by some of his left, thought out ideas. >> i want to see the democrats controlled the congress and the senate. i think it's long overdue to remove trump. he seems to be getting dementia and possibly worse. he seems very erratic, dangerous for the country. that's i want to see the democrats take over. >> voices from the states, part of c-span's 50 capitals tour. >> now a global climate summit created by california governor jerry brown and former new york city mayor michael bloomberg in response to the trump administration decision to withdraw on the paris climate agreement. this is three hours and 20 minutes. ♪ >> please welcome our master of

ceremonies, , the head of communications for bloomberg, linda douglass ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> hello and welcome to the global climate action summit. i am honored and humbled to be here in san francisco with such extraordinary leaders from around the world. these are leaders from every sector, every industry, business, government, technology, philanthropy, entrepreneurs anarchists, inventors, investors, scientists and students all united by a common goal, the goal of protecting the people who live on our planet by confronting the existential threat of climate change. we are off to an auspicious start. on saturday tens of thousands of citizens around the world marched to demand greater climate action to fulfill the promises made three years ago in paris. our task as you well know becomes more urgent every day.

this summer temperatures once again reached record highs. people are dying as wildfires burn their houses to the ground. they are starving as droughts destroy their crops. hurricanes and other disasters have claimed thousands of lives, displacing entire populations causing billions and billions of dollars in damage. and, of course, at this very moment hurricane florence is bearing down on the eastern seaboard and already 1.5 million people have been told to evacuate their homes. florence is set to bring 50% more rainfall due to climate, human-induced climate change. meanwhile, tropical storm olivia sweeping across hawaii and since the start of hurricane season, this is an astonishing number, there have been eight other named storms in the atlantic and 14 more in the pacific.

and here in california more than a dozen different wildfires are tearing across the state. so now is not the time for us to rest. this year marks the halfway point between the adoption of the paris agreement and 2020, a critical moment when carbon emissions most peak if we are to avoid the very worst effects of climate change. by mid century we must be carbon neutral. these are ambitious goals but the speakers you'll be hearing from over the next few days are working hard to achieve them. it won't be easy of the solutions won't be perfect. we are learning by doing as we undertake a more radical shift in our global economy than i'd have been producing undertaken. will make mistakes. we'll see some failures along the way but we cannot and we will not back away from this fight. so all of you here today at all of you watching around the world are proof that we will not back away from this fight. now please join in welcoming someone who is heading the way

writer in san francisco, the newly elected mayor of san francisco, london breed. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> hello, , everyone. it is my distinct pleasure to welcome all of you to san francisco for this incredible global climate action summit. we are united here today to take action on the defining issue of our time. protecting our environment and fighting against time a a chan. this is an issue that is bigger than one city, one region or country. the choices and commitments we make over the next few days at our sustained cooperation will determine if we are able to leave a better future for the next generation.

california has long been a leader on climate action and san francisco has been at the forefront of those efforts. since 1990 we've reduced our greenhouse gas emissions by 30%% and cut our landfill disposal in half, all while growing our economy by 111%. [applause] we are proof that you can have a strong and growing economy while advancing ambitious environmental policies. we were the first major city to ban single use plastic bags, and i pushed legislation to establish a nation strongest styrofoam and and a drug takeback policy. and are 100% renewable energy program clean power has reduced

and resulted in clean house gas reductions equivalent to taking 17,000 cars off our roads. by the year 2030 we are committing to four major initiatives here in san francisco. cutting our landfill waste in half, decarbonization all new buildings, achieving 100% renewable energy, and continuing to issue more green bonds to finance critical infrastructure that's desperately needed to combat climate change. today -- [applause] thank you. today i ask you to join us. the impacts of climate change are not constrained by borders and our actions shouldn't be either. let's send the world a bold message of action, unity and determination. together we can go further to protect our planet and our

people for generations to come. thank you all so much for being here and enjoy your time in san francisco. [applause] ♪ >> it's been said that if we change the way we look at things, the would wood look atl change. to gain a fresh perspective, to seek a new vantage point we have to first be willing to change our minds. >> i really wish everyone could see the world the way i had a chance to see the world. after not other chosen few of us

-- [inaudible] their reward is a sneak peek, when you're floating above the earth you see many different examples of how our desire for natural resources is changing the planet, and not always in a good way. >> right now he went are pumping co2 into our atmosphere, and there isn't is enough time fore earths air-conditioning system to correct the problem. >> launched into space at over 17,000 miles per hour, you look at and you discover how rare, how delicate, how perfectly calibrated the earth really is. >> among the changes we're making to the earth i think it's changes to the atmosphere that we should be the most worried about. >> the plan is getting hotter. how much hotter, that depends on

us. >> does have touched the void return with a global passport. not an american or canadian or russian, and earthling. >> our rock, our planet is important to us. it's special and its unique because it's our home. >> we are all crewmates on the same ship. >> that's a new perspective. how connected and accountable we are to each other and what a responsibility we have to take it of the only place any of us here will ever live. >> we can get a lot smarter because we can learn a lot more from the previous generation. >> when i was on the space station looking back at the planet, it gave me a profound appreciation in what we take for

granted. >> we may not all have the luxury of observing our world from among the stars but the day is coming when the void of space may seem like a more hospitable option and a plan at war with itself and with us. >> it just really gives you a sense of how special this place is where we live. >> so do we have what it takes? is it possible to give our astronauts and even better view from above? one that proves that you're on the ground we were bold, we were resolute and we were willing. willing not only to change our minds but to change our world for the better. i'm robert redford. welcome to the global climate action summit.

[applause] >> well, that use from space help us understand the magnitude of the challenge that we are up against but while our planet looks peaceful from above, for people in many parts of the world climate change is a daily reality that threatens the lifes of threatens their way of life. the people you're about to hear from now know this better than almost anyone because they have seen the devastating effects firsthand. they know what's at stake in the know what it will take to meet the challenges head on. our first speaker is a pioneer,

the female, the first in the prime minister of barbados. she is on the front lines of the fight to save her country and other island nations from the devastation of climate change. please welcome prime minister mia mottley. [applause] >> good morning, everyone. the very existence of my island nation and that of my brothers and sisters in the caribbean, their nation, is threatened as we speak today. i almost didn't make it here today. indeed, as we speak, tropical storm isaac is landing upon dominica, guadeloupe and martinique.

this is the fourth storm or hurricane in three years that the sit in dominica, as we speak. barbados this get the ravages of the 2017 hurricane season, the costliest on record in the caribbean. i season with multiple category five hurricanes in the same year. unprecedented. it cause of the utter devastation of an island that is been inhabited for thousands of years. i refer to barbados, unprecedented. that is with less than one degree of warming. the world is all about the 3° one by the time a child is born today reaches old age. even if the countries the commitments made in first round of the nationally determined contributions. we were lucky in 2017, barbados

that is. we were lucky today, but is it fair and is it equitable that the livelihoods of our people are dependent now upon us staying lucky? even if we avoid an extreme weather event, our ports, our hotels, restaurants, our electricity generation station, our main hospital, the main one along with the majority of her other coastal infrastructure are threatened by the insidious and accelerating rate of sea level rise. coral reefs, our greatest economic asset after our economic capital, are already dead. things that i saw as a child, we no longer see. our reefs dissolve as her ocean become more acidic. even as we do that we are facing and confronting as i speak the

threat, the livelihood of our hotels, our workers and our porch. our dry seasons are getting longer. our droughts are more common. three years ago, seven of the 11 parishes in my nation had difficulty accessing water. access to fresh water is becoming a strain. that is already defined as water stress. indeed, the cost of desalination water is more than ten times that of our current cost of water and we seek to do so as the third most indebted country in the entire world. chicken gunky -- barbados with many of the countries around the

world is already experiencing the adverse impacts of climate change. and we are not content to wait for others to act. barbados is a proud nation, long respected. we've been over later and water technology for almost 50 years, and now we intend to be one of the first examples of how carbon neutrality and -- can be reached. reached. we intend to reassert ourselves on every international front we can engage to combat climate change because we are in a fight for our own existence. indeed, it is for that reason that we are set 2030 as the target for us to have a fossil fuel free economy. [applause]

all of us who lost momentum since pears in 2015, at all the rate of increase has slowed, we've not yet peaked a global emissions but we must do so by 2020. we really cannot afford to wait any longer. there's much work to be done. and affordable predictable climate finance, believe you me, is greatly needed especially for small island states whose culpability is in front of you today as i speak. the the green climate fund muste adequately replenished for it is our only hope in many instances, and access to these funds need to be streamlined. our country barbados has graduated from farming from the world bank because were deemed to be middle income country because of our per capita income.

and yet had that hurricane hit us today, our conversation and our reality would be completely different, but we relish simply don't wallow in definitions made in rooms thousands of miles away from our reality. the agreements and goals that arose out of the week in paris and not be cast aside. not anymore. the next rent of nationally determined contributions will seal our fate, for better or for worse and to the citizens of the world i speak now, not to the government. this is our battle. you see the evidence before our very eyes. we see it. we feel it. we don't have the power to change the small things, but there are some things we can change. we can change how we save water.

we can turn off the tap each time we brush our teeth. we can change how we save energy. energy. we can turn off the lights in the air conditioners as we. we can change our oceans and save our oceans by ensuring that that which we put in it is not to too polluted like straws and plastics. if each when does this then we can save our world because many hands make light work. with the technology today we can see each other whenever and wherever we choose. across borders, across regions, across races. for our climate knows no boundaries. it respects no class but it will respect numbers, as politicians do. it will respect numbers acting in concert. it will respect thousands and millions of people acting

together, we just have to change our minds and transform how we live to save our world. i look to anyone in this room to act. but i look to everyone who hears my voice to act. for my country and for our region, for our island nations in the caribbean and the pacific, for vulnerable images everywhere. our future and the future generations yet to come is at stake. and if the wait any longer it will be far too late to save it. my friends, my friends across the world, the time for talk has passed. this is truly the time for action. not just the action of leaders in governments, but the actions of you and you and you and you and you, and me. thank you. bless you. [applause] ♪

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>> my name is dana tizya-tramm, vuntut gwitchin, 80 miles north of the arctic circle. my peoples or history stretching back over 28,000 years teaches us that we are intrinsically tied to the land, the air, waters and animals. today the rights of my people to continue our ways of life are in jeopardy as never before. we face the dual connect threats of climate change and the oil drilling that fuels it. our sensitive region is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet. the permafrost under our feet is melting while all companies pump chemicals into it to prolong their operations. as it warms the permafrost releases for altering amounts f methane and mercury. now the sigar lands of my people, the largest land migration error on earth, the

animals are being threatened by the same industry responsible for this warming. without consulting as the arctic national wildlife refuge is late to endure intensive seismic exploration beginning this winter as the first step in wholesale and gas development. even the weight of the vehicles scarpa sensitive landscape beyond recognition. these lands and waters are the very bodies the caribou and migrating animals our lifeblood. my people are committed to a future where fossil fuels to not ruin our earth. in my village we are constructing a solar form of 2000 panels, the largest such project in the arctic north. this is just the beginning in reestablishing our ancient ballads with our lands through sustainable technologies. we cannot do this alone. the world must understand that none of us are separated from this planet. each other what is happening today. respect for indigenous rights is key to skimming and reversing

climate change. that disregard of our people as the disregard of this planet, and even themselves. these are the teachings of my ancestors and elders, people who still remember these ancient truths. and for that i i give you thans for listening today. [applause] ♪ .. >> this is my very good friend yohan, and we're here to not

only welcome you to the global climate access summit, but we're here to tell you a story. a story of the journey that we're already on of exponential transformation already evolving in front of us. however, before we start the story, why don't you tell us why is exponential transformation actually necessary? >> it starts with a big picture. after 50 years of rising human pressures on earth, we have reached the saturation point, the point in 2018 where mother earth is ending social and economic invoices in the form of extreme events across the entire world right as we speak, seeing in the front of us, causing tremendous impacts across the entire planet. the scientific message is very clear, things are changing faster than we had predicted. the unprecedented, the largest ever observed forest fires in

california, all the way to forest fires, droughts, and water and tropical heat, even in the arctic, most likely connected to the slowdown of the arctic vortex caused by the amplyfied melting of arctic ice influesing the jetstream causing and locking high temperatures in europe to the drought and temperature rise in australia, leading to floods in pakistan, the unprecedented floods with the need to reinvest in the entire state, all the way to unprecedented events from floods, droughts, across the entire planet. we see the impacts in terms of warming oceans absorbing so much of our impact with now coral bleaching, acidfications and the great barrier reef, crossing an irreversible

tippingpoint. and the even bigger picture is our 100 year journey, 100 year journey what was normal 100 years back and is now the new normal. we're seeing across all continents rising temperatures leading to very significant impacts across the entire social and economic fabric that we all depend on. in fact, can you believe it, we've now reached one degree celsius warming on planet earth, the highest on planet earth since the last ice age. we are at the point, at the edge where we need to start tran formation. there's an even bigger picture, the rising scientific evidence that the earth system has only stayed below two degrees so far thanks to the resilience of your system. we have 50% of our gas emissions taken up in land.

