Here’s what Californians are doing at the Copenhagen Climate Summit, which is now in its second and final week:

>> Cali Governor Schwarzenegger spoke to the crowd at Copenhagen, urging the U.N. to host a climate summit not for countries, but for cities, states, provinces, and regions. And he’d like said summit to happen in California.

>> Grist’s Amanda Little calls Schwarzenegger’s comments “a shockingly defeatist speech tricked out with sunny language about private-sector innovation”:

In an attempt to raise spirits, the Governator lowered expectations: failing in Copenhagen won’t discredit all the amazing progress that’s happening at state and local levels…. For a guy who was introduced by Canadian premier Gordon Campbell as “a climate action hero for the globe,” the Governor’s comments reflect staggeringly low expectations for the officials at Copenhagen.

>> The L.A. Times reports that Copenhagen’s full of “hundreds, if not thousands, of Californians — the governor, as well as the mayor of Los Angeles, academic superstars and green tech gurus, environmentalists and college students”:

None of the Californians, however, are involved in the actual negotiations: Those are led by diplomats behind closed doors…. But that’s not the point. At hundreds of side panels, conferences, receptions, and exhibits, everyone who is anyone in the world of carbon control gets a chance to rub shoulders with other players.

Earlier: Disillusioned in but hopeful after Copenhagen

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