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  • Date:
    25 January 2012
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    Obama demands clean standards, tax credits, in State of Union

    President Obama called on Congress to ramp up the country’s use of clean energy to help spur growth in the US economy, in his State of the Union Address last night.

  • Date:
    04 January 2012
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    Clean Revolution leader: The City of New York

    We have selected an initial set of eight success stories which illustrate the emerging global leadership of the Clean Revolution, and are presented on TheCleanRevolution.org. One of these Clean Revolution leaders is New York City, where the buildings that make up its iconic skyline are currently being made greener to further cut the city's carbon emissions.

  • Date:
    23 December 2011
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    Post-COP17 Briefing: Damian Ryan and our global policy staff on the key outcomes

    Download the full Post-COP17 Briefing, which marks the end of Damian Ryan's coverage of COP17 in Durban, and features country perspectives from our global policy staff in Australia, China, Europe, India and the US.

  • Date:
    09 December 2011
    Location:

    COP17 Daily: Thursday December 8

    The penultimate day of COP17 witnesses the usual frantic activity associated with the last 48 hours of every annual climate conference, as Damian Ryan, Senior Policy Manager, The Climate Group provides his daily round-up of the news from the second week of COP17 in Durban.

  • Date:
    04 December 2011
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    COP17: Week one summary

    As part of our involvement in COP17, Damian Ryan our Senior Policy Manager, will be providing daily news and analysis, and live tweeting from Durban. This is his summary of the key issues and emerging developments of COP17's first week.

  • Date:
    22 November 2011
    Location:

    COP17: US will build on Cancun, but hampered by domestic constraints

    Evan Juska, The Climate Group’s Head of US Policy, takes a look at the US negotiating position heading into COP17 in Durban next week. This is the first in a series of articles from our international policy staff looking at the position of key countries in the UN climate talks.

  • Date:
    23 September 2011
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    Climate Week NYC 2011 in review

    From 19-26 September 2011, New York City hosted Climate Week NYC 2011, the annual summit boasting high-level meetings between the world’s leading businesses and governments and an exciting array of public-facing events, all focused on driving a Clean Revolution.

  • Date:
    21 September 2011
    Location:

    EV leaders New York State and Quebec share expertise

    Practitioners from city, state and provincial governments in both New York State and Québec as well as representatives from power utilities, discussed the push underway to support the development and more widespread use of electric vehicles, during a Climate Week NYC event held last night in New York.

  • Date:
    19 September 2011
    Location:

    Clean Revolution launched at Climate Week NYC

    Today The Climate Group launched the three-year Clean Revolution campaign during the Opening Ceremony of Climate Week NYC, the annual global forum which aims to mobilize an international public-private response to climate change.

  • Date:
    16 September 2011
    Location:

    Record number of events confirmed for Climate Week NYC 2011

    This year's Climate Week NYC, the annual summit boasting high-level meetings between the world’s leading businesses and governments and a diverse array of public-facing events, has a record number of events: here is a hand-picked list of just some of them.

  • Date:
    14 September 2011
    Location:

    Small step forward for CCS in the US

    Rupert Posner, Global Director of Energy, The Climate Group, blogs for GCCSI about the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) recent proposal on a new rule exempting carbon dioxide streams from hazardous waste regulations under certain conditions, which will help drive the roll-out of CCS in the US.

  • Date:
    24 August 2011
    Location:

    Countdown to Climate Week NYC

    From 19-26 September 2011 – less than 70 days before the United Nations’ climate summit in Durban and in the critical run-up to Rio +20 – New York City will once again become the epicenter of the Clean Revolution.

  • Date:
    12 August 2011
    Location:

    Clean Revolution Leadership baton change in California

    California Governor Jerry Brown has appointed Chief Deputy Attorney General, Matt Rodriquez, to replace Linda Adams as Secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and continue the State’s inspiring leadership in the Clean Revolution.

  • Date:
    02 August 2011
    Location:

    Obama and car makers agree new fuel efficiency standards

    President Obama has announced the next crucial phase in the fuel efficiency standards, which have been agreed with leading car makers to increase fuel efficiency and reduce the greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted from all new vehicles sold in the US.

  • Date:
    01 July 2011
    Location:

    Adopt smart grids to foster innovation and jobs

    Molly Webb, Head of Smart Technologies, The Climate Group writes for the Guardian Professional Network on smart grids enabling a clean energy future and issues around energy data in the US.

