Renewable & Clean Energy

NEW WEBCAST: Special Envoy to the EU C. Boyden Gray discusses climate change developments and U.S. policy in a webcast the week of the April 16-18 Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Climate Change in Paris. More

At the three-day Washington International Conference on Renewable Energy (WIREC), participants from public, corporate and private sectors repeatedly stressed the importance of quickly harnessing the earth’s sustainable natural resources for energy. Global warming is an increasing threat and its effects will worsen if damaging greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed. And, with oil hovering around $100 a barrel, there is even greater impetus for oil-dependent nations such as the United States to go green. When President Bush addressed delegates of more than 100 nations on March 4, he picked up the theme, saying developing clean technologies was vital for security and environmental reasons.

2008: Webcast: Five Myths and Misperceptions about the U.S. and Environmental Protection with Bill Cline, Global Environment Team Leader, U.S. Foreign Commercial Service (Apr 28, 2008) | Expert Discusses Renewable Energy, Exploring New Ideas (Mar 21, 2008) | Renewable Resources Are Rising Stars (Mar 5, 2008) (Bush Remarks) | Fact Sheet: Investment in Renewable and Alternative Energy Technologies | Pictures/Summaries | State's Negroponte Discusses Energy Security, Climate at Renewables Conference (Mar 4, 2008) | Renewable Energy Meeting Draws Policymakers, Business Partners (Feb 29, 2008) |  Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (Mar 4-6, 2008) (Media Registration) | California Sets Ambitious Renewable Energy Goals (Feb 8, 2008) | Increasing U.S. Energy Security and Confronting Climate Change (State of the Union Fact Sheet, Jan 28, 2008)

President Bush and German Chancellor Merkel hold a joint press conference at the White House on Janauary 4, 2007. White House photo by Paul Morse.After a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House on January 4, 2007, President Bush said he has been “going full steam ahead” in promoting new technologies designed to promote energy efficiency and that he is committed to “do a better job of protecting the world's environment.” Germany, which currently holds the EU Council Presidency, will also host the 2007 Group of Eight (G8) summit, and Merkel said there she plans to discuss economic growth and its relation to climate change. “On the one hand, we obviously need economic growth. But on the other hand, a reduction, also, of greenhouse gases,” she said. The German chancellor said she was delighted that the United States is ready to work with the Europeans on the issue. “We were at one on this,” she said, adding there is “a wide scope for further talks” on the issue of energy efficiency, including cooperation on biofuels and new technologies.

2007: U.S. Hosts Major Economies Meeting on Energy, Climate Change (Sep 27, 2007) | Amb. Gray Discusses U.S.-EU Economic Issues after Bush, Barroso, Merkel Meetings (Jan 9, 2007) | Bush Optimistic on Achieving WTO Trade Deal (Jan 5, 2007)

2006: U.S. and EU Renew Agreement on International Energy Efficiency (Dec 20, 2006) | EU, U.S. to Continue Climate, Energy and Sustainable Development Dialogue (Oct 25, 2006) | U.S., European Environmental Policies Focus on Technology Advances (Oct 23, 2006) (Transcript of Online Discussion) | U.S., EC To Hold First High-Level Dialogue on Energy, Development, Climate (Oct 20, 2006) | U.S.-EU Summit Declaration (Jun 21, 2006) and 2006 U.S.-EU Summit Progress Report on the Economic Initiative | Bush Sets Alternative Energy Goals (Feb 1, 2006)

2005: Bush Urges International Collaboration on Clean Energy (Apr 27, 2005)

2004: Renewable Energy Must Be More Competitive, U.S. Says (Jun 4, 2004) | United States, United Kingdom Enhance Clean Energy Partnerships (May 21, 2004)

2003: U.S. to Fund Study for Czech Renewable Energy Project (Feb 27, 2003)