Arnold und Tony Blair

Arnold trifft Tony Blair an seinem letzten offiziellen Bürotag.

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"Man is Arnie working this governorship to the max. networking with the big guys..also met with the French president and last month the Canadian Prime Minister in Ottawa. In self-promotion & marketing you've got to have a schtik, his is the environment.


Blair, Schwarzenegger hold talks in London on environment
Governor says Britain is a model for building an environmentally sensitive economy.

LONDON -- Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger met Tuesday to discuss the trans-Atlantic battle against global warming.

The pair held breakfast talks at 10 Downing St. in Blair's final meeting with a foreign official before he steps down as Britain's prime minister on Wednesday.

Schwarzenegger, a conservative who has put major emphasis on the fight against climate change, praised Blair's "great leadership" on the environment.

He said that during a decade in power, the British leader has "proven to the world that you can do both, you can protect the Earth and protect the economy."

Last year, Schwarzenegger signed legislation that imposed the first statewide cap on greenhouse gases. The move put California at odds with the Bush administration, which has resisted global agreements to limit emissions.

Blair said a declaration on climate change agreed by the G-8 group of industrialized nations earlier this month was a major step forward.

"For the first time at the G-8 a few weeks ago we have an agreement on the basic principles for a new global deal on climate change," Blair told reporters.

The agreement calls for a "substantial cut" in the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming, although it does not commit nations to an exact figure.

On Monday, Schwarzenegger held talks in Paris with new French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Schwarzenegger said after the talks that he admired Sarkozy "tremendously," and believed he would "put a new energy in the relationship between France and other countries, and our state.""


MfG Steven