  • Date:
    29 June 2011
    Location:

    Google reveals huge GDP value of clean energy innovation in US

    Google has published a study, The Impact of Clean Energy Innovation’ and an associated website, which reveals that innovation in clean energy technology in the US can significantly cut greenhouse gases (GHGs), boost GDP and create over 1 million jobs.

  • Date:
    17 June 2011
    Location:

    North America leading with innovative climate policies

    The Climate Group North America is pleased to present our latest report Leading the Way: Policy Design for a Clean Revolution, which showcases the tremendous progress made by cities, states and regions across North America that are leading the Clean Revolution with innovative climate policies.

  • Date:
    13 June 2011
    Location:

    US Administration's call for consumer access to energy data welcomed

    Obama administration officials have announced a series of measures to make energy information readily accessible to consumers and promote innovation in the energy sector as part of a broader effort to modernize the U.S. electricity grid, which is welcomed by The Climate Group.

  • Date:
    27 May 2011
    Location:

    Leading The Clean Revolution

    The Climate Group held its 4th annual North America Members Meeting on May 18 and 19 at Nike World Headquarters just outside of Portland, Oregon. This unique session, open to The Climate Group’s members and partners around the globe, brought together more than 30 corporate and government members for two days of candid discussions about the low carbon economy.

  • Date:
    13 May 2011
    Location:

    S&ED: Six new US-China EcoPartnerships announced

    From May 9-10, 2011, leading officials from China and the US met in Washington for the third annual US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED), to discuss major bilateral, regional and global issues, including climate change, clean energy and low carbon growth, in particular, expansion of the EcoPartnerships.

  • Date:
    03 May 2011
    Location:

    Clear policy drives significant CCS project in Canada

    Last week the government of Saskatchewan, part of Canada’s Western Provinces, announced it had approved construction of one of the world's early commercial-scale carbon capture and storage facilities. Rupert Posner, Global Director of Energy, The Climate Group comments.

  • Date:
    28 April 2011
    Location:

    Climate legislation advancing in 16 leading countries

    According to a study by Global Legislators Organisation (GLOBE) published last week, in the last 18 months the world’s leading economies have rapidly developed their climate change legislation, collectively helping to advance a global Clean Revolution.

  • Date:
    01 April 2011
    Location:

    Obama energy blueprint includes green fleets

    In a major speech on energy this week President Obama said he wanted the US to pick up the pace on clean energy investment, noting how the country has slid behind China and Germany. Amy Davidsen, US Director, The Climate Group comments on this positive new direction.

  • Date:
    15 February 2011
    Location:

    Budget debate offers “different visions” for US energy future

    On Monday, President Obama released a fiscal 2012 budget that House Republicans hope to trim vis-a vis clean energy funding. The Climate Group lays out some of the implications behind the two proposals which reveal different views on US energy future.

  • Date:
    27 January 2011
    Location:

    To achieve Obama’s clean-energy future, commitments must follow

    In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, speaking to a divided US Congress, President Obama laid out his vision for reviving the US economy.

  • Date:
    10 December 2010
    Location:

    COP16 report: A slow day for observers

    With a lack of information filtering out of the very private ministerial discussions on Thursday, Damian Ryan, Senior Policy Manager at The Climate Group, took part in an interesting side event that discussed the national security implications of climate change.

  • Date:
    30 November 2010
    Location:

    The Climate Group welcomes EPA regulations on safety of CO2 capture and storage

    On 22 November 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized two rules that regulate the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2).

  • Date:
    05 November 2010
    Location:

    US Midterm Elections: Economy and Environment

    In the wake of the U.S. midterm elections, Evan Juska, Senior Policy Manager at The Climate Group, discusses the implications of a Republican-controlled House on the long-term prospects for the country’s energy and climate agenda as well as California’s decision on the fate of a state climate law.

  • Date:
    13 September 2010
    Location:

    California must continue to lead on clean energy

    Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Group, argues for California's leadership on clean energy innovation in the San Francisco Chronicle.

  • Date:
    23 July 2010
    Location:

    US Senate Delays Energy Bill

    After meeting with the Democratic caucus on Thursday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that the Senate will not consider an energy and climate bill this month, and instead will focus on a bill to address the oil spill.

