Eric Garcetti

At its core, infrastructure isn't about a single mode of transportation, it is about innovation and jobs and human beings.

The transition is coming. It is not a matter of it, but when.

Diversity is critical in our energy supply, but remember that renewables are diverse.

We must streamline permitting processes through laser-focused agency coordination and accelerated environmental review.

It is not a question of if, it is when we will get off natural gas.

It is not a matter if we transition, it is when.

This is about jobs. I would just say, read the LA100 Report. It was written not by my level of government, but yours. It shows that we can do this.

We are on our way to 55 percent renewable energy by 2025 and 80 percent by 2036, 100 percent no later than 2045.

There is a ten-alarm fire going off, and it is called this climate emergency.

We would run toward that. We would bring our capital toward that, and we would embrace that in a minute.

It is time to make that law. Set a target, inspire the investment.

Think big, and think jobs, and think speedy. I think that is something that brought everybody here together.