

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