California Local Officials Speak at Bali Climate Summit

A pair of Sonoma local officials attended the widely publicized International Climate Change forum in bali last week, a meeting that could produce the largest worldwide environmental agreement since Kyoto.  The Sonoma Index-Tribune has the full story.  Though the two designates were from the county and a special district, respectively, it is encouraging to hear that locals were included in the discussions and appropriately valued for their input. 

Quoted in the Index-Tribune, Sonoma Supervisor Paul Kelly said "The most interesting thing I learned in the context of 160 nations talking about future agreements on greenhouse gas emissions is that right now local governments are the ones doing something about it. We can see why the state of California was interested in having local government representatives come and share their information."

Comments

[Peter]

Why are local governments attending a conference in Bali for a summit on climate cotrol? A waste of taxpayer moeny. Talking about a problem and doing something about it is two different things, There is nothing these two persons could do at that summit that would change anything that comes out of the summit. I am sure they had great time, as for global wrming, yeah right,these two did alot.