[…] “The choice we face is not between simply continuing with business as usual and a somewhat cleaner, greener future,” Todd Stern, the State Department’s special envoy for climate change, said in prepared congressional testimony November 4. “If we continue on our high carbon and high emissions pathway.

[…] Warm thanks to the Kyoto Club for the invitation to come here. It is very appropriate to be discussing the climate challenge in the context of a clean technology event, because innovation in low-carbon technology is absolutely key to addressing the climate challenge.

[…] Speaking at Florida Power and Light’s (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, President Barack Obama today announced the largest single energy grid modernization investment in U.S. history, funding a broad range of technologies that will spur the nation’s transition to a smarter, stronger, more efficient and reliable electric system.

[…] Well, first of all, let me thank Lew Hay and his visionary leadership at Florida Power & Light. It’s an example of a company that is doing well by doing good. And I think it’s a model for what we could duplicate all across the country. To Greg Bove, who just gave me the tour and was a construction manager for this facility, congratulations. We’ve got a couple of special guests here: Representative Kathy Castor from Tampa, a great friend. Arcadia Mayor Dr. Roosevelt Johnson. And State Representative Keith Fitzgerald from Sarasota.

[…] Speaking October 21 at the Washington-based U.S. Institute of Peace, Clinton said a reinvigorated Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will better help realize the twin goals of guaranteeing that all countries have access to nuclear fuel and “the peaceful benefits of nuclear energy,” while also “providing incentives for them not to build their own enrichment or reprocessing facilities,” which could also produce nuclear weapons.

[…] Mercoledì 30 settembre, a Washington D.C., il Segretario USA dell’Energia Steven Chu e il Ministro italiano dello Sviluppo Economico Claudio Scajola hanno siglato due importanti accordi sull’energia nucleare che potranno portare alla realizzazione di nuove centrali nucleari e migliorare la collaborazione sui sistemi avanzati di energia nucleare e sulle tecnologie per il ciclo di combustibile in entrambi i Paesi.

[…] Il Presidente Obama ha affermato che gli Stati Uniti devono svolgere un ruolo di guida nell’azione mondiale contro i cambiamenti climatici. Siamo consapevoli che una soluzione a questo problema è impossibile senza una riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra da parte degli Stati Uniti e per questo intendiamo guidare il processo di trasformazione verso un’economia del XXI secolo basata sull’energia pulita.

[…] Scott Sklar is founder and president of The Stella Group, Ltd., a strategic marketing and policy firm for clean distributed energy companies. These companies deal with advanced batteries and controls, energy efficiency, fuel cells, heat engines, minigeneration (natural gas), microhydropower, modular biomass, photovoltaics, small wind, and solar thermal (including daylighting, water heating, industrial preheat, building air-conditioning, and electric power generation).

[…] Innovazione, mercati e relazioni internazionali accelerano verso tecnologie per la produzione di energie pulite. Un workshop per confrontare esempi di progetti bilaterali tra Italia e Usa. Le risposte alla questione energetica corrono su due vie strettamente interconnesse tra di loro. Da una parte sono legate alla ricerca e ai modi con cui le innovazioni riescono a trovare spazio sul mercato, dall'altra richiedono un respiro che non può limitarsi ai confini nazionali, ma deve necessariamente poggiare su collaborazioni internazionali.

[…] We, the leaders of Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States met as the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate in L’Aquila, Italy, on July 9, 2009, and declare as follows: Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. As leaders of the world’s major economies, both developed and developing, we intend to respond vigorously to this challenge, being convinced that climate change poses a clear danger requiring an extraordinary global response, that the response should respect the priority of economic and social development of developing countries […]

[…] MR. KELLY: Well, good morning. Welcome to the briefing room. We’re very pleased to have with us today Todd Stern, Special Envoy for Climate Change. Mr. Stern was appointed by Secretary Clinton on January 26. He served in the White House from 1993 to 1999, where he worked on these kinds of issues, issues of climate change. Also from 1999 to 2001, he advised the Secretary of Treasury on the policy and politics of a broad range of economic and financial issues.