With budget-cutting all the rage in Washington, and the seemingly inviolable Defense Department budget facing cuts, it would not seem a propitious time for the Pentagon to launch an ambitious clean energy agenda. On October 21, at Climate One, two experts – one posted at, and one outside, the Pentagon – argued that DOD’s clean energy programs improve the military’s war-fighting capability and should escape the budget ax.
10/17/2011
Red Alert: China Time, China Scale
China exerts an inescapable gravitation pull on the climate and energy debate – its economic growth is so brisk, its emissions so copious that no call for action on climate change can ignore the country. The four China watchers gathered at Climate One on October 12 debated the motives for, and the implications of, China’s domestic climate action, particularly its abundant clean energy investments.
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