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While the United States is competing for leadership in energy innovation, we have much to gain by cooperating with China. Together, we can develop and test new technologies, accelerate their deployment, and bring down their costs. We can boost exports and create new jobs…And we can build a sustainable energy future for the U.S., for China and for the world

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The negotiations are attempting to strengthen an international structure to reduce climate change. And along the way, countries are highlighting the actions they are taking at home to put clean energy in place. But hidden in the shadows are the actions still going on that promote the dirty energy economy – one that is dependent on ever higher-carbon sources of fossil fuels such as tar sands oil from Canada

Two points worth mentioning, from Dr. Holdren’s presentation, are that the two countries are test beds for each other’s new energy technologies, and that the cooperation and competition inherent in the relationship are complementary, contributing to even greater innovation by both countries. At the working group on renewable energy, the discussion moved beyond what to innovate, instead grappling with how to innovate. In a rapidly changing economy such as China’s, companies thrive by innovation, and thus it was not surprising to hear about some of the enterprising new US-China energy deals announced, such as American Electric Power evaluating carbon capture technology from China Huaneng, and AES expanding wind operations into Western China with Chongqing Energy Investment Group

Today, First Lady Michelle Obama also addressed a packed auditorium of American students two miles to the north on the benefits of U.S.-China educational exchanges, reiterating the goals of the 100,000 strong initiative, aiming to send 100,000 Americans to study in China over the next four years: “It’s not just about whether you can compete with your peers in other countries to make America stronger. It’s also about whether you can come together, and work together with them to make our world stronger

Innovators are creating these solutions right now, but the government can help unleash their full potential. President Obama reminded us that from the transcontinental railroad to the Internet, government incentives and research funds have brought our nation tremendous benefits. The president pledged to spur our nation’s best minds to do the same with clean energy

In the end, this is why the clean energy future can deliver what Americans are looking for. The same solutions that cut carbon pollution also create jobs, enhance national security, and sharpen our advantage in global markets. They also protect our children from respiratory illness and decrease our reliance on foreign oil. They provide a vision our divided nation can rally around

In particular, the United States is in the middle of making a decision that will have an enormous impact on tar sands oil expansion. The same State Department that in Cancún is debating ways to fight climate change, is seriously considering granting a permit to the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. How can the State Department reconcile a commitment to fight climate change and to promote clean energy with issuing a permit that will cause expansion of the environmentally destructive and high-carbon tar sands? The simple fact is that tar sands and clean energy do not fit together. A world in which we are moving towards clean energy must be a world in which we are moving away from dirty fuels such as tar sands

The three US-China Clean Energy Research Centers also finalized their work plans during the conference. NRDC is a member of the building energy efficiency consortium, and as my colleague Barbara Finamore pointed out, energy efficiency is one of the most promising areas of bi-lateral cooperation. This summary of clean energy cooperation by DOE touches upon some key points of government-led public-public and public-private partnerships

Specifically, the poll showed that 57.8% of Chileans are against hydroelectric development in Patagonia, 31.1% are in favor, and 8.3% are undecided. Over the last two years, popular sentiment against the dams has grown. The percentage of people against hydroelectric development in Patagonia is the highest ever since Ipsos – one of the largest public opinion survey companies in the world—started asking this question in Chile in 2008

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It is time for the United States to lead us away from dirty, high-carbon fuels such as tar sands. Especially now that the United States has not yet passed a climate law – the world is watching what other action we take on clean energy and climate change. It is time for us to lead by making it clear that dirty fuels such as tar sands do not fit in a world where curbing climate change is the top priority for our security, safety and health

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Let’s put the facts about tar sands and this proposed tar sands pipeline on the table. The extraction of tar sands destroys Canada’s Boreal forests and wetlands, depletes precious watersheds, pollutes air and water, creates vast expanses of toxic waste holding dams, and uses a lot of energy causing high greenhouse gas emissions. Tar sands pipelines are at higher risk of ruptures and leaks due to carrying a more corrosive substance than conventional oil. The proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is little better than a pollution delivery system to the United States, putting the sensitive Nebraska sand hills and the Ogallala Aquifer (the source of freshwater for America’s heartland) at risk and bringing tar sands to refineries in areas of the United States already burdened with pollution from the oil industry

I applaud the president’s ambitious goals in striving to boost clean energy generation in the United States. Many states have already achieved impressive gains with their own clean energy targets—targets that have attracted private investment and generated jobs. But the specifics are important. A true clean energy standard will foster more renewable electricity and energy efficiency and encourage us to leave behind old, dirty technologies we’ve propped up for too long already