【正文】 vel risewould do to parts of it: It would be devastating amp。ndash。 entire habitats destroyed, entire populationsdisplaced from their homes, in some cases entire cultures wiped out. They just had flashflooding in Guadalcanal amp。ndash。 unprecedented amounts of rainfall. And thatamp。rsquo。s whatamp。rsquo。s happened withclimate change amp。ndash。 unprecedented storms, unprecedented typhoons, unprecedentedhurricanes, unprecedented droughts, unprecedented fires, major damage, billions andbillions of dollars of damage being done that weamp。rsquo。re paying for instead of investing those billionsof dollars in avoiding this in the first place.
　　Thatamp。rsquo。s why we are deepening our partnerships with the Pacific Island nations and others to meetimmediate threats and longterm development challenges. And weamp。rsquo。re working through USAIDand other multilateral institutions to increase the resilience of munities. And weamp。rsquo。reelevating our engagement through the Pacific Islands Forum. And weamp。rsquo。ve signed maritimeboundaries, new maritime boundaries with Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia inorder to promote good governance of the Pacific Ocean and peaceful relations among islandnations. And weamp。rsquo。re also working on a Pacific Pathway of marine protected areas that includesPresident Obamaamp。rsquo。s mitment to explore a protected area of more than a million squaremiles in size in the . remote Pacific.
　　We just held a conference on the oceans in Washington the other day with nations all over theworld came to it amp。ndash。 unbelievably productive. We produced $ billion of mitments to helpwith fisheries enforcement, antipollution, dealing with acidification, and to protect theseareas as marine sanctuaries.
　　The good news is in the end amp。ndash。 and this really amp。ndash。 it really is good news. Sometimes you have anissue amp。ndash。 Mr. Mayor, I know you know this. Governors, you know this. Youamp。rsquo。re looking at an issueand, man, you scratch your head and youamp。rsquo。re not quite sure what the solution is, right? Andyou work through it. Well, the good news is the biggest challenge of all that we face right now,which is climate change in terms of international global effect, is an opportunity. Itamp。rsquo。s actuallyan extraordinary opportunity because itamp。rsquo。s not a problem without a solution. The solutionto climate change is simple. Itamp。rsquo。s called energy policy. Energy policy. Make the right choicesabout how you produce your energy amp。ndash。 without emissions, without coalfired power plants thatdonamp。rsquo。t have carbon capture and storage or arenamp。rsquo。t burning clean amp。ndash。 then you can begin toproduce clean energy.
　　And the new energy market that weamp。rsquo。re looking at is the biggest market the world has ever about that for a moment. The wealth that was generated in the 1990s amp。ndash。 I donamp。rsquo。t know ifyou know this, but most people think that America got the richest during the 1920s when youhad the socalled, even in the late 1800s, robber baron years, and then you had the greatnames of wealth amp。ndash。 Carnegie, Mellon, Frick, Rockefeller, and so forth. And no ine tax amp。ndash。 wow,gonna make a lot of money.
　　Guess what. America made more wealth and more money for more people in the 1990s than atany other time in our history. And what it came from, the wealth that was generated then, wasthe hightech puter revolution of the 1990s, and guess what. It came from a $1 trillionmarket with 1 billion users, 1 for 1. The energy market that weamp。rsquo。re looking at in the world todayis six times bigger, by far more important. Itamp。rsquo。s a $6 trillion market today with 4 to 5 billionusers today, and it will go up to 7 to 9 billion users in the next 30 years. The fastest segmentby far of growth in that market is clean energy.
　　We need to build a grid in America. We need to amp。ndash。 we could use solar thermal to produce heatin Massachusetts, in Minnesota, take wind power from our states, sell it somewhere else. Wecanamp。rsquo。t even do that because we donamp。rsquo。t have that grid in place.
　　So I want to emphasize to all of you: Weamp。rsquo。re not going to find a sustainable energy mix in the19th century or 20th century solutions. Those are the problems. We need a formula for 21stcentury that will sustainably power us into the 22nd century. And I believe that, workingtogether, the United States and countries across the Asia Pacific can make this leap. Thatamp。rsquo。s anexciting opportunity and thatamp。rsquo。s what weamp。rsquo。re working on with China today.
　　The bottom line is we donamp。rsquo。t have time to waste. If weamp。rsquo。re going to power a clean energyrevolution, we have to work together to dampen security petition and rivalry in theAsia Pacific and focus on these other constructive efforts. And so our third challenge is clear:We need to turn maritime conflicts into regional cooperation.
　　All of us in this room understand that these disputes in the South China Sea and elsewhere,theyamp。rsquo。re really about more than claims to islands and reefs and rocks and the economic intereststhat flow from them. Theyamp。rsquo。re about whether might makes right or whether global rules andnorms and rule of law and international law will prevail. I want to be absolutely clear: TheUnited States of America takes no position on questions of sovereignty in the South and EastChina Sea, but we do care about how those questions are resolved. We care about behavior. Wefirmly oppose the use of intimidation and coercion or force to assert a territorial claim byanyone in the region. And we firmly oppose any suggestion that freedom of navigation andoverflight and other lawful uses of the sea and airspace are privileges granted by a big state toa small one. All claimants must work together to solve the claims through peaceful means, bigor small. And these principles bind all nations equally, and all nations have a responsibility touphold them.
　　Now, I just participated in the ASEAN Regional Forum, and we were encouraged there to amp。ndash。 weencouraged