Pataki Named To Climate Change Panel

Former Governor (and brief presidential candidate) George Pataki has been named as co-chair of the Independent Task Force on Global Climate Change, a project of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Pataki will lead a 30-person task force with Democrat Thomas Vilsack, the former governor of Iowa and also a former presidential candidate. According to the release the project team will address U.S. climate change policy with an emphasis on its international dimensions. The panel plans to report on its findings in the spring of 2008. The task force will further examine the economics, science, and politics of climate change, and will propose a comprehensive strategy for addressing the challenges and seizing the possibilities that climate change creates.

"Climate change is universally recognized as both a serious challenge and as a potential opportunity," said Pataki. "Working with the international community, our researchers and the private sector, we can develop new domestic sources of clean renewable energy that will help reduce global warming."

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