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Global Climate Network G20 Press Conference

25 September 2009

Energy experts from the Global Climate Network are meeting blocks away from this week's G-20 meetings to launch the interim findings of an ongoing GCN study, Creating Opportunity: Low-Carbon Jobs in an Interconnected World. The study argues that governments stand to beneft from the creation of tens of millions of new jobs in a new global low-carbon economy, but only if they invest in climate-friendly innovations and industries and drive coordinated policies to create and sustain markets for clean-energy technology.

Participants will also talk about the current energy profile of U.S. climate legislation and the potential for U.S.-China cooperation on carbon capture and sequestration.

Participants include:

• Andrew Light, Senior Fellow and Coordinator of International Climate Policy, Center for American Progress
• Andrew Pendleton, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Public Policy Research and Coordinator of the Global Climate Network
• Joe Romm, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress and Editor, ClimateProgress.org

The conference is taking place at:

The August Wilson Center
G20 Media Center
980 Liberty Ave
Pittsburgh, PA, 15222

All press arriving at the Wilson Center will be escorted to the Media Center for the press conference.