Schwarzenegger, Crist talk about global warming in California

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger convenes a two-day Global Climate Summit in Beverly Hills starting Tuesday, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will be among the 600 environmental officials, activists and politicians from Borneo to Bulgaria to attend, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Schwarzenegger was the headline-grabbing guest star of Crist's own climate change summit in Miami in 2007, as well as keynote speaker in 2008. Now Crist is returning the favor.

The agenda shows Crist joining Schwarzenegger and the governors of Wisconsin, Illinois and Kansas in a discussion with representatives from various countries to talk about the response to global warming so far.

"Schwarzenegger calls it a 'historic summit' that will create 'an alliance of states, provinces and regional governments' to influence upcoming negotiations on a new global climate treaty," the Times reports. "He plans to join Illinois and Wisconsin in signing agreements with two Indonesian and four Brazilian states to work on tropical forest preservation."

"Schwarzenegger also will issue a declaration endorsed by 12 U.S. governors, along with regional representatives from Brazil, Canada, India, Indonesia and Mexico, to share technology and cooperate on reducing global-warming emissions from high-polluting industries."

[AP photo of Schwarzenegger and Crist at Crist's global warming summit in Miami.]

Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer

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