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Schwarzenegger himself emphasized that the trees were not only placed as decoration: “They remind us that the civilized world also needs nature.” You may feel that right now, especially in your California adoptive home. Wildfires have been ravaging the west coast of the United States for days, and for the first time there was even a warning of a fiery tornado, the former state governor reported.
Precisely because the fight against climate change is so urgent, he decided not to cancel the World Summit despite the pandemic. “Time is of the essence,” climate change kills seven million people each year, “and there is no vaccine against it, except for our actions,” Schwarzenegger said.
sustainability
Now it is about using Corona relief funds for the sustainable reconstruction of the global economy, emphasized the 73-year-old: “Do not invest in the past.” Now it’s about creating sustainable jobs for people. Van der Bellen seconded: We need “an economy that is not empty.”
That is also the goal of the “Austrian World Summit” and the “Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative” that supports it: to bring concrete solutions to problems related to climate change and our wasteful use of nature to the end and to bring them closer to politicians and donors.
As a project of the Austrian water treatment specialist BWT, which is installing low maintenance wells in The Gambia. Access is made through a chip on which the “water credits” are loaded, in which, however, investments can also be made remotely. In this way, more than 40 million liters of drinking water were distributed to ten villages in 2020.
From below
Schwarzenegger also referred to the power of “bottom-up” projects that come from the population or from the lower political levels. There were many skeptics when he signed California’s “Global Warming Solutions Act” in 2006, which set maximum emission limits. But not only were emissions targets lowered earlier than expected, the state’s economy also grew strongly.
At the end of the World Summit there was a great honor for Arnie: Federal President Van der Bellen presented him with the Grand Gold Medal of Honor with Star for Services to the Republic. For her services to Austrian-US relations, “but perhaps most of all for her role as ‘climate action hero,'” Van der Bellen said.
