Group photo of Governors and Premiers (click here for larger photo)

Eleven Western Governors and four Canadian Premiers participated in the Annual Meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, June 29 to July 1.

Agenda topics included energy, climate change and adaptation, wildlife corridors and water policies for a changing world.

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• Agenda
• Briefing Materials
• Other photos
  

• Deploying Near-zero Technologies for Coal: A Path Forward - A Workshop Summary and Resource Document
• Water Needs and Strategies for a Sustainable Future: Next Steps
• Wildlife Corridors Initiative
• 2008 Policy Resolutions
• 2008 Annual Report

Press Releases

• Western governors take action to preserve wildlife corridors  impacted by growth, energy, climate change and transportation ( 6/29)
• Climate Change, Growth Will Add To Western Water Planning Challenges (6/30)
• Governors and Utility CEOs forge next steps to meeting the West’s electricity needs (6/30)
• Western Governors' Meeting Wrap-up -- Leadership Elected (7/1)

Presentations

• Keynote by Tom Brokaw - Love Your Mother--Mother Nature--And All Her Creatures (6/29)
  transcript ---- audio

• Jack Dangermond, CEO ESRI - Protecting Wildlife Corridors (6/29)
• ESRI blog on Jack Dangermond's presentation (includes graphics)

• Michael R. Niggli, COO San Diego Gas & Electric - Towards 2020 (6/30)
• Jeff Sterba, Chairman, President and CEO PNM Resources -- Supplying Electricity in a Carbon-Constrained West (6/30) -- revised
• Transcript of transmission plenary

• Keynote by Jeff Immelt, CEO of GE
• Transcript of Energy and Climate Change plenary