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"But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America. And to support that innovation, we will invest fifteen billion dollars a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power; advanced biofuels, clean coal, and more fuel-efficient cars and trucks built right here in America."<ref>Barack Obama, [http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-of-President-Barack-Obama-Address-to-Joint-Session-of-Congress/ "Remarks of President Barack Obama -- Address to Joint Session of Congress"], February 24th, 2009.</ref>
==Statement to Renewable Energy Investors==
''CNN'' reported that in March 2009 Obama told a group of renewable-energy company investors and owners that the U.S. has "known the right choice for a generation (and that) the time has come to make that choice ... We can allow climate change to wreak unnatural havoc or we can create jobs preventing its worse effects. We can hand over the jobs of the 21st century to our competitors, or we can create those jobs right here in America."<ref>[http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/29/obama.climate/index.html "Obama invites major economies to energy forum"], CNN, March 29, 2009.</ref>
==Articles and Resources==
*[[COP14]]
*[[COP15]]
*[[Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate]]
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