GreenBiz.com gathered several prominent environmental journalists and the vice president of advisory services at Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) for a panel discussion on how the 2008 U.S. presidential election would impact the green economy.

The panel took place during the Second Annual GreenBiz-BSR Leadership dinner during the BSR conference in New York in early November. Panelists included Marc Gunther, formerly of Fortune, Adam Aston of Business Week, Kate Galbraith of The New York Times and BSR's Eric Olson, during the conversation moderated by GreenBiz.com's Executive Editor Joel Makower.

In this second video clip, Makower asks the panel whether the recession will provide a convenient excuse for pulling back from the green agenda.

"You have to come up with a way to say that the purpose of this is to do two things: It’s to do something about climate change but to also stimulate a new, green economy," Marc Gunther said.