President-Elect Obama at the Governors' Global Climate Summit:
My presidency will mark a new chapter in the Federal role in fighting climate change.
Highlights include:
- Federal cap & trade system (yeah!),
- Target 1990 emissions levels by 2020, 80% reduction by 2050
- $15b/year investment (still including "safe" nuclear & "clean" coal)
- Create 5 million green jobs ("that can't be outsourced")
There was a standing ovation for the video appearance (it was hard to resist interrupting it with applause) and moist eyes all over the room.
It's a major milestone and a new day -- the USA finally firmly on the path CA and others have pioneered. And now the work -- to reimagine and reinvent the human economy -- really begins.
Let's rock!