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Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress talks about the perspective for Green Growth in the US. Hendricks presentation was part of the Green Growth-Smart Strategies conference organized by the Heinrich Boell Foundation and Friends of the Earth Czech Republic, held in Prague on October 21,2010. The conference was part of The Climate Network (www.TheClimateNetwork.org) a 2-year program on regional low carbon growth strategies by the Heinrich Boell Foundation's offices in Brussels, Prague and Washington, DC.

Panel I
Green Growth: Prospects and Barriers
Speakers Bracken Hendricks, Senior Fellow, Centre for American Progress, USA
Juraj Mesík, analyst and consultant, Slovakia
Tomáš Sedláček, economist, Czech Republic
tbn, European Commission
Chair Bedřich Moldan, Senator, Czech Republic

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• Green Growth
• Green Jobs
• Clean Energy
• Climate
• Bracken Hendricks
• Center for American Progress
• Heinrich Boell Foundation
• The Climate Network