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Demonstrate Global Leadership on Energy Security and Climate Change

We live in a global energy market that requires broad-based, global solutions. This is an opportunity for America to demonstrate our leadership in innovation and solve what is not solely an American challenge but a global one. Open markets, expanded trade, and the elimination of tariff and nontariff barriers are necessary for a more resilient energy market and the worldwide availability of much-needed clean technologies, especially to aid developing nations.

To achieve immediate environmental benefits, we must find ways to share U.S. best practices and existing regulatory approaches to reduce air pollution wherever possible. We must exercise effective and consistent U.S. leadership to achieve a sound global framework to address the environment and issues associated with climate change. This framework must include all major-emitting economies and be compatible with the economic aspirations of the world’s less developed nations, while looking after the well-being of the American people.

Mr. President and members of the 111th Congress, you have the opportunity to change both America and the world’s energy future by moving forward on each and every one of these principles. We must provide enlightened leadership. We must recognize that we live in an energy interdependent world, as will our children and grandchildren. Our nation’s history shows that in times of great national crisis, our leaders rise to the occasion for the national good. Clearly, our future energy security commands such attention. We stand united in our views, offer our collective support, and urge you to lead in this clarion call to action.

Respectfully,

Spencer Abraham
Former Secretary of Energy and U.S. Senator (R-MI)

Dr. David M. Abshire
Former Ambassador to NATO and President and CEO of the Center for the Study of the Presidency

George F. Allen
Former U.S. Senator (R-VA) and Governor of Virginia

Richard L. Armitage
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

Howard H. Baker, Jr.
Former U.S. Senator (R-TN), White House Chief of Staff, and U.S. Ambassador to Japan

James A. Baker, III
Former White House Chief of Staff, U.S. Secretary of State, and U.S. Secretary of Treasury

Gen. Charles G. Boyd, USAF (Ret.)
President and Chief Executive Officer of Business Executives for National Security

Frank C. Carlucci
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

William S. Cohen
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense, U.S. Senator and Representative (R-ME)

Thomas J. Donohue
President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Kenneth M. Duberstein
Former White House Chief of Staff

Donald L. Evans
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce

J. Bennett Johnston
Former U.S. Senator (D-LA)

General James L. Jones (Ret. USMC)
President and CEO of the Institute for 21st Century Energy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Dr. Henry A. Kissinger
Former National Security Advisor and U.S. Secretary of State

Robert “Bud” McFarlane
Former National Security Advisor

Thomas F. “Mack” McLarty, III
Former Counselor to President Clinton, Special Envoy for the Americas, and White House Chief of Staff

Sam Nunn
Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and former U.S. Senator (D-GA)

Dr. William J. Perry
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense

Gen. Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.)
Former U.S. Secretary of State, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and National Security Advisor

Charles S. Robb
Former U.S. Senator (D-VA) and Governor of Virginia

Joseph E. Robert, Jr.
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of J.E. Robert Companies

Dr. James R. Schlesinger
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy, U.S. Secretary of Defense, and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Lt. Gen. Brent Scowcroft (Ret. USAF)
Former National Security Advisor

Dr. George P. Shultz
Former U.S. Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Secretary of Labor

Admiral James D. Watkins (Ret. USN)
Former U.S. Secretary of Energy and Chief of Naval Operations

R. James Woolsey
Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

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