earth remains still our best friend, but we're learning that there are tippingpoints from the risk of losing methane, to pe perma frost, the degradation of the jetstream and the oceans. we have so much evidence that the tipping points regulate our ability to have so much in the cooling planet and the tipping point and earth would move irreversibly to a self-amplifying temperature. and we have the tipping point from the amazon rain forest, switching topher a savannah. and we may be entering a threshold where we could have an irreversible travel into a

hot house earth. >> and will we have a hot house earth. >> despite our unsustainable behavior across all sectors of society, we have the opportunity of transforming to a decarbonized future and 1.5. the paris agreement has unprecedented scientific support. the pathway we need in paris, we need to bend the curve no later than 2020 in two year's time and decarbonization roughly at 67% reduction every year and a pathway that we call the global carbon law. if we can cut emissions by half every decade, we can take us to paris and if this is the transformation pathway that could take us to the decarbonized world by 2050. we need to transform the system from being the single largest

source of emissions to becoming the single largest sink of emissions, an agricultural revolution. [applause] >> whether we like it or not, we need to recognize the need to have carbon capture and storage and biological capture and storage, but we need to maintain the carbon and natural eco systems and all of this, dear friends, if we decarbonize according to the carbon law, transform system systems and keep eco systems and we have a 66% chance of staying under 2 degrees celsius. this is a global transformation. it is an exponential journey. >> so, let's just understand what exponential actually means because frankly we're not use today thinking exponentially, right? so, if i take, more or less, 37 steps in a linear fashion, that will be the length of this fantastic stage, more or less.

37 steps linearly. now, if we think about these steps in exponential terms and we think we are going to be exponential by two. then we would take one step, then two, then four, then eight, 16, 32 and we pit the picture, you can do the math as well as i. you have fundamentally different results. if we start here today and we take 20 exponential steps, will be in l.a. if we take 23 exponential steps, we will be in new york. if we take 26 we will be back in l.a. because we have gone all around the planet. if we take 30 exponential steps we will be on the moon and if we take 37, we will be on mars. that is the difference between linear and exponential, and there's a difference between linear progress and exponential progress when we think about

climate change. from mars, let's come back to earth and see, are we actually on an exponential path? well, yohan and i would like today to put forward that we actually are on an exponential path at least in some sectors. let's begin with what we have seen in renewable energy. there we have definitely seen ten years ago, let's be frank, renewable energy was a boutique operation. but now, with the growth of both solar and wind, we have gone to a doubling of renewable energy every 5.5 years. that means, if we continue that trend, exponential trend, we will actually be pretty safely even, discounting for all the challenges that we're going to have. we're going to be pretty safely at 50% rein youable energy by 2030. something unthinkable just ten years ago and definitely the evident for exponential

progress. now let's look to the latest exciting, the latest exciting news at that we all read in the newspapers every day, which is what is happening in electric vehicles. quite exciting. frankly, ten years ago, electric vehicles were science fiction. now we have every major car company already putting forward their electric models for all of their old internal combustion engine models and we have a growing number of countries that are setting dates for banning the sale of new vehicles if they are internal combustion, ie, regulating that all new vehicles will have to be electric. currently, the up-tick in electric vehicles is actually following market paths. but once these policies come into effect, we will have electric vehicles in the market

following an exponential path just through the combination of market forces and its policies. then we have, let's look at the green finance sector, a very exciting sector. just on green. and let's remember that we know in order to transform the global economy we need to invest at least a trillion dollar every year into green infrastructure and just on green bonds, one of the financial instruments, where have we gone? we have gone from where we were practically unheard of instruments certainly ten years ago, to now already an exponential curve, which, if followed, up until 2021, we will be at 1 trillion dollars just with green bonds. another exponential curve we're

beginning to see, the movement started in 2013 and already now at 6 trillion with exponential curves to look forward to and then carbon pricing, yet another financial instrument to accelerate low carbon economic growth, the going word on the street is that carbon pricing is not occurring, not true. you can see how much is actually already occurring in -- certainly in terms of countries, but also in terms of coverage of greenhouse gases with more news to come very soon. so, across the green finance sector with different instruments, with different takes, we are starting to see the exponential curve moving forward. that, of course, means that companies are now able to take science based targets and we

have then again, up tick in companies and zero net by 2050 and stay tuned for very exciting announcement that will come today that will take us beyond where we are right now at this moment of 476 companies. all of this together means that countries are actually able to peak emissions and by 2020 we know we will have 53 countries who will have been able to peak that greenhouse gas emissions while increasing their gdp. we're beginning to disassociate the two curves of economic growth and ghg growth which is called for in the paris agreement. so, yohan. >> where are we heading-- >> i have to be frank with you hold on. i have to be frank with you. all of what i said is well and good and only covers the two sectors.

what happens with the other sectors? >> it almost puts us in a point of schizophrenia because there's never been a reason to be so nervous than today based on science. but never to be no heopeful. when hurricane florence is about to hit north carolina, and we know it's an unnatural bath due to the weakeneded jetstream, releasing these positives. for the first time we have action built on empirical evidence that you just presented and looking at the next 12 years. what is the road map to cut emissions by half by 2030, the next 12 years, following the global carbon laws that could take us to paris. and this maps out the best that we have, the solutions which are scaleable. which are potentially

beneficial, both socially and economically across all sectors in society. this covers the whole transport, energy, buildings. it is a careful walk through of all the mapping that had been done from private sector, from policy, from countries around the world, to see what is realistically achievable wedge by wedge, scale by scale, and what we find is that, yes, we can reach 50% electricity, coming from solar, wind, by 2030 on the current trajectories, and most excitingly when it comes to food consumption and land use, we hear, what is the dark horse, the final battle ground when we reach paris is not only about decarbonizing the energy system, but sustainable and healthy food systems and even here, the solutions are in place. we have the technologies and we can succeed.

minimizing food waste and sustaining intensification and recycling, resources and getting the new energy balances in our eco systems and landscape. and this just shows we are on path to success. >> so, to support this transformation, this exponential transformation, as you know, all nations capable, and it's a path toward decarbonization to the global economy. we in the meantime have taken that path and we are building the moments between now and 2020 to ensure that we're keeping track of the exponential progress that we're seeing and, in fact, increasing that exponential progress. but 2020 is only two minutes from now. and over the next few months in preparation for 2020, when countries must come together again to assess what they have been able to do, what the private sector has done. what investment has done, what

technologies have moved forward, they will have to come together to the table to step up their national ambition once again. because there is in the paris agreement a five-year cycle which we call the mechanism in which every five years, countries need to upgrade and update their aspirations based on the reality that they say and the projections that they believe are going to be possible. 2020 is the year, the first year in which these countries must come to the table and increase the ambition, but it's also the year in which science has told us, it is the very last moment that we have to actually bend the curve of emissions which currently is still increasing, bend the curve of greenhouse gas emissions and begin the radical descent that we must follow in order to stay safely under two degrees. so, we have heard today from yohan, that this exponential

transformation is necessary. we have seen that at least in some sectors, it is already exponential, and we have just heard from yohan that it is achievable. the moment has come to move from knowing that it is achievable to actually achieving it. and that is what we're gathered here to do over these two days. you have been invited to a summit. it is a summit. but it is not only a summit. this is actually an invitation for all of you to join the jurourney of exponential succes. how can you contribute to the next up-tick and how can you reach out to everyone else, to peers, to colleagues, to supply chain, to encourage them to change their mindset from linear to exponential. because the world, the future of the world is one that we must co-create based on radical

collaboration amongst all of us. because the consequences of either doing so or not doing so are not just for us, they are for everyone. thank you. [applause]. >> thank you. [applaus [applause] >> as host mayor of the 2015 paris agreement she helped bring together leaders from cities, states, business, and civil society to strengthen that historic deal. today she represents not only her own city of paris, but a coalition of 96 cities that are home to 700 million people and one fourth of the global economy. please welcome mayor ann

hidalgo. ♪ >> let me tell you a story, a story of a citizen, a mother of three, and mayor of one of the biggest cities in the world who recently brought before the european court to defend the right to have fellow citizens to breathe. it all starts in 2015 with the case of fraud that led to europe and commission to revi review, to give a sort of license to pollute. the origin of this case, the

manipulation of presence by major car makers to pass the test of compliance to pollution standards. instead of -- europe only changed the rules. as mayor of paris fighting to ensure that my city breathes, i could not allow that. against the advice of many people, but with the support of thousands of citizens enjoined by my colleagues, a mayor and madrid, i decided to challenge the commission decision. i was then told that in order to do so i needed to be directly and personally

affected. directly and personally affected. as mayor, directly and personally, affected by air pollution. i am because as mayor it is my right to protect the citizens. i always keep in mind the mandate they gave me on behalf of parisians with the trust and defending their interests. and directly and personally affected when hospitals report to me an increasing number of children suffering from asthma. and i'm directly and personally affected when doctors challenge me on air pollution, which is

causing new cancers every year. i'm directly and personally affected when i witness that the most vulnerable ones are strongly affected by climate change, therefore increasing inequalities. i am directly and personally affected because i don't want to face my children one day when they ask me, why didn't you do anything? it is a emergenn emergency. we will not die from pollution tomorrow. we are already dying today. i don't know what the -- in europe will be, i'm waiting for the decision. i don't know if we lean towards

the truth or the lies. the future or the past. citizen or lobbyist. but i know that we mayors, friends, colleagues, governors, loc local, we are directly and personally affected. we are legitimate to ask for each the question. we are best place to defend them and to breathe. the paris agreement is an invitation to do so. our house is burning and we look elsewhere. this announcement was made by former president at the opening of the summit in 2002.

