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and the signature was about common climate fight against climate change action between the committee of the region and Conference of us mayor in the same time in the same occasion we had the presence of the 2,000 signature of the Covenant of Mayors is a mayor of Romania and the 25 capital cities the cities of bailing signing the Covenant Covenant of mail and also the support of the 100 the region the region of murcia in Spain so as you can see the committee of the region and the Commission Commission and the committee of the region are receiving a very strong support from our mayor and our regions in Europe and we are growing with our engagement with this agreement with the US mayor's it is a grand occasion for us to come together to work together across the Atlantic this is an important occasion for us mayors of the United States because we believe in the actions that we are taking to preserve our planet and so with this kind of partnership and the sharing of best practices and the leveraging of our resources with our businesses we know that we can make a difference we know that we can get to critical mass and we all know what happens when we get to critical mass we make a huge difference and so despite whether our federal government signs the Kyoto agreement or not we mayors and 84 million people of the united states have pledged to ensure the protection of our planet and we are here to stand together with the committee of the region with Madam President Barroso and with the European Union and with the commissioner and to say we continue to forge on thank you I am very thrilled to be here and I wish you all the success with what the committee of the regions are trying to do here and I think that the more cities that will come on board the most citizens will also start to realize why this is so crucial important and there you have a very strong role to play because you are out there where people actually live their life and can see some of the benefits of taking this agenda seriously and I must say it's a pleasure to be here with Mayor couch because I would not hide that sometimes it's a bit frustrating for us in Europe that your Senate doing that so far did not want to make the legislation that the rest of the world is waiting for but I know that pule like yourself and a lot of good people out there in the cities are doing a lot of effort to try despite of the problems and challenges in Washington just to do it and that is what we need to have the good examples and to have people who just shows you can do this and it will not harm your gross if we do it intelligently you can have those jobs growth innovation energy security and you can also do something good for the climate so we wish you all the best and if you also had the luck to convince Washington you would have our strong support from Europe okay so to summarize we have three objective is this agreement is signature the first mobilized citizen young people we met some students from European and American school this morning to mobilize the businessmen and local leaders the second point is to take a joint position in international negotiation and we know how is important and the shot is a best practices and Twin Cities to obtain good result in our fight again guys but cannot change I have a question other definite aims definite steps you want to reach with that joint action yes there are first is one of the things is to raise the awareness of what climate protection action is and each and every one of us have strategies in place and we will educate the Nexus sharing best practice that we continue to leverage that resource between our cities the cities of America and the cities of Europe and the other is to continue the education and to work with our businesses to leverage those resources connecting is there a timetable for this you have a vision in which time you could reach this their first and then president wrestle for each of us we all have sustainability plans and there is one that is critical to every mayor who signed that the climate protection agreement that we will reduce our co2 levels by seven percent by 2012 on the levels of 1990 which is the kyoto protocol but most of us have gone beyond that I think that the exchange of best practice is our main objectives to do so we live in Stockholm when at the european green capital aware the round table between us and you a mayor's to exchange experience on greening cities in January we will be in Washington and we be real we will have a roundtable with business leaders and mayor's especially on environment and green jobs another subject very important in this moment of crisis in May 2011 in Brazil we will have a workshop in the annual conference of covenant of layers together with the US Conference mayor to develop common strategies