On the program: – UN chief Ban Ki-moon sets up a high-level advisory panel to jump start financing for developing nations to battle climate change. – President Obama releases his Economic Report… Inside: a plan for a clean energy future. – State energy regulators will soon tell the feds what they want from Washington.  The [...]

President Calderon talks about the next COP16 in Mexico 2010

Clean Skies Sunday reports on the new reality for Senate Democrats. With only 59 Democratic votes, Tyler Suiters breaks down the future of energy legislation, a bill regulating the controversial act of hydro-fracking, and a push to nullify the EPA endangerment finding on greenhouse gases. Energy analyst Kevin Book discusses the possible merger between Exxon-Mobil and XTO. It’s been one month since the end of the Copenhagen talks, and Ned Helme, President of the Center for Clean Air Policy discusses what’s been done since then.And it’s an electrifying ride at the North American International Auto Show – we’ll show you the newest, greenest cars about to hit the road.

Margaret Ryan reports on White House Climate Change Advisor, Carol Browner, who assessed the Obama Administration’s progress on clean energy. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar will hold a meeting tomorrow on the Cape Wind project. The Sierra Club and others are suing Massey Energy claiming it has violated 12,000 pollution laws. And Lee Patrick Sullivan is at the Detroit Auto Show where the vehicles are the greenest ever.

Secretary of State Clinton tries to break the impasse at the Copenhagen climate summit by offering $100 billion a year for a decade to developing nations. Jeffrey Ball reports on how the offer was received in Copenhagen.

Some 15,000 delegates from 192 nations gather in Copenhagen for two weeks of negotiations on an agreement that would succeed the Kyoto Protocol and set new global carbon emission targets. At the heart of the deal must be a settlement between the wealthy countries and the developing world. Video courtesy of Reuters.

Chevron CEO, Dave O’Reilly and Sierra Club Executive Director, Carl Pope debate America’s Energy Future. (Part three of three)

Chevron CEO, Dave O’Reilly and Sierra Club Executive Director, Carl Pope debate America’s Energy Future. (Part two of three)

Democratic leaders are gearing up to push climate-change legislation to a House vote later this summer. But the deal-making required to pass the act means the bill’s real-world impact on the environment and energy use could be slower and less substantial than the president once proposed, WSJ’s Steve Power explains

On the eve of the inauguration, attendees of the Green Inaugural Ball and the Arkansas Inaugural Gala in Washington, D.C. — including former President Bill Clinton — share their hopes for Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office.

At the ECO:nomics summit, former Vice President Al Gore discusses his 10-year plan to end utilities’ use of carbon-based fuels.

President Barack Obama goes green..

Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about Silicon Valley’s search for smart ways to rein in fossil-fuel use at the ECO:nomics conference.

At the ECO:nomics conference, Deutsche Bank’s Caio Koch-Weser talks with WSJ’s Deputy Managing Editor Alan Murray about how green initiatives might get financed in this economy.

General Electic CEO Jeffrey Immelt talks with WSJ’s Alan Murray about cap-and-trade on carbon emissions and how the U.S. already has a greenhouse gas policy — but nobody knows about it.

Public policy think tank Civic Exchange and the British Consulate-General co-organised a workshop to explore the latest developments in carbon trading and the implications for the financial centres of the world. This workshop is supported by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited.

United Nations, New York, 14 May 2009: The United Nations is leading a powerful new campaign to encourage governments to seal the deal on a fair, balanced and effective agreement on climate change