and create 5 million clean jobs

In a presentation before national policymakers and analysts today, leading clean energy CEOs, venture capitalists and academics unveiled the "Gigaton Throwdown," an assessment of the nation's clean energy potential that identifies seven industries capable of creating 5 million clean energy jobs and reducing CO2 emissions by 5-7 gigatons by 2020. The report, a collaborative effort between leading researchers at UC Berkeley, MIT, University of Michigan, Stanford, and Drexel University, and clean tech leaders, challenges Washington policymakers to remove obstacles that keep billions of capital investment dollars sitting on the sidelines.

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