our house is burning now. it is about time to act. thank you for your attention. [applaus [applause] >> please welcome anchor and executive producer bloomberg technology, emily chang. [applaus [applause] >> hi, everyone, thanks. oh, that's better. thank you so much for being here today. we all know that mitigating climate change has to be a national priority and more often than not, the real work that we're seeing is being done from the ground up, whether it's cities or states and businesses or civil society advocating for action, implementing policies, making

big investments. so, even where national leadership may be falling short we've got champions leading the fight on the ground to fulfill the promises that were made in paris and we are here to celebrate their actions. so, i'm pleased to introduce some of those leaders right now. we've got the governor of new jersey, phil murphy, who has demonstrated the power that states can have as climate actors. he's recommitted to the regional greenhouse gas initiative and put the state on track for 100% clean energy by 2050. yeah. [applaus [applause] >> mayor of warsaw in 2006 and since that time she has championed new programs to make warsaw a green metropolis, and including poland is the host this december, i know a lot of you will be there. it is not just about state and

local governments leading the charge. they're often challenged to set even bigger goals by civil society organizations lito keep the rest of us on track. we have the executive director, a renowned expert on the intersection of climate change, gender and poverty and she also has fascinating on the ground stories that she will be sharing with us. [applause] and companies around the world are starting to understand the importance of these issues, too, and take action. so, really excited to have kevin johnson here, the ceo of starbucks. he was on the board for ten years. he's been ceo since last year and he's led, as many of you know, many so really bold commitments to social impact. including the recent announcement that starbucks will eliminate the waste and hazard of plastic straws globally by 2020. my mom, your biggest strawberry

acia drinker, but she's on board. and last but not least, we've got one of the biggest players who led in paris on above of the obama white house, brian dietze, ahead of black rock group and leads socially conscious investment and aligning that with their portfolio and values. the challenges may be different for all the of the parties, but the goal is the same and that is decarbonization.: all right. so, brian, i thought i would start with you. since you were there on the ground in paris leading, you know, an important player in leading the negotiations for the obama administration. what was your reaction to the current administration pulling out and what do you think the real impact of that has been? >> well, i think that there is

a certain physics to politics and so as inexplicable as that decision was, i think for people around the world and particularly for people who worked closely on it, what i think is equally or more notable is that that action has had an equal and opposite reaction. you've seen that by countries around the world. if you took us back to paris and you asked us where would we be two and a half years in with this sort of global compact on climate change, if you could predict the unexpected events like brexit and the election in the united states. i think you look at where we are today and you'd be quite optimistic every country, every major economy outside of the united states has not only recommitted to the paris agreement, but committed to the idea that what paris stood for is irreversible. we see the actions happening at the state and local level, and

we see that in the investing world as well. asset owners in the last 18 months from increasingly been interested in these set of issues. and you know, there's an irony, that, in fact, it took the trump administration to really bring a unifying force to the american private sector, to be in favor of climate action so i think those are -- [applause] >> it's the equal and opposite reaction that i tend to focus on. >> let's talk about the galvanizization of that. i'd like to hear from you what you think your biggest accomplishment has been since the paris agreement. >> thrilled to be here, i want to thank governor brown and the hosts of to extraordinary meeting. i succeeded a guy who was anti-climate policy and we are, obviously, in the midst, as brian has said, of an administration which is

historically bad. so new jersey's a pretty proud progressive state so we'll take, yeah, yeah, yeah. [applaus [applause] >> i have to say i had a conversation with governor brown right after i got elected to get advice and we talked about climate mostly and i said to him on the call, i wanted new jersey to be the california of the east coast, one of my new jersey buddies say we're going to succeed so much, california is going to be the jersey of the west coast. but we have a vision for 100% clean energy economy by the year 2050. a big piece of that is off shore wind. if you said to me what's one thing that i'd really love to sort of anchor with you today is we've laid out a vision for 3500 mega watts off shore by 2030, 0 of shore wind. new jersey is well-situated know the just the wind

currents, but also the plates and the depths and i'm proud to say that our board of public utilities this coming monday is going to terry the first round of solicitations for 1100 mega watts. so this is going to happen and i'm going to ask them to put in place, again, announcing today in the year 2020 and 2022, the incremental in each year's days, 1200 mega watts. another 1200 mega watts. so this is going to happen. it's not just wind, it's solar, it's community solar, a huge environmental justice program and boy, all of this creates jobs and makes us healthier and gives us better lives. >> all right. [applaus [applause] >> mayor, cities have a huge role to play here, you know. talk to us about the role that warsaw a playing and you also have something to announce today. >> i think that in the case of central europe, the future of

the period we started quite late compared to the developed world because i can say that in realistic terms we started to think and to elaborate and to face the challenge of change of climate when we became a member of the u, which is in the case of poland is 2004. and i think that the cities and the mayors, they play a very important role. i should confess that even stronger than the government and we do our job. what i mean by doing our job, i mean we change the buses. we introduced electric buses. we changed the tramways in the case of warsaw, because of this history as i mentioned already in the beginning, we started late, but very much determined and what is the most important is in our case, i think, is the

education and substance of the issue. you educated the schools, students, children, they should know what's going about, yes? [applause] >> fortunately, fortunately, another case we have education of the high level, and this is -- this was the most important in the previous system and very much highlighted so it's going not so bad, but what is also importantly different stakeholders, these are also universities, business, we have special polytechnique school and -- what is also important, we have for example, issues for climate, we have many people

come, and also, because they like picnic, yes? so you have to find a way so that people, the public, and also, and also mobility week and i'm always doing this by the media if i go by bus, if i go by train, if i go by car. so, this is the action which we undertake just to make more and more aware of the issue. and, but what is for us important about our tasks and activity in communities. i give you one quick example. for example, we have so-called participatory budgets. it means people, they get some money, they can do what they want and now they decide, this is one of the groups in one district that they would like to have more money for pollution and it was their own

decision. for us it's also important, the cooperation in the international cooperation because we are in the cities and we share our knowledge with others, of course, cities, not only cities, but we participate of course in paris, in chicago, london, lisbon. this is very helpful. [applaus [applause] >> now, winnie, you do a lot of your work in the global south where a large percentage of global emissions are projected and i'm wondering if you can share with us some of the dangerous and disastrous impacts you are seeing on the ground and talk about what we can do to act more aggressively. >> well, thanks. i'm first to thank governor brown for this invitation to join this panel on behalf of global civil society, on behalf

of my organization. you know, climate change is a political challenge, not a technical challenge. that's my starting point. why? it's an issue of justice-- thank you. it's an issue of justice and fairness. if i think about my uncle to lives in a village in uganda and is a farmer, it would take him 129 years to emit the same amount of carbon dioxide as an average american citizen emits in one year. 129 years. so the planet crisis was caused by the emissions of rich people, but it is poor people who are hit hardest. [applaus

[applause] >> and so, what excites me is really that we're seeing that in spite of that, the pendulum of climate action is swinging towards developing countries. they're not just sitting down watching, they're acting. here are some examples. the climate forum, countries, poorly developed countries, small islands, have committed to have 100% renewable energy by 2050. this is their commitment. [applause] they're holding a virtual climate summit in november. that's leadership. china and india today, their investment in renewable energies is the highest world

over and is rising fastest. that's china and india. [applause] >> south africa -- south africa is among the top ten countries that are deploying utility scale solar power. south africa. so that's leadership. and so i'm optimistic, but i also know as the scientists said here that we need to do more. it's simply not enough and that's why we are now calling for an end to the use of coal worldwide. [applaus [applause] >> yes. yes. we are saying that there shouldn't be another coal plant installed in the world today and that the existing ones should be scheduled out --

phased out as fast as possible. that's our position on coal. we've done an estimate. my last point, we've estimated that for every -- that for every dollar invested in coal in asia, that dollar will cause $10 of climate change damage in that region alone. so, what you call that? you call it economics of self-harm. we can't do that. so we're calling for the end of coal. we're excited about the momentum that has been generated because climate change is a political issue, it's an issue of people power. we need people power and that's why we're so excited by the marches. [applaus [applause] >> so, kevin, starbucks has a lot of constituencies. obviously, you've got coffee growers, you have customers who love their straws.

you've got shareholders. how do you balance where to invest your time, your energy and your money towards sustainability, given that you are a for-profit company with all of these obligations? >> well, first of all, it's a privilege to be here today and you know, as you point out what would a publicly traded company like starbucks being at a conference like this? well, certainly, as we've grown over the decades we now have nearly 29,000 starbucks stores in 78 countries, over 330,000 starbucks partners who proudly wear the green apron serving 100 million customers a week. and we are a company that in the fabric of our mission, our culture, and our values is the believe that the pursuit of profit is not in conflict with the pursuit of doing good. [applause] >> we're a company that started a journey years ago

where one of our social impact pillars is sustainability. and we're a company that has put a stake in the ground that is working to make coffee the first sustainable agricultural product in the world. we're doing that in partnership. we're doing that in partnership with the public sector and with ngo's, like conservation international, and we're working on behalf of coffee farmers around the world to make coffee as a sustainable agricultural product. we've had greener cups in our store and introduce add recyclable cup years ago, but realized that many municipalities can't afford or have the facilities to recycle all of those cups. and so earlier this year, we announced a greener cup challenge in partnership with the world wildlife foundation and the work that we're doing in partnership with closed loop partners to find new solutions,

innovative solutions that we will open source to all. we then built upon that over the years where we have built more lead stores than any other business in the world. we've woven lead criteria into our store development process and we've taken it not just opinion the-- within the united states, but around the world. you put that together, sustainability is one of our social impact agenda and we're here today to announce how we'll extend our commitment even further. >> tell us. >> well, today we're announcing in addition to the journey that we've been on, we now have launched what we call a greener store framework. in addition to building stores with lead criteria and lead certification, we're now extending it to how we operate those stores. things that really focus on renewable energy that's used in our stores, you know, water

stewardship, the things that we're doing to better manage and reduce waste and it's aldrin with the aspiration to be the number one company in the world with the sustainable platform from origin, working with farmers, the entire supply chain, to the stores and the actual end product that we deliver and so we're very excited about the opportunity that brings. >> all right. [applaus [applause] >> brian, as kevin said, making money shouldn't be at odds with, you know, creating a better planet for us and future generations. that said, do investors really value sustainability and do you believe that it actually is a competitive advantage? can you make more money by investing sustainbly or investing in sustainable efforts or are those two things at odds? >> so at black rock, we're an asset manager, which means our

mission, our purpose is to protect and grow the value of our clients assets, most of which are invested for a long-term and most of which are invested for long-term goals like retirement. and so, our goal in that context is to look forward at risks and opportunities and be better at anticipating those on behalf of our clients. and in that context, you know, the first point i would make, consistent with what kevin said is that sustainable investing is no longer a nice to do. it's no longer an exercise in trading value for value, and it's increasingly becoming core to that mission of providing a better future for-- the clients that we serve. i think that when we talk about climate change in particular, i think that in some-- in too many parts of the investing world there has been this view that the risks of

climate are real, but too long-term, too hard to measure, they're too uncertain to really build into an investment strategy and i think that, you know, the second point that i would make is that the facts and the data have well made that view obsolete. and so, i think that the opportunity and the responsibility on all of us in the investing community is to up our game and to get better at understanding those risks, measuring those risks, pricing those risks and then using them to deliver better outcomes. and at black rock, we're committed to doing our part on that front. so, we're doing a number of things, first, we engage directly with companies that have the most material and risk associated with climate change and we expect them to both disclose those risks and to have a plan, to address those. and we sent letters to 120 of those companies this year to ask them that the task force

and climate related disclosure put out a frame work. what are they doing to put that in practice in their own companies. the second we can build in the cutting edge, physical risk data about climate change into our own investment processes and we believe that the data and the science has accelerated to a point that we can provide a much clearer picture, not just the city and street level, but down to the individual structure level of what those risks are and connect those back to the assets that we own and the securities that we own. that makes us better investment, but has the impact of driving change throughout the investing and the insurance system to more effectively price those risks, and third, you know, from an investment perspective, climate change is not just about risks. it's also about opportunity. you know, you listen to what kevin is doing. kevin is finding commercial opportunities to try to

reinforce the starbucks purpose by putting his money where his mouth is and your company's money where your mouth is. and so we believe we can more effectively deliver for investments a holistic view of our company's ready for this low carbon transition? are they prepared to capture the opportunities as well as mitigate the risk and align with companies that are more prepared for the low carbon emission. they can do well by doing good. and the last thing that i would-- you know, the last thing that i would say is that, ultimately as an investor, the other big opportunity that we can't ignore is that capital needs to transition the world's infrastructure to a low carbon world. that the energy infrastructure and the transportation infrastructure globally need to transition.

