In an unexpected video message broadcasted in California during an international summit devoted to the climatic change, Mr Obama underlined that it would carry out new choices on this question when it would take its functions January 20. “Few challenges to which ones the United States, and the world, face, are more urgent than to fight the climatic change. The science does not discuss itself, and do them are clear”, declared Mr. Obama, of which the comments were welcomed triumphantly by the participants to the summit, sponsored by the governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger. The assistance, in a hotel of Beverly Hills, close to Los Angeles, got up at the end of the speech for an ovation closely of a minute. Certain participants, campaigning of the fight against the warming, wiped tears of joy.

Mr. Obama has also declare “And when I will take my functions, you can be sure that the United States will be involved themselves again energetically in these negotiations and will help to guide the world towards a new era of world-wide cooperation on the climatic change”, it promised. “This is the moment to do facing this challenge once for all. Await no longer is an option. Denial no longer is an acceptable response. The issues too students, the consequences too engrave”, added the future president American.

Mr. Schwarzenegger, that erected itself in fight hero against the warming, was said “very, very happy” speech of Mr. Obama. Although republican as Mr. Bush, Mr. Schwarzenegger took a political action contrary to the federal administration on the warming question. It notably promulgated in 2006 an ambitious law on the transmission reduction polluting, in the spirit of the Kyoto protocol that Mr. Bush always refused to do to ratify, and followed Washington in justice for that his State can impose its norms antipollution to the car manufacturers. “This is very important for our country, because we were most polluting biggest world (…) it is time to work with of other countries to fight the climatic warming”, indicated Mr. Schwarzenegger while opening definitely this summit.

Of others participating have them also expressed their joy, as Jim Lyons, vice president of the NGO Oxfam. “Well, what change an election can bring!”, it is exclaimed itself to the tribune. This is exactly the kind of “leadership” that the country and the world awaited”, equally congratulated itself the president of the center Pew on the world-wide climatic change, Eileen Claussen, in a communiqué. Some 800 persons, of which of the representatives of the united Nations, European Union, China, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia and Mexico, participate in this encounter of two days, where Mr. Schwarzenegger invited four other American governors with which these it must sign a final declaration of cooperation Wednesday evening.