International

 Today, I write to you from Long Beach, California, where I just spoke at our seventh annual Green Campus Summit. The summit brought together more than 150 people – students, teachers and energy efficiency experts – who are connected to the important work that the Alliance is catalyzing at university campuses across the state of California. I was thrilled to address this important forum designed to inspire our young people to not only save energy on their college campuses, but also prepare them for careers in energy efficiency and other parts of the emerging clean energy economy. 

 EE Global, an official EU Sustainable Energy Week side-event, will be held in Brussels, Belgium on April 12-14.

When Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Washington on Jan. 19, 2011, he and President Barack Obama reinforced their cooperative relationship on clean energy and climate change.

A shift from incandescent light bulbs to more efficient lighting alternatives, including compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) could cut the world's energy demand for lighting by 18 percent. 

On Dec. 11, international negotiators from 193 countries finalized the Cancun Agreements, which establish a variety of international programs to combat climate change. The Cancun negotiations constituted the 16^th Conference of the Parties (COP16), annual meetings conducted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The agreements establish a variety of programs that seek to address global energy challenges, in part through the deployment of energy efficiency.