McKnight to Join International Battle on Climate Change

"It definitely is not about sending American experts overseas," said Energy Foundation president Eric Heitz. "It recognizes that the problem is international and that the best minds of the U.S. and China and India and Europe and other places have to work on it," he said. That includes pooling international expertise so that countries can develop their own strategic plans, he said. Those could include policies that encourage energy conservation, more efficient appliances, cleaner fuels, preservation of tropical forests, and renewable energy requirements for utilities that sell electricity.