National Academy of Sciences (America’s Climate Choices series) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12785 [Summary] Substantially reducing greenhouse gas emissions will require prompt and sustained efforts to promote major technological and behavioral changes, says Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change, a new book from the America’s Climate Choices study. Although limiting emissions must be a global effort to be … Continue reading »
Posted on May 19, 2010 …
Advancing the Science of Climate Change
National Academy of Sciences (America’s Climate Choices series) www.nap.edu/catalog/12782.html [Summary] The compelling case that climate change is occurring and is caused in large part by human activities is based on a strong, credible body of evidence, says Advancing the Science of Climate Change, one of the new books in the America’s Climate Choices series. While … Continue reading »
Driving E-mobility : Economic Stimulus and Other Support Spur Development of Alternative Vehicles
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu http://tinyurl.com/22va4xn [Docuticker] An analysis by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global Manufacturing Industry group summarizing the government economic stimulus efforts and incentives around the world for alternative vehicle development. The data and information was collected and compiled using various external media sources based on information available from around November 2008 to end of … Continue reading »
Here We Go Again : A Closer Look at the Kerry-Lieberman Cap-and-Trade Proposal
An Economic View of the Environment / by Robert Stavins http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/analysis/stavins/?p=643 As with the Waxman-Markey bill (H.R. 2454), passed by the House of Representatives last June, there is now some confusing commentary in the press and blogosphere about the allocation of allowances in the new Senate proposal — the American Power Act of 2010 — … Continue reading »
Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Five Lessons of Economic Analysis
Congressional Budget Office / by Douglas Elmendorf http://cboblog.cbo.gov/?p=902 This afternoon I spoke at a Brookings conference on climate and energy policy. CBO has done a great deal of work in this area, applying the research done by outside experts as well as our own analysis and modeling to help the Congress understand the likely budgetary and economic … Continue reading »
