Important column in today, Sunday's New York Times by the amazing Tom Friedman, written in Hong Kong, titled "Who's Sleeping Now?" - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/opinion/10friedman.html

Friedman says, "We are either going to put in place a price on carbon and the right regulatory incentives to ensure that America is China’s main competitor/partner in the E.T. (Energy Technology) revolution, or we are going to gradually cede this industry to Beijing and the good jobs and energy security that would go with it."

He finishes the column with "We can’t afford to be asleep with an invigorated China wide awake."

Don't be fooled by the world not signing a clear agreed-upon mandate at Copenhagen.

Look at the work being done by Branson's Carbon War Room, and at the dynamic Artic Council looking to invest huge amounts of money to mitigate carbon emissions and help to avoid the Gulf Stream's temperate effect on the Scandinavian countries.

The Green Economy is developing quickly - and it will determine who are the leading countries in the next two decades.
- Jim