United States policy on Climate Change and Clean Energy: a Dossier

Key U.S. Policy Priorities

Fact Sheet: Taking Additional Action to Confront Climate Change On April 16, 2008, President Bush announced a new national goal to stop the growth in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. We Cannot Make Progress Confronting Climate Change Without Concerted Action By All Major Economies There Is A Right Way And A Wrong Way To Approach Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions The Administration Calls On All Nations To Help Spark A Global Clean Energy Revolution In The Long-Run, New Technologies Are The Key To Addressing Climate Change

Our guiding principle is clear: we must lead the world to produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions, and we must do it in a way that does not undermine economic growth or prevent nations from delivering greater prosperity for their people. President Bush, Sep. 28, 2007 during the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change

There is growing awareness and concern in the United States about variations in global climate and the recent rise in average surface temperatures, also known as global warming. These changes reflect both natural processes and the impact of human activity. Click on this link to retrieve recent statements on greenhouse gas reduction. 

The U.S. government believes they are serious, long-term challenges that require a policy devoted to emissions reductions and clean, sustainable energy development. Click on this link to retrieve recent statements on Ethanol. Click on this link to retrieve recent statements on Hydrogen. 

The United States is meeting these challenges with comprehensive, science-based strategies that promote innovative technological breakthroughs, harness the power of markets, and encourage global participation and international collaboration.

The United States will work with other countries to establish a new international framework to address global climate change once the Kyoto Protocol expires in 2012. Under an initiative unveiled May 31 by President Bush, 10 to 15 countries that consumer the most energy and emit the largest quantities of greenhouse gases would discuss a post-Kyoto arrangement at international meetings convened initially by the United States. By 2009, at the end of the first phase, the countries would set a long-term global goal for reducing emissions that contribute to global climate change and establish related national mid-term energy security and environmental goals and strategies based on the nations’ individual characteristics.
 

Major US Government Statements

A select list of major statements On the United States and Iraq with policy value.

• Remarks by President Bush on Climate Change (2008-04-16)
• Bush Remarks at Renewable Energy Conference in Washington (2008-03-06)    
• State's Volker Discusses a New Framework for Combating Climate Change (2008-01-24)
• U.S. Statement on Bali Climate Change Conference (2007-12-17)  
• President Bush Participates in Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change (2007-10-01)

Latest US Government Statements

The five most recent statements in reverse chronological order. 

• Changing Climate Could Alter Biology of Infectious Diseases (2008-05-14)
• Statement on U.S.-Russia Nuclear Energy Agreement (2008-05-06)
• United States, Russia Sign Civil Nuclear Pact (2008-05-06)
• Social Entrepreneurs Target Climate Change (2008-04-28)
• Analyst Elliot Diringer Addresses Global Climate Crisis (2008-04-24)

US Government Fact Sheets

The five most recent fact sheets.

• Taking Additional Action To Confront Climate Change (2008-04-17)
• U.S. Global Engagement on Climate Change and Public Health (2008-03-28)  
• Investment in Renewable and Alternative Energy Technologies (2008-03-05)
• Increasing U.S. Energy Security and Confronting Climate Change (2008-01-28)
• U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (2007-12-20)