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Gov. Schwarzenegger wasted no time Monday (Nov. 15) explaining why his third annual climate summit was being held at �ٺ���Ƶ.

After two years in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital of the world, he said, “we decided to bring this conference to the environmental capital of the world.” Schwarzenegger addressed an audience of about 1,200 during the opening session of the , which concludes today. Click for the live webcast.

Watch , including tropical forest advocate Harrison Ford.

, noting how the university beats all other educational institutions in the publishing of environmental research, by nearly 20 percent.

She described �ٺ���Ƶ as “a top public research university that has long been a leader in clean-technology research and has become an emerging model for sustainable change up and down the state of California, across the nation and around the world.”

The chancellor listed a number of pioneering solutions in such fields as sustainable agriculture, nitrogen dynamics, food security, water management, sustainable energy and biofuels, and plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles.

Further, she noted how �ٺ���Ƶ had pioneered the environment as an academic field of study, in the first-in-the-nation College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences.

Today, Schwarzenegger said, �ٺ���Ƶ’ professors and scientists “are pioneering innovative and green-building energy efficiency and also clean transportation and working on so many different issues and I'm so proud of them.

“At the same time they are teaching and training our environmental leaders of tomorrow. I want to thank them for their great work.”

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, 9:30-11:45 a.m. and 1:30-3:30 p.m.today (Nov. 16)

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(Katehi, Schwarzenegger, Ford and Shultz)

Earlier coverage: (Nov. 15, 2010)

Earlier coverage: (Nov. 5, 2010)

Earlier coverage: (Nov. 3, 2010)