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The Global Climate Network in Washington DC: 20-22 July 2010

The Global Climate Network was recently in Washington DC for its third annual strategy meeting.

On the eve of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s decision to indefinitely postpone the passage of a climate bill through the US Senate, GCN representatives from India, China, South Africa and the UK told a high-level Capitol Hill audience that the rest of the world is waiting on the US to exercise leadership on climate change and help spur the global transition to clean energy and climate-friendly growth. The event, ‘Why the world needs US Climate Action’, was hosted and co-sponsored by Center for American Progress, the GCN’s US partner.

GCN members also attended the first Clean Energy Ministerial convened by US Energy Secretary Steven Chu on 19-20 July. The meeting, which drew the participation of over twenty energy ministers from leading economies, launched a number of global partnership initiatives on, inter alia, clean energy deployment, energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS), and global energy access.

NEW: Read a summary report of the GCN's event 'Why the world needs US Climate Action’

NEW: Watch the full video of this event here 

 

ABOUT US

Bright ideas are the foundation stones of prosperity. They will also help us build a future free from carbon.

The Global Climate Network is an alliance of nine influential, progressive think tanks located in countries where action on climate change really matters. We bring together some of the world’s brightest brains to propose progressive solutions to climate change that will also help lay the foundations for a new era of prosperity.

Our focus is on policy. We will work with decision makers on innovations that help clear space for progressive action on climate change. Each of us enjoys international renown, but understands that domestic change is the key to successful global action.

We think that climate change policy has to be led by governments, acting independently and together. But because each of us is well connected domestically, we understand that governments as yet do not have the political space to implement the depth of policies needed.

We are committed to producing high-quality research and bright policy ideas that help governments link climate change policy with human and economic progress, including with poverty eradication. Our focus is therefore on technological progress, economic development and policies that reduce not entrench inequality.

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