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At 2:00pm on Friday, January 18, 2008, the National Council for Science and the Environment hosted a debate on Climate change for presidential candidate campaigns at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Washington, DC. Congressman Dennis Kucinich and representatives of Senators Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barak Obama took part. All campaigns were invited, but others chose not to participate. What follows are excerpts of that debate accompanied by video. We invite you to discuss the views and policies put forward here.

1. Opening Remarks from Ambassador Richard Benedick and Moderator Vijay Vaitheeswaran
2. Part One, Candidate statements:
   1. Congressman Dennis Kucinich
   2. Todd Stern on behalf of Senator Hilary Clinton
   3. L.G. Holstein on behalf of Senator John Edwards
   4. Dan Este on behalf of Senator Barak Obama
3. Questions from Moderator Vijay Vaitheeswaran
   1. How will you get it done?
   2. What are the costs?
   3. What do you plan to do with the money from auctioning carbon credits?
   4. The role of government and energy efficiency
4. Questions from the audience
   1. Linking health and the environment
   2. Clean energy stimulus
   3. What if there’s a pre-election cap-and-trade bill?
   4. U.S. international leadership and aid
   5. Confront sins of the past
   6. What about China?
   7. “My job first, my environment second”
   8. Coal and Nuclear
      
5. Closing remarks from Moderator Vijay Vaitheeswaran and Ambassador Richard Benedick
   

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