[…] Conference on Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas The Secretary of State’s Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, David Goldwyn, will give remarks at a conference on the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA) on Tuesday, April 6, at 1:00 p.m. at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), B1 Conference Center, 1800 K Street, NW.

[…] The reprocessing arrangement was negotiated under the 2008 U.S.-India nuclear initiative, known as a 123 Agreement. India will be able to reprocess U.S.-originated nuclear material under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. Completion of these arrangements will ease participation by U.S. firms in India’s civil nuclear energy sector, estimated to be worth approximately $150 billion.

[…] The Government of the United States of America and the Government of India (hereinafter “the Parties”), pursuant to the Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, with Agreed Minute, signed at Washington, on October 10, 2008 (“the Agreement for Cooperation”), which entered into force on December 6, 2008

[…] Vice President Biden says the United States will do everything in its power to keep nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists or spreading to states that do not already have them. But Biden also emphasized that the United States recognizes that as its own technology improves, researchers are developing non-nuclear ways to deter potential adversaries without relying on the nuclear weapons deterrence that characterized the Cold War period of the 20th century.

[…] U.S. President Barack Obama says the government will guarantee more than $8 billion in loans to help build the first new American nuclear power plant in decades.
The project is expected to produce roughly 4000 new jobs. The president says clean, safe nuclear power is vital to the nation's future.

“To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we will need to increase our supply of nuclear power. It is that simple,” he said.

[…] The Copenhagen Accord does not go as far as many of us, including the United States, would have wished. But it still was a very significant step forward. For the first time, all major economies — including India and China as well as the United States and the European Union — have made commitments to curb greenhouse gas pollution and report on their actions and emissions in a transparent fashion. We believe this is incredibly important.

[…] “We now have a Copenhagen Accord which contains a number of very significant elements,” an exhausted-looking Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), said at the closing press briefing. He called it “an impressive accord,” but added that it was “not an accord that is legally binding.”

[…] In the second round of a new series of online debates, readers are invited to comment on the opinions of two climate change experts who exchanged opposite points of view on the future of nuclear power. The America.gov “Who’s Right?” series, which places readers in the middle of a friendly e-mail debate between experts on a complex issue, debuted in December 2009 with a series of three e-mail exchanges on topics relating to climate change.

[…] Hi everybody. Sorry we’re doing this late. Intended to do it earlier, but events didn’t allow that to occur. So let me just make a few quick remarks and then we can get to questions. This weekend, Danish Minister for Climate [and Energy] Connie Hedegaard convened I think it was forty-eight ministers to continue working on the effort to get an agreement done. I think the discussions Saturday night, and particularly Sunday, were constructive and useful in identifying where there are still differences remaining.

[…] The President today welcomed substantial progress in the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate with the release of ten new Technology Action Plans.
President Obama launched the MEF in March 2009, creating a new dialogue among developed and emerging economies to combat climate change and promote clean energy. At their July summit in L’Aquila, Italy, MEF Leaders launched a Global Partnership on clean energy technologies.

[…] Today at the Copenhagen climate conference, on behalf of President Obama, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the launch of a new initiative to promote clean energy technologies in developing countries. Secretary Chu also welcomed progress under the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate (MEF) and invited his counterparts in MEF and other countries to a first-ever Clean Energy Ministerial next year.