These are the slides for a lecture by Bill Becker.  It was delivered at a Tomorrow's Company event at the East India Club on the 3rd of December.  For more about the event read Tony Manwaring's, our CEO's, blog here or visit their corporate website www.tomorrowscompany.com.

(Washington, February 9, 2009) – Over 50 of the world’s leading scientists, China experts, political and business leaders recommend immediate action to create a new, groundbreaking collaboration with China to address the urgent issue of climate change.  In a report released today by Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations and the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, these leading figures provide the Obama administration a new policy roadmap for immediate action with China.

Newly elected U.S. President Barack Obama has quickly turned his attention to his “green agenda”. With his speech from the White House on January 26 and an economic stimulus package approved by Congress with approximately US$70 billion of funding and tax breaks for green technologies and energy efficiency improvements, Obama has started his presidency with the clear intention of transforming the use and generation of electricity in the U.S. Linklaters provide this brief summary on the structure of Obama's plans.

These slides are from one of our events looking at the prospect for 'green jobs' in America – they include a progress report after the first months of the Obama Administration, a discussion of the recently announced stimulus package, and an exploration into whether building the green economy has to be put off until the recession is over, or if it is the surest route to a sustainable recovery.   Bill Becker was the lead author of the Presidential Climate Action Plan (PCAP), which was presented to the Obama transition team. This two years/$2 million research programme involved many of America's leading policy and climate science experts, and offers 180 policy recommendations across 18 critical topic areas.  www.climateactionproject.com/plan