Mitigation Technologies and Policies

Discuss the various technologies and policies that are being used to mitigate the progress of climate change - including renewable energy sources - with our guest, David Sandalow, on February 24 at 8 a.m. EST (13:00 GMT).

David Sandalow is assistant secretary for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy. He was most recently an energy and environment scholar and a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution and also the Energy and Climate Change Working Group chair for the Clinton Global Initiative. He is the editor of Plug-In Electric Vehicles: What Role for Washington? (Brookings Press, 2009) and the author of Freedom from Oil (McGraw-Hill, 2008) and has written widely on energy and environmental policy.

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The transcript of this webchat will be available on America.gov's webchat page ( http://www.america.gov/multimedia/askamerica.html ), where information about upcoming webchats is also available.

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