China, India, Australia, Canada, Mexico and EU invited

Climate emissions "terminator" and California Governor Arnold

Schwarzenegger has called a meeting of friendly countries to work out

ways of cutting back greenhouse gas emissions.

The governor invited China, India, Australia, Canada and Mexico as

well as EU countries to attend the meeting before a United Nations

next coordinated climate gathering in Poland.

Schwarzenegger wants the US and China - the world's biggest emitters

of CO2 - to reduce carbon emissions to prevent further implosions of

climate change such as droughts and floods.

"We know that Washington is asleep at the wheel. We cannot look for

leadership there," Schwarzenegger told the San Francisco's

Commonwealth Club.

California has set its own legislation to cap emissions and is

operating an independent market for carbon credits separate from the

federal government. Schwarzenegger is also opposed to drilling for oil

and gas off the coast of California - despite the federal government

passing new legislation to allow drilling offshore.

The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) that includes California and six

other U.S. states and four provinces in Canada, aims to cut greenhouse

gas emissions by 15 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.

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