Dec

8

At White House Meeting, Duke Energy CEO Says Passing Climate Change Legislation Key to Creating Jobs

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At a White House meeting with President Obama today, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers said: “Passing climate change legislation will give us the ‘rules of the road’ needed to invest in clean energy to put more people to work.”

Rogers, head of America’s third-largest electric utility, joined Obama and leaders from the U.S. energy, environment and labor sectors to discuss the role of climate change legislation in stimulating new energy technologies and jobs. Read more

Jun

24

New Report Finds 5 Million Jobs, 5-7 Billion Tons in CO2 Reductions Can Be Achieved By 2020

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First-of-its-Kind Report by Leading Clean Technology CEOs, Venture Capitalists and Academics Identifies How to Reduce a Billion Tons of CO2 from Each of Eight Existing Industries, Add Millions More Jobs than Fossil Fuel Industries, and Ensure Energy Independence

In a presentation before national policymakers and analysts today, leading clean energy CEOs, venture capitalists and academics unveiled the “Gigaton Throwdown,” an assessment of the nation’s clean energy potential that identifies seven industries capable of creating 5 million clean energy jobs and reducing CO2 emissions by 5-7 gigatons by 2020. The report, a collaborative effort between leading researchers at UC Berkeley, MIT, University of Michigan, Stanford, and Drexel University, and clean tech leaders, challenges Washington policymakers to remove obstacles that keep billions of capital investment dollars sitting on the sidelines.

“What we’ve outlined today is an ambitious goal, but one that is entirely attainable through hard work and a concerted effort between government, business and private investment,” said Sunil Paul, founder of the Gigaton Throwdown and founding director of Spring Ventures. “We are at a crossroads, and the U.S. has an opportunity to become a leader in this new global sector if we act now. To us the choice is clear.” Read more