Lets call this session to order. If everybody who is all right. Whoever is going to be in, get in. Whoever is going to not, dont. All right. Thank you all. Thank you all so much. Can i have everybodys attention in the room, please. Thank you so much. I know time is precious for a lot of people and we have a lot of very important guests and i want to make sure that everybodys time is honored. Im just thrilled to be able to have a conversation about something that just continues to challenge us in a very significant way in the country, and theres no reason to believe its going to abate. All of us are going to suffer through disasters of one type or another, and cities along with states and the federal government, have been working very, very hard, before and significantly after september 11th to make sure we organize ourselves as a country so that we can recover quickly from disasters that happen so we prepare for them, and so that we build in a way where were resilient. When bad things
Thank you. Thank you mayor turner for the comments. [applause] you are right, many times you can be a victim of your success, because as we all know, unfortunately, what the folks see in d. C. , specially members of congress, the positive things are happening, not the negative things happening. Sometime when they see the negative things they avoid it. Ive beened an sad co sow cat dh think federal Emergency Management agency does a good job of administering public assistance, but on the other side, the transition from shortterm recovery to longterm recovery, when we pate for supplementat bills to get through congress, the Community Development block grant dollars take long time to get to communes and the elderly woman you spoke of. So thank you very much for those comments. Our next speaker is mayor craig cates of key west, fourth generation key wester and born and raised in the city. Didnt like the direction was the was headed and knew rung for offers was the only dui make the change,
All right, y all right, you guys, why dont we go ahead and call this session to order. If everybody who is all right. You guys, whoever is going to whoever is going to be in, get in. Whoever is not, dont. All right. Thank you all thank you all so much. Can i have everybodys attention in the room, please . Thank you so much. I know time is precious for a lot of people and we have a lot of very important guests with us and i want to make sure everybodys time is honored, and im just thrilled to be able to have a conversation about something that just continues to challenge us in a very significant way in the country and there is no reason to believe that its going to abate, all of us are going to suffer through disasters of some type or another and cities along with states and the federal government have been working very, very hard before and significantly after september 11th to make sure that we organize ourselves as a country so that we can recover quickly from disasters that happen s
Lot of people and we have a lot of very important guests and i want to make sure that everybodys time is honored. Im just thrilled to be able to have a conversation about something that just continues to challenge us in a very significant way in the country, and theres no reason to believe its going to abate. All of us are going to suffer through disasters of one type or another, and cities along with states and the federal government, have been working very, very hard, before and significantly after september 11th to make sure we organize ourselves as a country so that we can recover quickly from disasters that happen so we prepare for them, and so that we build in a way where were resilient. When bad things happen we are not hurt nearly as wood bad and other im thread tile elaine duke, who oversees fema and the recovery agencies as well. Mayor Sylvester Turner of houston, texas, who went through his own trauma. The mayor of key west florida. Paul rain worth who has served in many cap
Picture of the security in that way. The way asia is thinking and u. S. And not america and europe has slightly different perspectives. Thats why i want to start by the challenges we are facing. The conclusion will be understood by the many participants here. As you see that asia is growing into the Economic Growth that is exciting. Given the Economic Growth. That growth has many challenges. Not including the rising of Energy Demand. The rising of energy is not a good thing. We have to curb those Energy Demands. By various measures. And also with the growing population they have three points, 3 billion population. 600 million population and imagine how many population and united in terms of Energy Access. But clearly for electricity. In terms of Energy Demand in the region actually by now and as a whole, that Energy Demand will grow by double from 400 million up to 8,500 million. In terms of energy perspective, the enormous issue of how they secure Reliable Energy in terms of the affor