美國加州州長阿諾協同英國首相布萊爾31日聯合簽署一項協議，誓言加強雙方的合作關係，以應對氣候變遷並且發展新綠色能源技術。兩位領導人表示，有效降低溫室氣體排放並減緩氣候變遷之負面影響，是當前急迫性的工作，對次他們都已有所體認。
共和黨籍的阿諾現已準備競選工作，在11月改選州長時爭取連任。阿諾指出：「加州要先採取強力行動因應全球暖化，不會坐等聯邦政府…，因此我們加州和英國率先簽署協議，這是史無前例的。」他說：「國際間必須合作對抗全球暖化，加州有深切的責任要保護好我們的環境，此舉也將成為全世界的楷模。」加州是世界上溫室氣體二氧化碳排放第12高的經濟體，另一方面，該州的能源效能規定比許多州嚴格。
雙方領袖經過1小時圓桌會議後所簽署的文件稱為「使命宣言」，簽署地點為加州長堤，內容主要在乾淨能源和氣候議題，而另有九位企業界巨頭也參與該會議。
企業界領袖於會中承諾他們會採取行動因應氣候變遷，宣稱這是「全球必須關注優先的議題，並且需要相互協調合作，為我們的後世子孫著想，我們必須遏制氣候暖化，設法穩定氣候。」
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and British Prime Minister Tony Blair signed an agreement Monday to become partners in addressing climate change and promoting new clean fuel technologies. The two leaders said they recognize the immediate need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ease the adverse consequences of climate change.
"California will not wait for our federal government to take strong action on global warming," said Governor Schwarzenegger, a Republican who is running for re-election in November. "Today, we are taking an unprecedented step by signing an agreement between California and the United Kingdom," the governor said. "International partnerships are needed in the fight against global warming and California has a responsibility and a profound role to play to protect not only our environment, but to be a world leader on this issue as well."
California's economy is the 12th largest emitter of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the world, although energy efficiency standards are higher than in many other states.
The "mission statement" signed by the two leaders comes after an hour-long roundtable in Long Beach focused on clean energy and climate issues with the governor, the prime minister and nine corporate executives.
The business leaders committed themselves to tackle climate change, describing it as a "global priority requiring focused and coordinated effort to avert the worst affects of global warming and restabilize our climate for future generations."
