Helsinki Commission to Hold Hearing on U.S. Financial Crisis and its Impact on Climate Change

WASHINGTON - Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL) and Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), Co-Chairmen of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission), will hold a hearing entitled, "Green and Mean: Can the new U.S. economy be both climate-friendly and competitive?" on Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. in room B-318 of the Rayburn House Office Building.

The hearing will examine the impact of pending climate remediation policies on carbon-intensive U.S. industries, and the need to create climate-friendly economic and trade policies. The hearing will also address how the current financial crisis impacts the implementation of climate-friendly policies within the United States and among our major trading partners; and how U.S. leadership on climate change can effectively drive action in other countries, in particular the participating States of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

WITNESSES

Mr. Robert Bradley, Director of International Climate Policy, World Resources Institute

Mr. Trevor Houser, Visiting Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Mr. Richard D. Morgenstern, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future