Gov. Jim Doyle will meet with governors and international leaders in mid-December at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
According to a statement from Doyle's office, the conference will host environmental and business leaders to discuss states' roles in creating ""green solutions"" to climate issues.
""With a global focus on climate change, Wisconsin is well-positioned to become a worldwide leader in a clean-energy economy,"" Doyle said in a statement.
Doyle said he will meet with companies at the conference to discuss expanding business and employment opportunities in Wisconsin.
""We have the hardest workers and high-end manufacturers, the brightest researchers and some of the best natural resources in the world. By advancing renewable fuels and alternative energy, we can create jobs in Wisconsin and take on the pressing challenge of climate change,"" he said.
Doyle's trip comes on the heels of criticism of climate-change proposals made by Wisconsin's Global Warming Task Force in July 2008.
In a letter released Thursday from state Rep. Mike Huebsch, R-West Salem, to Doyle, Huebsch encouraged Doyle to reconsider the recommendations based on a potential decrease in jobs associated with parts of the legislation.
""We ask that you consider the appropriateness of holding state government harmless from the financial impact of these proposals, while forcing Wisconsin taxpayers, consumers and electric ratepayers to fully absorb the considerable cost of the policies,"" Huebsch said in the letter.
Over 20 businesses and associations, including Wisconsin Retail Council and the Metropolitan Builders Association, signed the letter.
In a statement, Senior Policy Director for Clean Wisconsin Keith Reopelle said although his organization opposes a nuclear power provision of the bill, it supports the legislation overall.
""We support the task force recommendations as a package, in its entirety, because 98 percent of those recommendations support clean-energy solutions to global warming,"" he said.