  • Date:
    16 July 2010
    Location:

    Reid's Senate bill seeks to cap speculation on US clean energy future

    On Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) outlined four components of the upcoming energy bill in the Senate: addressing the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, promoting clean energy, increasing energy efficiency, and limiting pollution from the power sector.

  • Date:
    28 May 2010
    Location:

    The Beginning of the End of Our Oil Addiction



    Amy Davidsen, Executive Director of The Climate Group in the US, writes an op-ed on the introduction of a legislation to scale up the use of electric vehicles in the US.

  • Date:
    12 May 2010
    Location:

    US Climate Bill to pave the way for clean technology

    US Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman today unveiled their long-awaited climate and energy bill...

  • Date:
    30 April 2010
    Location:

    Progress on Climate Bill is Still Possible

    US Climate bill: The way forward on Climate Policy

  • Date:
    27 April 2010
    Location:

    US Climate Bill delayed – US jobs hang in the balance

    The plan to introduce a new, bi-partisan climate and energy bill on Monday was delayed due to a disagreement over which issue the Senate should address first...

  • Date:
    06 April 2010
    Location:

    Google and The Climate Group ask Obama to support revolution in home energy use

    A letter was sent to President Obama yesterday, asking for his Administration to adopt the goal of giving every household and business access to timely, useful and actionable information on their energy use.

  • Date:
    01 April 2010
    Location:

    Obama's expansion of offshore drilling - is it a necessary price to pay?

    Yesterday, US President Barack Obama announced a proposal to open waters along three US shorelines (Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska) to drilling for oil and natural gas - ending a longstanding moratorium on exploration along the Eastern coast of the United States.

  • Date:
    24 March 2010
    Location:

    The US Needs to Price Carbon - and Soon

    Amidst one of the most partisan political climates of this generation and conventional wisdom that insists US climate and energy policy is dead, Senators Kerry (D-MA), Graham (R-SC), and Lieberman (I-CT) will present their new, tri-partisan climate and energy bill to fellow Senators this week.

  • Date:
    18 March 2010
    Location:

    US Broadband Plan: Rewired for a clean energy economy

    This week, the US Federal Communications Commission sent the National Broadband Plan to the White House. It puts a better communications infrastructure at the heart of solutions to multiple societal challenges, including energy and climate change.

  • Date:
    29 January 2010
    Location:

    The Answer is Clean Energy Jobs. (No, really)

    Amy Davidsen writes op-ed on the answer for the economy's woes: clean energy jobs.

  • Date:
    28 January 2010
    Location:

    Obama: "We need to encourage American innovation"

    In the State of the Union address on Wednesday night, President Obama made creating jobs his priority for 2010. He emphasized the need to create new clean energy jobs - "building clean energy facilities" and "manufacturing clean energy products".

  • Date:
    28 January 2010
    Location:

    US climate and energy policy could boost jobs and revenue growth in Midwest manufacturing, says new report

    A new report by The Climate Group and The University of Michigan finds significant potential for job creation and revenue growth in the Midwest over the next five years from the manufacture of three low-carbon technologies...

  • Date:
    17 December 2009
    Location:

    US support for $100 billion Global Climate Fund shows consensus is emerging

    The United States today announced in Copenhagen that they would contribute to the $100 billion per year needed by 2020 to help developing countries adapt to climate change...

  • Date:
    15 December 2009
    Location:

    The Planetary Skin Institute: unprecedented global collaboration to sense, predict and act on the complex challenges of the 21st Century

    The Planetary Skin Institute was launched today as a unique cross-sectoral collaboration aims to research and develop near to real-time monitoring of global environmental conditions and changes. This move embodies an unprecedented level of collaboration between the public, private, NGO and academic sectors to meet the major environmental challenges facing the world.

  • Date:
    07 December 2009
    Location:

    US EPA finalizes "endangerment finding"

    The decision enables the EPA to move forward with regulations that would limit greenhouse gas emissions from cars and large industrial sources, without new Congressional legislation.

  • Date:
    04 December 2009
    Location:

    Clean energy conservatives can embrace

    Conservatives champion the essential characteristics of America: liberty, enterprise and ingenuity. As world leaders consider how to transform the way we make and use energy in the face of a changing climate, it's time for an energy policy true to that spirit -- and it shouldn't be anathema to the American right.

  • Date:
    26 November 2009
    Location:

    TCG welcomes new pledges from China and US - now all countries must up their game

    After their historic meeting last week, both President Hu and President Obama have now come forward with real targets that can serve as the basis for further negotiations in Copenhagen", said Mark Kenber, The Climate Group's Policy Director. The key now is to use this as the basis for an ambitious binding global agreement that sends a clear signal to investors that the world is firmly on a low carbon path.

