Bill Clinton: Business is the key to climate change

April 22, 2009 2:08 PM PDT

Bill Clinton: Business is the key to climate change

by Martin LaMonica

LAGUNA NIGUEL, California--Absent having a vote in Congress, the best way for people to tackle climate change is to make clean energy cheap, said Bill Clinton at a green business conference here on Wednesday.

Speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm Green event, the former president said that through the Clinton Global Initiative philanthropy, he is involved in a number of projects which show how environmental awareness makes sense for business.

Successful sustainability efforts help provide the political leverage for passing climate change regulations in the U.S, and internationally, Clinton argued.

The House this week is having hearings on a energy and climate bill which could pass this year, but faces a less certain path in the Senate. Next year, international negotiations on climate change are set to resume in Copenhagen with the purpose of crafting a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.

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