and we at black rock, we've invested, 5 billion into renewable wind and solar assets and we're committed to seeing the challenge of the capital that needs to flow. not just into wind and solar, but into the global low carbon infrastructure transition and seeing that challenge as an opportunity and stepping into that challenge and saying, how can we allow, give investors the opportunities to invest in that transition in a way that will generate returns and deploy capital into frontier economies and frontier technology and we're ready to step up and do that. [applaus [applause]. >> governor murphy, we've got a hurricane, another hurricane barrelling towards the east coast and took new jersey a long time to recover from hurricane sandy and there's a belief that climate change made the hurricane more powerful. there were big economic losses there. how do you see the clean energy economy that you are trying to build contributing to economic

growth? this idea of doing well by doing good. >> by the way, this is a fascinating discussion and i think one reaction i'm having up here is that the likes of all of us will have never mattered more, whether you're a governor in my case, a mayor, running one of the world's premier ngo's, a for-profit ceo, an investor, given what the hand we've been dealt, we will have never mattered more. i think a hundred years from now, folks will look back and say the folks like the group gathered today, we changed history and that that's the reason why we've gathered here today. and one of the -- there's a lot of myth busting. you've got both in the corporate side and the investment side this question, you can do good or do well. that's also a reality in politics, that if you're for climate change, you must be against economic growth. and that's a myth that we must be vigilant in completely

shattering, because, in fact, it's a one plus one equals three opportunity. i mentioned in passing, this is a huge job creator. union jobs more often than not. you think through that off shore wind historic opportunity we had, that's thousands of jobs. that's direct input into our economic growth. you look at-- we were having some much us a discussion earlier today, look at the health disparaitiedispar winnie made the point the poorest among us pay the biggest price. if you look at rates of asthma in kids in newark and elizabeth, new jersey, who have proximity to the big ports and trucks going out. and you look at the multiples elsewhere in our state or our country and you can imagine a better future where you get that back into line. you have an enormous benefit not just to those individuals, but to society more generally,

or to disparities in life expectancy, which are shockingly wide, depending on the communities in which you live. again, if we could get at that collectively, that's a huge contributing, not just to society and those individuals, but to economic growth. so, this is, it's jobs, better health outcomes, it's a better quality of life and this notion that you can either do good or do well, but you can't do both, we have to collectively commit that we're going to shatter that once and more all. [applaus [applause]. >> now, clearly, this is something that we're all going to do together, whether it's the investment communities or the government or cities or civil society or corporations. so what is the one thing you will do -- and i'll have our last panelists answers that question, how do you see

working with other organizations, with other constituencies to get to this end goal that we all believe in? >> i think that in the case of warsaw citizens, more educated than it was before. so they push us. they wanted to have everything -- but we don't have money to do everything at the same moment. so, we do different things, which are the most important, and of course, they're also talking about the eu, with the eu funds, because eu offers the funds mainly for the environment, which is, i think, very positive and very important. so, for example, we have probably one of the most modern waste water treatment plants, which was very costly because it was about one million dollars and this was sponsored by the eu. so if you come one day to us so i can show you, the modern and

the newest, and the standards have to be -- with incinerator, which uses the energy from the waste. so, it's important for the environment. so we try to go to, as i said, combine and to gather together business and also we would like also to make an energy efficient city, municipal housing. we now adopted the standards. at first it's easy for the municipal because we don't have enforce, as a city we don't have-- government can't do it, enforce the private venture areas which is not our own. i think what is also very important to preserve the green spaces and also, we have about

30% is green. so we are lucky from this point of view. when you -- for one of the most except for the northern countries, one of the most green capital cities in this part of europe and so it's very important, we have, of course, the river and the other side of the river, the right side, on the left side you have different things which you c can-- different kinds of facilities. it's, i would say modernized and green on the other side of the river, biking whatever you want to do. and they said how much money do you spend to keep it and we're lucky we didn't change it, so it's very much.

so, i think this is the way how we try to do and of course, it's very important in our case, in the beginning is that transportation, the transportation is cheaper year after year, which is not the case in many countries because we invested a lot. but now, we reduce the price of the tickets and it's the same we do our water supply. i just wrote a letter and sent to the citizens that they can-- they will pay now 14% less than last years. this is how the way we manage. >> we're out of time. winnie and kevin, i want to give you the last word. please keep it brief. how do you see collaborating with other constituencies to have the greatest impact? what do you see as the greatest opportunity to collaborate and also have a great impact? >> i think the most important

thing to do for us in civil society definitely is to challenge the economic model that has resulted in climate change because climate change --. [applause] >> yeah, it's one symptom of a broken economy. extreme inequality is another symptom of a broken economy. we have an economy that does not-- that obscures the cost of economic activity to the environment. and this, this same economy also hides the contributions of ordinary people, particularly women, of caring for children, caring for people, caring for the sick. that is also not counted in the economy and we have an economy then that counts narrowly

economic activity. leaves out the most important things like looking after environment, looking after people. i could say-- if i were to put it bluntly, that this economy trashes, trashes the environment and trashes people, ordinary people, especially women. [applause] >> so for us, the most important thing will be to work with business people to look for alternative models that share value with ordinary people that rely less on fossil fuel. it will be to work with governments and cities, to look for ways to support ordinary poor, vulnerable people, to adapt to climate change. it will be about going on the streets and demonstrating people power so that politicians can organize our economies differently. so, i hope you'll join us on

resident street where -- [applause] >> we also turn out t-shirts and go to that house. you know the one i mean. [laughter] >> kevin, there's a challenge. how does starbucks rise to it and how should other companies? >> i'll just build on winnie's comments. look, if you look at this problem on a global basis, it can be so overwhelming that it can become discouraging. if you look at this problem through your silo, you could say, you know, what can i do? the only way to look at this problem in my opinion is say, am i partnering with other like-minded public sector ngo's and businesses to make progress. and momentum will build momentum and optimism is force multiplier. the work we do in partnership with ngo's, with public sector, with other businesses to, you know, around sustainability is

the only way that i think we can solve this problem. >> all right. [applaus [applause]. >> well said. >> thank you to the work all of you are doing and for being here and sharing your thoughts today. thank you. [applause] ♪ >> please welcome ig professor of economics at the london school of economics. lord nicholas stern. [applaus [applause] >> thank you. my argument is simple. the transition to the zero carbon economy is inclusive growth story of the 21st

century. let me explain. the world economy must grow over the next 15 to 20 years in order to overcome poverty. to avoid dangerous climate change, that means implementing the paris agreement and emissions must peak as soon as possible and cut by at least, at least 30% in the next 15 years, otherwise we risk halting and reversing economic development and forcing hundreds of millions of people to move. ... because infrastructure will double in the next 15 years and the world economy will double in the next 20. we must not locked in old and dirty technologies.

the good news as well laid out in a new report of new climate economy is that the transition to the zero emissions economy is a growth story of this century. this is a still stronger statement then the case made in the stern review in 2006 that the cost of inaction exceed the cost of action. we can now see a bigger story, one of innovation, discovery, investment and growth. and it's a much more attractive form of growth cities will we could move and breathe and ecosystems that are robust and fruitful. the report sets out what we must do in five key sectors. clean energy, smarter urban development, sustainable land use, wise water management, and the secular and resource

efficient economy. and it sets out the policies that can deliver both growth and the necessary emissions reductions. first, price carbon and mandates carbon disclosure. second, accelerate investment in sustainable infrastructure. third, foster private-sector innovation, and fourth, ensure a just transition with people at the center. the benefits are many as the graphic behind me shows, including not only stronger growth but also 65 million jobs by 2030. that's what inclusive means are one of the things inclusive needs. but delay is very dangerous. the new growth story is in their hands. now is the time to decide, to act, and the time for leadership. but to get global results we know that action has to happen from the ground up. that's the story at the summit,

and to look at this in more detail please welcome director of data driven yale, doctor angel hsu. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ >> it's not just national governments that are clamoring for this kind of future. nonstate actors, cities, states and regions and companies are setting their sights just as high and often even higher. many cities and countries that pledged to limit their admissions to support the goals of the paris agreement. add it all together, our latest findings show that these thousands of cities, state and region and company pledges are leading to measurable in emissin reductions in the order of 1.5-2.2 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent over national government policies in 2030. 2030. this is roughly equivalent to

double canada's yearly total emissions but they can't deliver on the paris goals alone. we need everyone working together from cities, states and regions and companies alongside countries. reaching the full potential is possible if all of these actors achieve their ambitious reduction goals across all sectors. global emissions could fall by one-third in 2030 putting the paris agreement calls closer within reach. particularly in the land use and the not energy sectors there is so much untapped potential that we could harness. so the next step is to scale up our commitments and elvis the full support of national governments. everyone of us has a plate to make these commitments on reality. thank you. [applause] ♪

>> well, as you juicer climate change presents not only a threat but an opportunity to invigorate our societies and economies at a global scale. as we've seen proof of the critical role that states and regions and cities and businesses and investors in citizens will all play in the push for a climate safe future. now in the next segment we're going to hear about some of the areas where progress is being made, and to kick us off let's hear from a special guest. now this guest is a hero on the silver screen and also hero in the fight against climate change. >> in budapest, the reason for this is very simple because you are heroes, environmental heroes. the legislature number one in

california for passing s.b. 100. the governor of california jerry brown for signing s.b. 100. and all you are heroes because you're fighting for clean environment, for clean world, a green world. i love that. i'm doing a science-fiction movie that's why can't be with you and this terminator six, but what you would and is not science fiction. i only play hero here but you are the true action heroes. hasta la vista, baby. [applause] >> and our thanks to arnold schwarzenegger. there are lots of ways to be hero in the fight against climate change and one of the big ones is driving the transition away from fossil fuel. cole has power the world but now there are cleaner and healthier fuels to provide energy for the country and for the world. here's a case in point, an interesting case in point. last year the kentucky coal

mining museum did something unexpected. it switched to solar power, not for political recent but to save money. so if we take the right steps now we will hear many more stories like this in the years to come. the powering task hope alliance is working to ensure that we do him any more of these good news stories. the alliance represents over 50 countries, regions and businesses working to move us all be on fossil fuels for good. now it's my pleasure to introduce some of the people who are working to power past poll. shane rattenbury, from the australia capital territory. catherine mckenna, the canadian minister of environment and climate change. and the uk special representative for climate change, nick bridges. [applause] ♪

>> good morning ladies and gentlemen. around the world we burn over 5 billion tons of coal every year. for every ton of coal we weren't released over 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide which gets trapped in our atmosphere warming the planet. burning coal releases hazardous pollutants and toxic chemicals that cause asthma and cardiovascular disease. cold causes over 800,000 premature deaths worldwide every year. recognizing these impacts the powering haskell allies was created a vision away forward beyond coal. industrial in capital territory where i am the minister for climate change and sustainability we are providing an example of moving beyond

coal. we are on track to receive achieve 100% renewable electricity by 2020 and just 18 months time. we are proof positive the switch to renewables can happen now. thank you. [applause] >> today i am pleased to announce the australian capital territory along with nine other additional jurisdictions are joining the powering haskell of lines. i would like to particularly acknowledge candidate and united kingdom for the development of this alliance to replace, the mission is to replace coal. in partnership with bloomberg philanthropies we are developing case studies and best practice to guide the transition and would bring together governments, businesses and other partners to help organizations accelerate this change. today i'm excited to announce the new members of our

coalition, wales, connecticut, hawaii, new york state, minnesota, the balearic islands, and the cities of rotterdam, honolulu in los angeles. give them all a big round of applause. [applause] >> as we work together to end our lights on coal power we can reduce carbon emissions, improve public health and create jobs all at the same time. in many parts of the world including australia it is now cheaper to build a new solar farm than its that a new coal power plant. we can proceed his activities and crate create a more vibrand sustainable economy. and now let's take a look at how we are going to do it. >> renewable energy is cost

competitive to call. so that really no longer any reason to be using coal. we want to submit that project retorts of renewable future making sure that the rate of coal plant closures increases between now and 2030. tourism is a huge industry in washington. the initial focus was on visibility and s '02. because one of the main attractions people going to mount rainer isn't want want to be able to see the mountain. >> to get way to shut down a plant that's key to the power grid between seattle and portland. the community interest set weight of it, that's my job. >> all the tax base that build our infrastructure in the last 40 years because this plant has been very significant. >> we said to the company we will let you sell your call product as long as you agree.