  • Date:
    25 November 2009
    Location:

    Obama's attendance at Copenhagen "an important gesture"

    "While Obama has said that climate change is a priority for his Administration, his attendance in Copenhagen will underscore his commitment to driving investment into low carbon technologies," says The Climate Group's US Director, Amy Davidsen.

Events

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  • Date:
    17 June 2012 - 22 June 2012 
    Location:
    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Rio+20 Earth Summit 2012

    The Climate Group will be at the Rio+20 Earth Summit to showcase The Clean Revolution. Find out more soon.

  • Date:
    25 September 2011 - 26 September 2011 
    Location:
    New York City

    Climate Week NYC

    From September 19 - 26 2011 business, government, NGO and thought leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC 2011 to call for a Clean Revolution, one that ensures growth, creates jobs, and secures clean energy access for millions of people worldwide.

  • Date:
    24 September 2011 - 26 September 2011 
    Location:
    New York City

    Climate Week NYC

    From September 19 - 26 2011 business, government, NGO and thought leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC 2011 to call for a Clean Revolution, one that ensures growth, creates jobs, and secures clean energy access for millions of people worldwide.

  • Date:
    23 September 2011 - 26 September 2011 
    Location:
    New York City

    Climate Week NYC

    From September 19 - 26 2011 business, government, NGO and thought leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC 2011 to call for a Clean Revolution, one that ensures growth, creates jobs, and secures clean energy access for millions of people worldwide.

  • Date:
    22 September 2011 - 26 September 2011 
    Location:
    New York City

    Climate Week NYC

    From September 19 - 26 2011 business, government, NGO and thought leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC 2011 to call for a Clean Revolution, one that ensures growth, creates jobs, and secures clean energy access for millions of people worldwide.

  • Date:
    21 September 2011 - 26 September 2011 
    Location:
    New York City

    Climate Week NYC

    From September 19 - 26 2011 business, government, NGO and thought leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC 2011 to call for a Clean Revolution, one that ensures growth, creates jobs, and secures clean energy access for millions of people worldwide.

  • Date:
    20 September 2011 - 26 September 2011 
    Location:
    New York City

    Climate Week NYC

    From September 19 - 26 2011 business, government, NGO and thought leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC 2011 to call for a Clean Revolution, one that ensures growth, creates jobs, and secures clean energy access for millions of people worldwide.

  • Date:
    19 September 2011 - 26 September 2011 
    Location:
    New York City

    Climate Week NYC

    From September 19 - 26 2011 business, government, NGO and thought leaders will come together at Climate Week NYC 2011 to call for a Clean Revolution, one that ensures growth, creates jobs, and secures clean energy access for millions of people worldwide.

Blogs

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Interviews

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  • Michael R. Bloomberg

    Date:
    04 January 2012

    Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, looks back at the city's proudest achievements to date, explains the driving forces behind his climate leadership role and shares exactly how he got the wider business community to back his innovative plans.

  • Mary Nichols

    Date:
    14 June 2011

    Mary D. Nichols is Chairman of the California Air Resources Board. Mary talks to The Climate Group about the leadership of sub-national governments in implementing low-carbon policies, how these can create growth AND jobs and the importance of involving the business community.

  • Stanley "Skip" Pruss on Michigan's Clean Energy Future

    Date:
    29 January 2010

    Stanley "Skip" Pruss, Chief Energy Officer and Director of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth for the state of Michigan, recently discussed with us how clean energy technologies figure into the state's economic revitalization plans.

Publications

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  • Leading the Way: Policy Design for a Clean Revolution 14 June 2011

    Date:
    14 June 2011

    Leading the Way: Policy Design for a Clean Revolution, provides detailed case studies on the implementation of unique and effective policy design elements in North America. The report shows how state policies designed to reduce GHG emissions matter and demonstrates the key elements to successful implementation, to ultimately inspire more local government leaders to work together with us to accelerate the Clean Revolution.

  • American Innovation: Manufacturing Low Carbon Technologies in the Midwest 28 January 2010

    Date:
    28 January 2010

    This report estimates the economic impact that climate and energy policies would have on low-carbon manufacturing sectors in the Midwest (US), showing potential for significant job and revenue growth.