steve westly, managing partner, the westly group
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How California Can Lead the Clean Tech Revolution
Presentation by Steve Westly
September 23, 2010
Los Angeles, CA
The problem is huge
The problem is huge
* c/o USGS – 22 Feb 2010
Map shows in blue the ice extent in 1947 between Charcot Island and the Wilkins Ice Shelf. The red line shows the ice shelf edge in 2009.*
The problem is getting worse
* Harvard Public Health study
83 mm Chinese will die of lung disease in next 25 yrs*
It’s a global problem
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PARTICULATE MATTER OVER LOS ANGELES THAT CAME FROM ASIA:
AB 32AB 32
Prop 71Prop 71
Global Policy Leader
Help is on the way: public sector
Help is on the way: private sector
A smart place to invest
Clean tech investing: leading innovation
$1.99bn
$9.22bn
Electric cars
Synthetic fuel
500 acres of solar in West Palm Beach
New innovations
Multi-billion-dollar companies
Massive deployments
3 GW
Clean tech is a global phenomenon
220 MW
16,000 MW
Even the…
China: partners or competitors?
• Increased avg. MPG to 42 (over US’s 39)
• Planting 150,000 sq. mi. of trees
• Established 50% feed in tariff for wind
• Committed to 20% renewable by 2020
An alternate universe