>> 2020 they will be solar effective in 2025 other workers are affected spirit would support a buildup bypass for the committee to get ready for the potential shutdown of the power plant. >> they agree to provide $85 million in transition funds in three categories, energy efficiency, committee and economic development, and clean energy technologies. >> it really can't be a win-win to reduce these large air pollution sources. we are economic development in reducing air pollution and we're getting healthier. >> for communities anywhere in the world facing a coal plant closure, it's worth the effort to invest in the communication and the dialogue. >> because it comes down to environment, labor, business opportunity combined help the business get to clean, help the community stay home and then get it done. -- stay whole.

[applause] >> and now the president of afl-cio, richard trumka. ♪ >> good morning. i want to thank you to governor brown for inviting me to say a few words on the half of that

12.5 million working men and women who belong to the 55 unions of the afl-cio. i a coal miner by trade, actually a third-generation coal miner by trade. now, that might seem unusual at a summit like this, but i learned something about science. when the boss told us to ignore the deadly hazards of the job, of that sagging timber overhead, that black lung calls, science told us the truth. and today, again, science tells us the truth, that climate change threatens our workers, our jobs and our economy. and that's why the labor movement support bold, comprehensive action to fight climate change. and that's why we support --

[applause] that's what we support continued progress on vehicle tailpipe standards, and why we passed the strong climate resolution at our last convention. and that's why we continue to support the paris agreement. so make no mistake, this is a tough issue for us. but in the labor movement we are used to tough issues and hard choices. we are prepared to do the right thing for our people and her planet, and we know that this might can and must be about investing -- fight -- better, more inclusive, more just future and about creating good jobs and good lives for working families. so i ask each one of you, does

your plan for fighting climate change ask more from a sick, retired coal miner that it does room you or your family? if it does, then you need to think again. climate strategies that lead coal miners pension funds bankrupt and power plant workers unemployed, construction workers making less than they do now, plans the devastate communities today while offering vague community promises about the future, they are more than unjust. they fundamentally undermine the power of the political coalition needed to address the climate crisis. [applause]

our enemies use these plans to divide us. they point to them to feed the politics of division and fear that threatens our entire democracy. and i understand that many are frustrated with the pace of action on climate change, but simply demanding that plants, industries and projects be stopped or shutdown with no plan for the people who are put out of work, no call for shared sacrifice, and no dialogue for solidarity with those whose lives and communities are dependent on carbon-based fuel, that poisons the political well. and slows meaningful action on climate change. it's not good enough to simply

call for an end to carbon emissions. we have a responsibility to think thoughtfully and strategically about how to actually make that change. and as a labor movement we are ready to move faster. so what does that require? well, it requires people like you and people like me sitting down to figure out how we fund and invest in technology and workers and communities that can build a sustainable economy of broadly shared prosperity. [applause] california is showing us the way. under governor brown's leadership, unions and employers and government have come together to fight climate change

and create good jobs by attaching labor standards to climate policy. in the san joaquin valley alone right here in california, oil country, there have been over 4000 megawatts worth of new clean energy projects in the last two decades. 15 million job hours of union work, at union wages with union benefits made possible. and new paid sick leave and workers compensation laws combined with strong collective-bargaining agreements help keep our members healthy and safe in the entire process. see, that's what it looks like when we partner to fight against climate change and for good jobs. this is a remarkable time for

collective action. teachers from west virginia to arizona, workers in transportation, journalism, energy and more are really coming together for a voice on the job. the popularity of unions recently hit a 15 year high and were just getting started. we could bring that energy and that momentum to the fight against climate change. i say let's join together. let's get the job done, and let's do it the right way. thank you very much. [applause] ♪

>> the fire not only did impact peoples lives, it impacted the entire environment around us. it illustrated what can happen very quickly to an entire community, and that is an experience that we just don't want to see going on around the country and around the world. >> climate change is here. it's happening. it's real. all we have to do is look around at the weather phenomenon. we are constantly setting records across the globe, hottest days, hottest years, hottest average temperatures. >> it's impacting all of us. >> it's hard to imagine. it deepens poverty. threatens our food and water supply. it tears people from their homes. it makes large parts of the world uninhabitable. if you care about climate change you have to care about health.

if you care about health you have to care about climate change. >> as the pediatrician my job is not only to take care of the children that i've seen in my practice but also to advocate for a healthy environment for the children i am taking care of. >> health effects of climate change disproportionally affect children, people of color, people living in poverty, the elderly, people living with chronic disease. as climate change worsens, the health outcomes caused by climate change in these populations will worsen as well. >> there's been a coalition of hospital systems all around the world working to address the environmental footprint, especially the climate footprint of health care so that the mission of healthcare is expanding to go beyond treating individual patients to supporting healthcare communities and a healthier planet. >> this is where we have the real opportunity of creating public-private partnerships, and it's that synergy that will help us to really get at this problem

and work on it together towards resolutions. >> i truly believe is our policymakers and the public were able to understand better the climate change is an urgent human health issue, we would be able to get to where we need to be. >> when you to take steps because this is impacting all of our health. not everybody cares about energy, not everybody cares about climate change but everybody cares about health. it's personal. >> climate change is fundamentally a global health issue. >> it's about health. >> it's all about health. >> it's about health and we have the power to change the dynamic to change health on behalf of all people. [applause] >> please welcome chairman and ceo kaiser permanente bernard

tyson ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hello. it's an honor and a privilege to be here and spend a few minutes with you. i would like to start missing on behalf of kaiser permanente what a privilege it is to be a part of working with many others to solve something in this world. also want to say to our guests who are not from the bay area, whether you're from outside california or outside of the united states, while you're in san francisco hopefully you will not need it, but should something happen, you are welcome at kaiser permanente. [laughing] so we are very clear as an organization that there's an intersection between the

environment and total health. kaiser permanente is very much focused on what we call total health, mind, this -- the mind, the body and the spirit. we also there are circumstances that affects a person self, how you eat, how you sleep, how you manage stress. those are some examples. we also are aware how the environment directly affects a persons health. and that is the intersection in which kaiser permanente is involved. we believe that we can make a difference in the climate. we believe that we can help others to deal with the effects of the climate changes that are going on. we know from our work, we know from the studies, we know from the heat maps that when these

natural disasters happen, it affects the health of individuals. it affects the mental health. it affects the breathing. it affects the lungs. it affects the heart of the body. we are committed to being a part of the solution. earlier this week we announced that we now have put additional agreements in place to achieve our commitment of being carbon neutral by the end of 2020. [applause] it was recommended that it wait until today to make that announcement, but i was too excited so we did that on monday so i had to repeat it to you. each and every one of us can make a difference. kaiser permanente is demonstrating that.

we have over 75 million square feet of space around the united states, in which we provide care and coverage and total health. so it is possible and we are on our way with our windfarms in with our solar and with our battery systems. we believe that we can achieve this. we are already about 30% towards that carbon neutrality goal. so we are committed and were privileged to be here and to be a part of this. and when i first started to really get engage with this and had the opportunity to go to paris and be a part of that, in one of the panels i made a statement. i said i'm very new at this, and i am very new at this. and later on i will be more sophisticated about it, and i'm a little more sophisticated given the wonderful team of experts that were kept kaiser permanente in educating as every

single day. but it ended by saying, just the idea of doing something to make the earth better is just a really good place to be. so i'm down with mother earth. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ >> at salesforce would leave it business as a platform for change. that's why we built clean carbon neutral cloud, operate as a net zero company, and will reach 100% renewable energy by 2022. so when it came time to build a new headquarters, we went big. really big. but in terms of the salesforce tower, it's tiny. it's on track to be double lead

platinum certified, and sources 100% renewable energy. it outperform stated energy guidelines by more than 20%. it will feature the largest black water system of its kind north america saving 30,000 gallons of water a day, and the salesforce ohana working seita, their spending thousands of hours volunteering in the private each year. because the business of business is to make the world a better place. [applause] >> and now chairman and ceo of salesforce, marc benioff. ♪ >> wow, it's great to be here. welcome to san francisco, everybody. good morning. is anybody having a a good tim? amazing day. well, good morning to everybody and to governor brown, vice

president gore, to all of our cochairs, the u.n. foundation delegates, friends around the world. as a native san franciscan i'm thrilled to join mayor breed and the people of our community in welcoming here to our incredible home temper i hope you are having a good time. [applause] all of us in san francisco, all of us at salesforce, my wife and i can we are deeply honored, we are deeply honored to be a partner in this historic gathering. and we are here today because climate change, climate change threatens to impact every continent, every coach, every community at a human being. we are here because the worst effects of climate change will be interred by the poorest and most vulnerable among us. this is a matter of a quality injustice. and we are here because even with the a stork commitments that were made in paris, the basic commitments are made in paris, even with the new commitment to the summit, and it

is a great summit, it is not enough. we're still not on track to meet these targets. and soon the impacts of climate can be irreversible. this is a make or break moment. that is why we are here and that is why we all have to do much, much more. it's up to our generation to act and to act now. the threat it's so big and so multidimensional company cannot be solved by anyone, any person, any government, any scientific community, in the business, any citizen alone. all of us must work together. we had to create this and do this in a multi-stakeholder way. we have to continue multi-stakeholder dialogues just like this. we have to turn into multi-stakeholder action and when you do all come together in one grand coalition. this is critical for our future. with the tremendous resources at our disposal i truly believe

that the business, that the businesses, companies like mine can be one of the greatest platforms for change. including in this incredible fight against climate change. now, as a ceo of a tech company i'm very excited and i will tell you why. i'm excited because we have an extraordinary opportunity to harness the amazing technologies of this revolution that surrounds us. big data artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, incredible advances in the biosciences like crispr and others, and use them for good in the fight for a healthier planet. and here today i want to challenge people like me, ceos, people like bernard who would your desk adjuster trumpet and the united states and around the world, to recognize the business to business is not simply making money. the business of business is improving the state of the

world. the business of business is to make the world a better place, and i challenge ceos to see that taking action on climate change is a competitive advantage. because today's customers, our investors at our employees, all of our stakeholders and especially our millennial employees, and want to associate with companies that take the lead on sustainability. and the spirit of innovation. the spirit of innovation that is transferred our world and is transforming our world with this revolution. it must also be harnessed now to save our planet. these technologies have been given to us as a gift, i we need to harness these technologies to accomplish our goals. but each and everyone of us has to step up much, much further. and every ceo, , every ceo has o step up. and many, many times there's an opportunity right in our own

backyard. living here in california, living here in san francisco i can tell you i'm so passionate about our environment but also on the ocean. i can see the incredible changes that are happening in our oceans. the health of our oceans and the health of our societies as all of us know are deeply linked. but today our oceans and society are threatened by overfishing, pollution, climate change, acidification, coral bleaching. yet just look what's possible when we bring all of our stakeholders together. you look at the world economic forum in geneva switzerland the friends of ocean action, a network of sciences, entrepreneurs, researchers, businesses, advocates have come together and help the g7 prioritize ocean for the very first time in this year's june summit, or the ocean research center at the university of california right here in santa barbara bringing together the

brightest minds in in the basic subsequent incredible new solutions to these problems. a look at what just happened in san francisco this weekend. look at the ocean clean up all the way from amsterdam which last launched its first system in san francisco to clear all that plastic and great pacific garbage dump. this is what's exciting, incredible people, incredible technology, entrepreneurs taking risks, going to the next level, looking for new ideas come into concepts and notions, new innovations. it's all around us. look at the new research expedition in northwest hawaii that we are are in partnership with my good friend to hear from brian, our center which could help us better understand and protect our oceans. one look at what just happened the last two days at salesforce we did the ocean hack what we brought in incredible technologist and entrepreneurs, venture capitalist and businesses and government who are looking for new ways to heal the ocean. this is a progress is possible

when would bring all of our stakeholders together, all of our stakeholders and especially ceos. just as every ceo has to step up, every organization and company has to step up as well. now, you all know and i know we need to see a broad decarbonization of our economy sector by sector. this is critical for our future. i'm excited to announce today that salesforce is partnering with mission 2020 to create an alliance of 21 major technology companies just like us that are going to be carbonized and able harness the power to reduce emissions across all of our economic sectors. we are calling it the step of a declaration. the step up declaration because we are stepping up with the tangible commitments to reach a climate turning point by 2020 and we want all of you, we want

every company to join us. let me be specific. salesforce tower is not far from you. you probably all solid on the way from airport. it's powered by 100% renewable energy. it is what is most sustainable buildings in the world. it is supposed be an example of what is possible in the future using all these new technologies. in fact, all of our offices established after 2020 will meet the highest standards for efficiency and we need every company to fully embrace all of these green building practices. salesforce operates today as a net zero company. today we operate with net zero greenhouse gas emissions delivering a clean carbon neutral cloud for all of our customers worldwide. and we need every company and our interest industry and cloud computing to emit now to having net zero clouds. just as we committed --

