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UNCLAS STATE 026022 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EFIN ENRG SENV KGHG
SUBJECT: SUBJECT: REQUEST FOR INFO ON GREEN INVESTMENTS IN 
STIMULUS PACKAGES 
 
REF: 15 MARCH 2009 EMAIL FROM OES/EGC BARBARA 
     DEROSA-JOYNT (NOTAL) 
 
¶1. Summary. This is an Action Request.  Please see paragraph 
five.  Department requests information on green investments 
in the economic stimulus packages of major economies, in 
order to aid Washington,s efforts to develop a sense of 
comparative as well as aggregate efforts among the G-20. End 
Summary. 
 
¶2. Just as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 
contains billions of dollars for a clean-energy economic 
recovery, Department recognizes that a number of other G-20 
countries are committing to substantial new investments in 
clean energy and environmental protection as part of their 
efforts to restore economic growth. 
 
¶3. In the run-up to the April 2 London Summit and in light of 
ongoing negotiations for a new global approach to climate 
change, Departments of State and the Treasury are keenly 
interested in these environment- and clean-energy-related 
components of the fiscal stimulus packages of major 
economies. 
 
¶4. We recognize that some addressee posts have already 
provided information on these investments, including in 
response to ref email. Department,s intention is to develop 
a more comprehensive and uniform set of information on these 
green investments. 
 
¶5. Accordingly, Department would appreciate information that 
is as responsive as possible to the questions below for each 
G-20 member. While Posts may approach host government 
interlocutors to discuss these questions, Posts are also free 
to respond without approaching host government officials: 
 
-Has the country passed a fiscal stimulus package that 
designates spending on any of the following, and if so how 
much?  And/or is spending on any of the following being 
planned that will use stimulus money designated more broadly? 
 
----Renewable energy (solar, wind, hydro, biofuel, 
geothermal, etc() 
----Energy efficiency (including conservation and demand-side 
management) 
----Research and development in low-carbon technologies 
----Improvements to the power grid 
----Low-carbon transportation, including related incentives 
for industry and consumers 
----Mass transportation, more generally 
----Oil, gas or coal, including any price subsidies 
----Nuclear energy 
----Forestry 
----Any incentives to reduce the use of fossil fuels (i.e. 
incentives for &green companies8) 
----Anything relating to &green jobs8 or &green worker 
training8 
----Anything relating to &greenhouse gas emissions8 
 
--Is the spending on the above &new,8 or does it appear to 
be previously planned for and then added to a fiscal stimulus 
package? 
 
--How soon will the money get spent? 
 
--Has the country coupled policy reforms intended to spur new 
private investment in energy technologies with the spending 
components? 
 
¶6. Department appreciates Posts, efforts in response to this 
request and would appreciate replies by Thursday 26 March. 
Please slug all replies to OES/EGC Barbara DeRosa-Joynt and 
Ed Fendley. 
CLINTON