The environmental priorities of the incoming American President couldn’t be more welcomed.  The end of 2008 saw him appoint two of the world’s most respected climate scientists, John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco to his team as scientific adviser and head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration respectively.  

They will join the incoming Energy Secretary, Steven Chu, who is another prominent advocate of the need to tackle climate change, and the Labour Secretary, Hilda Solis, who sponsored a Green Jobs Act in Congress last year.

But what will the new administration’s environmental orientation mean in practical terms?  Some expect Mr Obama’s anticipated fiscal stimulus package to include a heavy emphasis on creating new jobs, more observantly though he has unquestionably laid down a signal of intent: the struggle against runaway climate change will now enjoy the full-heated support of the leader of the most powerful nation on the planet.

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