[applause] just as we have committed to being 100% renewable by 2022, we 22, we need every company to go with us to be 100% renewable. and we can do it. it's all right in front of us. it's easy and straightforward and all we have to do is decide now is the time. today salesforce is also announcing we will establish new sites based targets reduce our emissions even further. and we will encourage our suppliers and our partners to do the same. because every business has an opportunity to not only do this themselves but to motivate, but to motivate across their entire supply chain. every company can motivate across the entire ecosystem. we all have that leverage. you have seen us use that leverage when we went to indiana and we use economic might to change the laws weather was discussed michigan's the lgbtq community. we can use that same power to change those laws in favor of

this new incredible world that we are all seeking. finally, every employee has to step up. at salesforce we've always embraced our 111 model, building 1% of equity, 1% of our time, 1% of our product to nonprofits and communities. many of the ngos and nonprofits you are here including some of the great ones that we all know like sierra club, , amazing, or greenpeace, they use salesforce to run their operations. and that is a meaningful to us because for over 20 years with given hundreds of millions of dollars to nonprofits and ngos as part of our charter. we provide a technology for freedom to over 30,000 nonprofits and ngos. and because every salesforce employee gets seven paid days off for you to volunteer, our employees also have given more than 3 million hours to worthy causes including an dominantly

by earth force kosovar employees give their time and their energy and their technology capabilities to fight climate change every single day. now, i share this because every company can join or pledge 1% movement and unleash the power within them to help create this climate change. how are we going to do that? we are going to get all of our employees focused on healing our planet. every company can give their employees paid time off to volunteer and every company can have an earth force, and every company can have employees to give their time to help the environment. some businesses can truly step up. that's how we can rise to this moment. this is how we can spark this change of transformation. this is how we can be carbonized the entire global economy, and that's how is part of the grand coalition we cannot only take action ourselves. we can aspire all nations to act

as well. so on behalf of everyone at salesforce we are excited to be your partner. we are excited and inspired by the difference we can make together to build a world that is cleaner and healthier for generations to come. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to san francisco. thank you, governor brown with this amazing summit, and let's have an amazing event. thank you so much. [applause] ♪ >> well, we've heard from remarkable innovators in business and industry. these are people were pushing the limits in every field of healthcare to the workplace to the marketplace. by the way come downstairs you'll find even more examples of this kind of exciting innovative progress in the climate innovation showcase. again that's downstairs. but the private sector doesn't

have a monopoly on innovation. all around the world we're seeing governments step up to provide solutions and to push forward bold ideas on climate. let's hear now from some of those leaders. ♪ >> and now please join in welcoming the prime minister of fiji, frank bainimarama. in. [applause] ♪ >> good morning to you all your excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, i would like to speak today to the national and regional leaders in the room and around the world. we all know that the levels of commission and our national plans need to be wrapped up because we're not on track to

meet the targets of the paris agreement. that's why this year, it's so important. they are held around the world, producing thousands of good ideas in the tort of that valuable information that can put us back on track. yesterday we had a very productive seminar here in san francisco with representatives of regional government, business and civil society, truly a microcosm of the grand coalition here we are harnessing on the global level. as you probably heard it's the pacific where sharing stories but it's not just talk. it's storytelling for a purpose, and the stories we've heard in yesterdays panel and the scores of others have taken place around the world are just talk. they are tools. tools that can be used by

political leaders to increase climate action at the national level. the stories of what is happening in cities, in board rooms, and places of worship, in schools and in local communities provide political leaders with the arsenal we need to increase ambition. these store speak of the urgency for action but also show us a wealth of possibility offered by new innovations and solutions. one of the simple and ironic truths about climate change is that the more want everything to stay the same, the more we are going to have to change. loss of land, degradation of our oceans, certain effects of warming, extreme weather and other effects of warming will rob us of community, so there's no hiding from the consequences but there are ways to help shape

our own destiny. we need to help people embrace the hope. so my fellow leaders, i can only say this. we were elected to lead, not to pander. not to follow. and certainly not to hold up a wet finger to the wind. so let's leap. let's marshal our forces and moved to the front. because as we say in the military, you cannot lead from the rear. ask yourself if i could solve this climate crisis knowing it will cost my a political caree, which i do it. it's why i'm concerned there is only one continent. thank you. [applause] >> now coming to the stage, ministry for the environment the

netherlands, stientje van veldhoven, and president and ceo board of rotterdam authority allard castelein. [applause] ♪ >> good morning. it's really wonderful to be here and i'm happy to share the stage with the port of rotterdam authority. our new action program reflects the ambition of the netherlands. we brought paris home into the heart of our national policy. but also into the hearts of businesses, cities and other nonstate partners. together we have the ambition to reduce by 50% of greenhouse gases in 2030. 2030. and this is a huge challenge, and that means that we are transitioning in our entire economy. we're invading our industry.

we are reforming our energy supply, closing down our coal-fired power plants before 2030. we're building the world's biggest offshore wind farm, and all new to zero emission from 2030. and when we talk about all this, there is still one point missing. this world is going to 10 billion people, and those 10 million people will be using a lot of resources. so when you want to tackle climate change we need to look beyond the energy question and address resources. and that is why the netherlands is committing to having our resources used by 2030. 2030. we want to be a completely -- by 2050. 2050. i know waste economy. [applause] -- a know waste economy that reuses raw materials, making new

concrete from old concrete, new plastics from old plastics. this is an action summit because we need to deliver. and the netherlands is very much committed to do so. one year ago we committed on port and that's one very happy to be a today with allard castelein he will tell you what the port of rotterdam is committed to do. thank you so much. [applause] >> minister, ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. the port and a short period his account for more than 20% of the total dutch emissions. hence, the port of rotterdam is to support our government activities by investing in energy efficiency, carbon capture picture ports are an essential infrastructure in order to efficiently move products, raw materials, goods around the world to and from

countries. together the shipping industry imports are accountable for significant amount of greenhouse gases. you could compare total emissions to the emission profile of a country like germany. so the port of rotterdam has decided to take action, and i'm very pleased today to announce the launch of the global port climate action program where we have reached out to other leading ports around the world to collaborate, to create a coalition of the willing, to address climate change issues and to harmonize the maritime sector. and i'm pleased to confirm that the ports of l.a., vancouver, hamburg, antwerp, barcelona have joined so far. [applause] >> we will focus our efforts on

increasing the efficiency of the supply chain by using data technology. we will increase the uptake of renewable sure to power, sure to ship facilities. we will enable further development of the carbonized maritime fuels. we want to the carbonized all important cargo handling facilities who wish to collaborate with the legislators and legislator to come up with order original appropriation aspiration policies and regulations and legislation. we are reaching out to of the ports to join our efforts. we believe that by addressing and calling upon the shipping industry and ports to join us we can truly make a difference and make it happen. thank you very much. [applause]

>> please welcome the european commissioner for climate action in energy, minister miguel arias canete. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> your excellencies, testing which guests, ladies and gentlemen, this summit some have taken ambition to next level. how can we do this? i would like have three building blocks. the first is commitment. maintaining and stepping up our efforts. the european union is a deeply committed to the paris agreement. we have transition to a low carbon climate future and we are delivering. we have complete our -- and support mechanisms to meet our paris pledge. 40% by 2030 and bring clean energy to our citizens. and put in place it is working. european union has a good track

record in the carbon emissions economic growth. we are also deeply committed to helping others make the transition, especially the most vulnerable to the european union will continue to show leadership and we will step up international cooperation and support for worldwide. that brings me to my second point, cooperation to we have to meet the global challenges together. i'm very pleased to announce today that governor brett and i have agreed to enhance our global markets to contribute to put in paris goals. i am convinced that the liberty for california and european union have helped opportunity and additions in these key areas before going to step up our cap-and-trade programs to bring our market closer. last year we committed to hold regular dialogue on the implementation of our carbon markets. with agreed to enhance this on

key topics including on investment, technologies, reduction in revenues. we've also work with others, national levels to develop, implement and -- cap-and-trade system. last year a major player china has joined the carbon market community. it's a signal that the economy a decisive china just establish -- [inaudible] let's pursue that momentum of various channels bilaterally. the third ingredient for taking and patient next level is a clear vision of the future. for long for a long time the con of our economies. the european union wants to take the lead on these so right now we are developing a long-term strategy for reducing emissions. we promised to send proposal is a strategy report this you prefer the united nations climate summit in political be a strategy of economic and security -- to bring our carbon footprint 20 by 2050.

to make our economy more competitive, more resilient and more modern to show a complete example of how the goals of the paris agreement can be achieved together social and economic development. we hope our action can help is by others to their own long-term plans for doing their fair share. this summit shows the power and potential of resume working together. we can only become president climate challenge and reap the rewards by moving forward together. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ >> good morning. thank you, linda douglass, for your kind introduction. thank you for your tremendous leadership as as a representate of our country and media and in

the world. it's an honor to be here with so many of you this morning, to join in welcoming so many global leaders to our city of san francisco and to our golden state of california. we are proud of our tradition of being hotbed of bipartisan environmental fervor, a place where john beer established the sierra club in 1892 and was another bay area leader, david brower who established the league of conservation voters. for us, combating local warming is not an issue. it is an ethic, a value and it is imperative that we act upon that value. [applause] >> for this reason when i was speaker the pride of addressing global warming and energy independence was my flagship issue. based on our values, informed by

science, science, science, science, and inspired to work vice president al gore we created a subcommittee on energy independence and global warming led by now senator ed markey. despite what is happening in washington now, i am ever hopeful. because then working with republicans we passed the energy independence and security act signed by president bush, charting a new path to clean energy, reducing emissions, increasing the use of renewables and holding polluters accountable for environmental disasters, among other key iraqis. and to president obama, , we wet on to pass the waxman-markey american clean energy and security act in the house but we were stopped in the senate by the coal industry. for this and other reasons i'm so grateful to michael bloomberg the article initiative working with the sierra club. it is so essential.

