About 400 of the most important leaders in the free world gathered in Los Angeles in September to collaborate on strategies to improve global stewardship and battle man-made factors effecting climate change.
"The two most important global powers straddle the Pacific Ocean," said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti at the Sept. 14, opening reception. "It is up to the leaders of China and the United States, The Climate Leaders, to drive the solutions that the rest of the world will follow."
Featured in the opening video at the Sept. 15, plenary session was BYD Motors.
"BYD is the company that will save the world," said Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris, who was instrumental in attracting the company to Lancaster, as well as metropolitan Los Angeles, back in 2011. "Our streets are already quieter, and our air cleaner, with BYD's buses, trucks and cars. However, the economic impact of green-tech is just as significant. Companies like BYD have been instrumental in rebuilding the economies of cities like Lancaster across the nation."
Also in attendance were 7 of BYD's electric buses. Ranging in length from 23 to 40 feet, and varying from transit to charter coach and luxury configurations the buses were selected to transport the governors, mayors and other dignitaries to offset the carbon footprint of the conference as well as showcase the world changing products that are being produced in Los Angeles county.