[applause] as californians were exceptionally proud of our governor jerry brown for his decades -- [applause] thank you. where his decades of leadership as an early visionary, a brilliant strategist and persistent champion to preserve the planet for future generations. decades ago he recognized early that we must act swiftly, boldly, and collectively in the face of a grim future. one of rising oceans, oceans. he was early on the oceans issue. savage wildfires and extreme and unpredictable weather patterns that devastate communities. and destabilize our world. this conference, and thank you all for being here, this

conference is a manifestation of governor brown's determination to confront one of the most urgent and furious crises the world has ever faced. thank you, governor brown. [applause] to confront the climate challenge we must think globally, organize locally, and act personally. that means understanding how to engage everyone in the solution at every level of society across all ethnic and community lines, including our indigenous people. [applause] for them, lance is a gift from god and their ancestors who rest of their -- land -- a sacred place with which they need to interact if they are to maintain their identity and values. and we must also engage our

young people, because the future and this planets future belongs to them. [applause] i'm so pleased this is a top issue for millennials in the united states of america. michael bloomberg, michael bloomberg, our cochair, it's an honor for me to bring forward aye bloomberg. he understands the public sector, the private sector and the nonprofit sector, and how to harness the power of all three to drive progress. as u.s. special envoy for climate action, he has turbocharge the efforts of governments, businesses and civil society to set ambitious targets, and then to meet them. as me of new york he advanced cutting edge initiatives that slash emissions and a set the gold standard for our nation. as a business leader he appreciates the power of private

capital to combat the global climate crisis. as a philanthropist his generosity has been a magnet for other philanthropist to inform the public of what the climate crisis means to them in their lives. as an author and producer he is building public support for action and bring the crisis to the forefront of our national and global conversation. this is very important because when you say climate, sometimes people think that something into the future or very esoteric, but the fact is it's about clean air, clean water that our children and grandchildren read and drink. ..

blast with our cochairs. i also now want to acknowledge the extraordinary leadership across all sectors in our society. michael bloomberg, thank you, chairman michael bloomberg. [applause] many things the mayor has done, but one of the important things is to connect this issue to people and for them to see the connection of this value, this imperative in their lives. now we will give your preview of michael's new film called paris to pittsburgh. let's watch the clip. thank you all very much. [applause] >> the united states will withdraw from the paris climate accord. i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. >> pittsburgh, what was

upsetting about that is in our past. or even what the president we are dealing with each climate change. >> we had six and a half foot of water on the main model of the house. stuff that was in the garage i imagine that's louisiana now. >> in puerto rico the worst in us to reality will repeat. >> not a lot survived the fire.

everything just liquefied. not being able to save anything. it's really hard. >> if we are going to avoid reaching catastrophic levels, we need to be putting our foot on the renewable energy acceleration pedal. >> the transformation is the greatest economic opportunity at the 21st century. >> is missed is i not to say we are still committing to the paris accord because it is good for their bottom line. >> my daughter made a decision is where she wanted to be. >> the solar industry [inaudible] doesn't matter if you're republican, democrat, independent. you have a role to play. >> the goals of the paris agreement. if this are device, taking

control of us. our lives are at stake here. [applause] >> please welcome the united nations secretary general's special envoy for climate action, the founder of lunenburg philanthropies in the 108th mayor of new york city, michael bloomberg. >> thank you. [applause] ♪ >> at afternoon, good morning, wherever you come from. [inaudible] >> nice to see you.

thank you for coming. [shouting] [shouting] [shouting] [shouting]

[shouting] [shouting] [inaudible] >> only in america which you have someone protesting an environmental conference. [applause] >> anyway, what you think nancy in particular for her leadership and good work on this issue over the years. i hope you all enjoyed the trailer for our film, paris to pittsburgh. [applause] it will air on the "national geographic" channel in december, so mark your calendars. and i think you will be just as popular as from the ashes come

at the movie we made about coal. i also want to thank governor brown for bringing us together today in the city and date that have been leaders on climate change for a very long time and governor brown and congresswoman pelosi both deserve an awful lot of credit for that. [applause] now, california was a great example of how fighting climate change and growing the economy grow hand-in-hand and that is something we also saw in new york city. we created a record number of jobs while at the same time reducing our carbon footprint by 19%. i know many of you have had similar areas is in cities and countries and we appreciate the distance many of you travel to be here today. governor brown and i began talking about the summit last year after the trump administration announced its intention to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. obviously, neither of us were happy about that to say the

least. climate change is a global challenge in washington ought to be leading from the front. we also knew many people around the world with conclude wrongly that america was walking away from climate action. nothing could be further from the truth. and that is the message of this film and why we are here today. we want the world to know that americans are more determined than ever to make progress on climate and we are making progress right now. a lot of progress. in fact, just as much progress under this administration as we did under the last. [shouting] it's not for sale but that's okay. give them a second. let them have their say. [shouting] you would know from reading the headlines that we are making

progress because the headline focuses on the political fights in washington. but the real action is happening in cities, states and the earth and the good news is those groups are positioning united states uphold our end of the paris agreement no matter what happens in washington. the fact is in the united states decisions that have been the most palatial over greenhouse gas emissions are not made to the federal government. these positions are made by mayors and governors and corporate executives and individuals for their own homes who want to deliver cheaper energy, more jobs, clean air and help lives here they are made by ceos who want to save money on energy costs and capitalized new business opportunities generated by advanced technology in the air made the citizen who went to breathe fresh air and drink clean water that otherwise would make them sick.

because of all these groups over the last decade, the uss cut its emissions more than any other large nation in the world. last year with no help from washington whatsoever communis admissions fell to their lowest levels in 25 years. [applause] you can apply because you are part of the reason that made it happen. alan why that is happening is being written in communities across america and it's a story that just doesn't get old enough. let me give you one example. over the last six years, more than half of all u.s. coal-fired power plants have been closer made plans to do so. i'm happy to say since the 2016 election, coal-fired power plant closures have continued at the

same rate and the reason is simple. washington is in charge of america's energy production. consumers are in the new technology is delivering exactly what they want from energy that is cheaper and cleaner than coal. washington can't stop. yes, you can applaud. washington can't stop the decline of coal and he can't keep america from fulfilling the commitment we made in paris. thousands of u.s. cities universities have reformed their support for the paris agreement and to gather their work is being supported by initiative created by governor brown and bloomberg philanthropies called america's pledge.

america's pledge aggregates all the climate actions being taken by all the groups that have declared their support for the paris agreement. to put the size of the group in his comment represents more than half of the u.s. population. if it were a country would have the world's third-largest economy behind only china and the overall united states. in other words, if washington drops out of the paris agreement on the group of americans committed to it would represent more economic might than any other country still in the agreement other than china. the paris agreement wasn't only about commitments. it was about accountability and tour america's pledge we are upholding that end of the deal as well. by measuring the progress the u.s. is making cutting emissions and reporting back to the united nations just like every other nation is doing under the paris

agreement. we submitted our first report at the u.n. last climate conference in germany. this morning we released our latest report and announce some very encouraging news from it. the report based on rigorous data collected and analyzed shows the united states is nearly halfway to her paris goal of cutting emissions by 26% by the year 2025 and outlines the steps nonprofit organizations can take to help our country reach that mark. every day we're getting closer. let me give you a few examples. indianapolis has cut emissions by 17% through actions like changing thousands of street lights or leds. georgetown texas is running on 100% clean energy and dozens more cities are on the way. bloomberg is one of the many american companies committed to reaching the same goal and we are on track to get there by

2025. in the meantime improving our energy efficiency by 50%. a coalition of western states with republican and democratic governors are working together to build electric vehicle charging stations in progress like this come in small steps add up to big things are playing out around the country. that doesn't mean what happens in washington is important. it is. that's one reason i've gotten so involved in this year's midterm elections. [applause] i've never been a partisan guy. i've been a democrat, republican, independent, so i know something about partisan politics. republicans in washington had years to take on the issue and they've stuck their their heads in the sand. we need a new direction washington sun supporting democrats in their bid to take over the house of

representatives. [cheers and applause] that on his son won't break the deadlock but it will send a message that members of congress better start taking this issue seriously where the american public will send them packing. [applause] until they get leadership in washington, we are releasing this morning can serve as a blueprint for national climate action driven by the bottom up. a blueprint that other countries can use to make their own bottom-up progress and that's exactly what's starting to happen. the japanese climate initiative is a coalition of businesses, cities and regional governments working to accelerate progress there. nonstate groups was launched in mexico just last month and we are hopeful groups and more countries will grace this approach in the months and years ahead.

the goals were just the beginning. they have to keep aiming higher in the increasingly recognized how important cities, states and businesses aren't not work. through our foundation, and will help them harness the power of these groups and drive progress. we have a lot of group to do. every week seems to bring fresh evidence from rising sea levels to record cutting storms and wildfires. so this year, bloomberg philanthropies challenge the 100 biggest u.s. cities to create proposals for the two biggest services, transportation and building and we will announce the winners starting tomorrow. we are also helping states create plans to get more energy from clean sources and will keep working with the campaign to reduce our reliance on coal-fired power plants. we could do more support from the federal government.

instead the administration is inflicting real harm on america. according to the epa's own estimate, the new coal pollution rules had just proposed would lead to at least 1400 more premature death each year. i doubt those rules will ever go into effect because cities and state are fighting back as they have against all of washington attempts to reverse her progress. california i'm happy to say is leaving aggressive states resisting federal rollbacks of vehicle rollbacks other states are sending their own rules to reduce methane makes from oil and gas operations in cities all around the country coming climate emissions through energy efficiency, which bring savings to residents. we will keep fighting and keep winning to the non-americans in this room i would say thank you for not giving up on us. we are going to get there.

i'm convinced of that. and we are going to do it no matter what obstacles washington tries to throwing away. everyone here coming keep up all the great work you've been doing and i look forward to see new efforts and partnerships come out of the storm double keep us on the path to victory in the fight against climate change. all the best. we're going to win. [applause] ♪ >> today we heard about climate impact, but we've also heard about the hard-fought progress being made with the leadership of everybody here in this room we can continue to work to create an era where clean energy

is the new normal, an era where millions of people who live and work around the world will do so in a pollution free economy. all of us will benefit collectively by making climate action a priority because when we pursue a clean energy economy, we can also provide people with poverty and access to a better quality of life. one of the leaders who has helped us in the world here to understand the connection between poverty and climate change is dan jones. let's take a look at some of his work. >> the one thing we need to be focused on is building the green economy is strong enough to lift millions of people out of poverty. >> one of the biggest problems is around the high cost of living in low quality of life. >> all across the country, and they think it's okay.

it's not okay. >> this issue traditionally they have to be tackled separately. we now understand these issues are so interconnected that they can't actually be filed unless they are tackled together. >> it is hard to learn if you can't read. >> they pay for medical bills. >> there is a better technology out there that's not powered by pollution. it's powered by solution. >> we need to make sure the solutions are aggressive and accelerating the clean energy future. >> we have a responsibility to spread the good news. >> this power plants switched away from pole to benefit what we are standing in right now. >> is like affordable housing, green economy jobs, >> put our kids on buses going over to a clean energy future.

let's create some jobs for people. >> we are investing in a new economy or a community that has been under investigation for so long. >> it was actually hit hardest when it comes to pollution. i've been having more high pollution. >> climate change is having an impact. >> is just very high. >> i have to keep my a/c running and my bill got extremely high. >> we are addressing poverty and pollution at the same time. >> was grilled a more sustainable future with good jobs, better house and good environment. [cheers and applause]

>> i am honored to be here. we are going to have an extraordinary panel. please give a round of applause to the young people who make green for all work. let's hear it. i love the young folks we work with every day. our challenge is to fight pollution and poverty at the same time. you can create more work and more how thin the green economy than you ever will with a pollution-based economy and we'll hear from some of the best people in the world. i will walk to my chair and as i do i want to give you a round of applause to mayors of vessel turner from houston, captain houston, captained canada's minister of environment and climate change.

>> welcome, welcome. y'all keep clapping. these are amazing folks. first, i just want to say we don't have a lot of hope in the world right now with all the challenges in all of you in your rose in your kind of crazy and that you are willing to not only take on the climate crisis command that you're willing to do it in the way from a governance point of view, business point of view we want to hear from you how you're doing. i want every tear.

now, and your group is a $20.7 billion group. that's a lot of money even in this room. so, help me understand why you decided to be so charitable. i'm sure you're losing a lot of money. can you talk to us a little bit about all the money you're losing. [laughter] >> i hope my analyst didn't hear you. we are making money, but how did this start then? it does start with the heart. i do care about my grandson's future we had the same emotions. as we move from the heart and then you have your brand

enhancement goal. we found serendipitously everything we tried to do to help the planet make money for us. simply led lighting, a one-year payback. we said we should be in solar power because my corporate communication team does take a stand on something i meant a maverick engineer in our company creates a solar business and today we have the largest soldier developers -- solar developers. my message in the last few years has been very simply this. this is the biggest business opportunity at the next decade. if anyone wants to move away from climate change, leave the arena to less than two cebit has been the good of the planet converge, we are very happy. we get more mileage for ourselves. how do we get distraction and

continue to make our businesses look for innovation here. christiana spoke about that in the morning. so in dallas in january i issued a call globally to increase the number of companies that will commit to science-based targets. a sickly if you set targets will allow you to align with the paris agreement targets of limiting one to two degrees centigrade. if you do that you will be making progress together. i am happy to say that since that time, since january has been a 39% increase. the companies that are designed to. i am delighted and i want to congratulate all the companies in the world, combined $10 trillion in market cap in the companies committing.

let's go from corporate governance into the government sector. during canada. you're ruling out a pretty aggressive plan that i think ordinary people can understand. can you talk about what you try to get done in canada? >> if you cannot tackle climate change a have to take action across the board across sectors. one of the things are doing, it sounds really wonky putting a price on solution. the reason you need to do this is polluting is not free. i was just in the higher they can canada a few days ago with our indigenous peoples fair and

they are seeing huge impact of climate change including the food they rely on disappearing. we have huge forest fires across the west of canada. we have extremely poor people are dying and as i like to put a common taking action by not putting a cost on it coming or passing the biggest i've ever to future generations. i've got three kids and we can't do that. putting a price on pollution is something that's important. recognizing there is a cost. i'm a politician. i knock on doors and have to convince people that what were doing makes sense and there's other politicians that want to knock on doors you can do both. having a cost on solutions is important as what it does is businesses innovate the solution

then do exactly what the man said. they will take opportunity of the opportunity of growth and we will do what we have to do, which we need to be serious with climate action and we need to live a more sustainable planet for kids to! that is a strong case. this is getting weird because you're talking about making money. you have also found a different way to talk about this entire issue. thank you for having me.

we have reduced our carbon emissions by 73%. and so we are the living proof of business growth and sustainability go perfectly hand-in-hand. that is actually something we question a lot when we still have to talk about it. good business in the world if we do not work. but i would like to say our success stories we changed a little bit of the narrative around sustainability. what is sustainability when we talk about sustainability we very often talk about the

catastrophes that climate change is going to bring. the solutions that we propose sound very often like a punishment. they sound like not doing something, not being able to be a life and actually a sustainable life i'm in the sustainable world that if we do what is necessary, but an aspirational lifestyle. the kind we want to live in. that's what we are trying to do a l'oreal. sustainability is aspirational, beautiful, it is as glamorous, as desirable. >> let me ask you something.

you said something about scarcity that i hadn't thought about. can you say more about that? >> scarcity for us we are not going to do business in a society that is completely -- we are going to have conflict. the question is how can business still question has been how can we still talk about sustainability is good for business. >> give a round of applause. when you think about l'oreal, number two in the world that comes to carbon, that's pretty amazing stuff. we have a saying in the united states which of these things is not like the other.

you are the of houston, a city in texas. houston is the energy capital of the world. i think the protesters with try to find you. what is the mayor of houston texas doing at a green conference. you got hit by a big storm. how is your city doing amari so committed to climate solutions in houston, texas? >> the mayor of houston texas believes climate change is real. even the science. the city of houston is a part of the sea 40 city. i also cochair along with mayor garcetti the united states conference of mayors to be believed in the paris agreement and over 400 mayors in the united states has signed on the we are going to do everything we

can to fulfill the paris agreement. and if you don't lead at the top, there is the lead from where we are. and that includes places -- that includes places like houston, texas. in the last three years come in the of houston has faced 3500 year flood. in the last three years it is clear a question of whether i would make it to this conference because it is a system and it's not whether it's a hurricane anymore. you can have a major rain event just from a system that starts. harvey was a game changer. while we've all learned is sustainability go hand-in-hand. you can be the energy capital of the world. and at the same time, you can recognize we need to do a lot to address the climate change for

the future not only of our city, but other cities across the globe. so it is real. it's the energy capital of the world, but the city of houston is the number one municipality in the 90s is on the utilization of green energy. green power in the united states. 80% of our energy for the city of houston is land. 10% of solar unearthed a day. we just sent to a power purchase agreement. we increased our solar consumption from dirty megawatts to 50. we reduced the contract price by 80% in over 20 years we will be saving the city of houston $40 million. green power is energy power and literally for communities that have been ignored and overlooked for decades in our city. we are transforming and revitalizing communities through the use of green energy. you can be the energy capital and at the same time you can believe in climate change and

make some things happen. >> a round of applause for that. [applause] in the two minutes we have left, i want to come back to you because that seems like a pretty good sales pitch on green stuff in a red state. but you have to push up against a pretty tough opposition. you're talking about a price on on -- >> it always comes back to people. you can't be talking like an economist is someone whose fancy. and is worried about paying their bills. that's when we talk about why this is good for the middle class. this is good for people that they are going to be economic opportunities. here we have great canadian companies that are selling green solutions across the board. one thing i would say as a politician and i'm actually

saying this genuinely. we need support. we need support of business leaders like this. transitions take time. we've been on fossil fuels for a really long time. we've all benefited from them and making our way out of them is hard. but a losing proposition is not supporting governments that are trying to do hard things. it is hard. every day we have people who are doing what they are saying is wrong. we don't understand you're going to lose jobs. when we have business leaders who are saying of course this is a huge economic opportunity. and so, we all have to come together and that's why work so hard with cities, with provinces, with daytime meeting with your, with businesses to bring people together. because what you can see is if you divide people you're going to get nothing done.

[applause] >> love it, love it. i will give my business from the last word in the 30 seconds we have. you have gone above and beyond. you had to download and set up with al gore and challenge people. why did you do that and what came of that challenging to that challenging to shoot it down those? the number of companies that are looking to 18 a month, as i said is now 488. one more commitment i'd like to make because i issued a challenge to people, but we took on the challenge. you were kind enough to say we were 20 billion. it's not big in america. we employ 200,000 people were

probably listening now. what i would like to do is announce as far as the mahindra group is concerned, and i'm committing on behalf of then that we will be carbon neutral 10 years ahead of the paris agreement target. [applause] >> that is called him mike drop moment. we can't drop them because they are attached to our faces, but if the code i think he would have dropped the microphone. [applause] ♪

>> well, our next speaker is known in nearly every galaxy has a knack in legend, that he will be the first to tell you the planet earth is the only home we have. i'm very glad to introduce him as a tireless champion for conservation and an outspoken climate change activists. please welcome the executive vice chair of conservation international and recent recipient of its prestigious founders award, harrison ford. ♪ >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you for being here.

you're here. i'm here because we care. not just for today, but we care passionately for the future. we know that we only have the possibility of avoiding a looming climate catastrophe if people like us refuse to give up. conservation international has been working for 30 years to protect nature for people. i've been on the board for over 20 years. we've done some good work in that time, working with others, many of whom are in this room today. we've accomplished a lot. but all of that is at risk if we don't change the path we are on

today. the future of humanity is that take. while you work to meet the challenge of climate change, i beg of you, and don't forget nature because today -- [applause] because today the destruction of nature accounts for more global emissions than all the cars and trucks in the world. we can put solar panels on every house. we can turn every car into an electric vehicle, but as long as the mantra burned, we will have failed. so long as the amazon great forests are slashed and burned, so long as the protected land of

tribal people, indigenous people are allowed to be encroached upon, wetlands are destroyed, our climate goals will remain out of reach and we will be out of time. if we don't stop the destruction of our natural world, nothing else will matter. why? because protect teen in restoring these huge, dense carbon things represent at least 30% of what needs to be done to avoid catastrophic warning. it is not this time the only feasible solution for absorbing carbon on a global scale. simply put, if we don't protect nature, and we can't protect

ourselves. [applause] this is what we need to do. we need to in nature in every corporate, state and national climate goal, put in place to meet those goals, invest in the same way in renewable energy. work two and the destruction of these ecosystems, commit to the effort in the next decade to secure them for the future. pursue research in reforestation likely do research in carbon capture and storage. [cheers and applause]

a goal to cut cost and increase scale dramatically. empower indigenous communities to use their knowledge, their history, their imagination. our science to save their heritage and their lands respect and ensure they are right. educate and elect leaders who believe in science and understand the importance of protecting nature. stop, for god's sake, the denigration of science. stop giving power to people who don't believe in science or worse than not pretend they don't believe in science for their own self-interest. they know who they are.

we know who they are. we are all rich or poor, powerful are powerless. we will all suffer the effects of climate change and ecosystem destruction and we are facing what is quickly becoming the greatest moral crisis of our time, that those least responsible will bear the greatest costs. so never forget who you're fighting for. who wonders where their next catchers coming from another factory fishing from across the world. the next big storm is going to rip her and sent out of her arms. it's the people right here in california, people on the east coast who were fleeing from

unprecedented fires. people on the east coast are facing the worst storms in recorded history. it's our own country, our own community, our own families. this is if we are to survive on this planet, and the only home any of us will ever know for our climate, for security, for our future, we need nature. now more than ever. [applause] because nature does it meet people. people need nature. so let's turn off our phones, roll up our sleeves and kick this monster is asked.

♪ >> hi, everybody. i wish i could view with all of you. i want to take a minute to thank all of you. business leaders, scientists, teachers, inventors, for all that you are doing to lead us forward on climate. with each year that goes by we see a more intense and urgent preview of our future. if the climate keeps changing faster than our efforts to address it. the summer was no different. it makes me think of something once said. we're the first generation to feel the impact of climate change in the last generation that can do something about it. that conviction is why i made climate change a priority while

i was president in more than double production of clean energy like wind and solar. we changed the way we consume energy from the cars and trucks we drive in the homes and businesses we live and work. at the same time with china and india and dozens of other countries to set ambitious climate targets. those led to the paris agreement that will do a some of the worst consequences. obviously the united states is the only country on earth it doesn't belong to the paris agreement we helped forage. that's a tough position to defend. the paris agreement was never going to solve the climate crisis is up to all of us. presidents can set goals and

priorities but it up to everyone else to do the work required to meet them in the player leadership is so important. 17 governors and 400 mayors who've committed to upholding the paris agreement. the climate trailblazers enact this, engineers, marine biologists were fighting climate change around the globe. every single passionate idealistic young person who's marching in organizing because they know they're such a thing as being too late and they're determined not to make that happen. you are about to meet some of these young people right now. thank you so much, everybody. take it away. >> and now, please join me in welcoming, and need to know what

film and denise. ♪ >> thank you. we are here today because we cannot wait any longer. as the ones who are going to inherit the planet, our generation has the biggest stake in this fight are the most to gain, and the most to lose. growing up there as a stream in my village, the northern part of uganda. it was there i would swim with friends -- other inhabitants

lead off of this dream. 14 years later, my grandmother tells me the stream that once was our lifeblood is now and try in the sunny season. climate change is not a far-fetched concept for my people. we believe ourselves to be the protect arizona the planet i share with you today not for the restoration of that stream, but the lifeblood of future generations of the world. we have problems from different angles and resolving new problems with different issues. i grew up in donna were bamboo

is found in abandoned. so i came out with a new initiative. for now, we've created employment for women and young people in our country. we are producing hundreds every month. we are also cultivating bamboo to create another empowerment. as we can see, that is the carbon dioxide. that reduces carbon emissions. just one of the young entrepreneurs around the globe trying to see how we can find new solutions. together, we make progress. thank you.

[applause] >> we are on a clock running out of time. i come from a land of privilege. the river is powerful and provides bouncy, but it can also take it away in an instant, like it did for so many people last year and this year. when i was flying here, i looked down at the rivers crisscrossing the sierra nevada mountain. many narrow channels unassuming the landscape around them was harsh and barren, stricken by heat. the current political time feels like that. we are surrounded by unforgiving mountains, but the river process. single-minded determination to

find other ways. it cuts through mountains, and even when sometimes it can only chisel away. we must elect the river to the mountains of obstacles we face. there are many, but we have the solutions -- >> will take you live now. president trump boarding marine one after having visiting the damage of the hurricanes on the gulf coast here in florida.

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[inaudible conversations] >> in here just looking live at president trump aboard marine one after having surveyed the damage from the hurricanes here in the gulf coast. air force base in florida, watching the president take off now.

>> with 22 days until the midterm election, c-span continues to bring debates from around the country. later today in virginia's second district, republican congressman dave bratt. at 8:00 p.m. eastern other public and to meet us for a district between incumbent mia love and democratic challenger ben mcadams.

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