{"id":832,"date":"2011-09-25T20:10:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T20:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/?p=832"},"modified":"2011-09-25T20:10:06","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T20:10:06","slug":"key-players-in-u-s-climate-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/2011\/09\/key-players-in-u-s-climate-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Players in U.S. Climate Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RFF Key Players in U.S. Climate Policy<\/p><\/div>\n

The companies listed above are those establishments chosen by Resources for the Future<\/a> (RFF) research on an executive summary and overview of potential U.S. climate change policy implementations.\u00a0 The opinions of these companies, along with RFF researchers, provide a wide range of inputs and estimations for appropriate climate legislation in the United Sates.\u00a0 The array of representatives ranges from oil and gas companies to agricultural and<\/p>\n

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Words from Participants in the RFF Research<\/p><\/div>\n

chemical producers.\u00a0 It is important for these companies to have a say in legislation because it is likely that they will be most affected by changes in policy.\u00a0 Possible implementations for greenhouse gas emission reductions are market-based approaches, like a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax.\u00a0 Such policies enforce greenhouse gas emission reductions on those companies most responsible for emitting in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, the responsibilities, costs, and losses lie with those companies listed above.\u00a0 I personally believe that including companies most affected by changes to U.S. climate legislation in the process of forming policies is highly advantageous, effective, and imperative.<\/p>\n

The effects that different legislations have on companies will vary, however.\u00a0 Research from the RFF suggests that with certain policies for greenhouse gas emissions, costs will rise.\u00a0 There is also evidence that argues the fact that without any implementation at all, industrial costs will increase.\u00a0 Robert Stavins<\/a>, from Harvard University suggests \u201cMarket-based approaches to environmental protection should be lauded, not condemned, by political leaders, no matter what their party affiliation. Otherwise, there will be severe and perverse long-term consequences for the economy, for business, and for consumers.\u201d\u00a0 Without any regulation in greenhouse gas emissions, companies could potentially be more affected.\u00a0 The consequences described by Stavins insinuate the possibility for more harsh opportunities around the corner for industrial companies if they do not act soon.<\/p>\n

Because enterprises like ExxonMobil, DuPont, and Goldman, Sachs & Co. would be strongly influenced by changes to the market-based system in place, it is vastly essential to include such companies in a decision-making process to find an approach to GHG emission reduction that will effectively slow the anthropogenic effects on climate change while maintaining a successful economy.<\/p>\n

Works Cited:<\/p>\n

Kopp, R & Pizer, W. \u00a02007. \u00a0Assessing U.S. Climate Policy Options.\u00a0<\/em>Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.<\/p>\n

Stavins, R. 2011. A Golden Opportunity to Please Conservatives and Liberals Alike. <\/em>Huffington Post: United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The companies listed above are those establishments chosen by Resources for the Future (RFF) research on an executive summary and overview of potential U.S. climate change policy implementations.\u00a0 The opinions of these companies, along with RFF researchers, provide a wide range of inputs and estimations for appropriate climate legislation in the United Sates.\u00a0 The array of representatives ranges from oil and gas companies to agricultural and
\nchemical producers.\u00a0 It is important for these companies to have a say in legislation because it is likely that they will be most affected by changes in policy.\u00a0 Possible implementations for greenhouse gas emission reductions are market-based approaches, like a cap-and-trade system or a carbon tax.\u00a0 Such policies enforce greenhouse gas emission reductions on those companies most responsible for emitting in the first place.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus, the responsibilities, costs, and losses lie with those companies listed above.\u00a0 I personally believe that including companies most affected by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40504,25703,40503,34334,40501],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-kopp-and-pizer","tag-maggie-rees","tag-rff","tag-robert-stavins","tag-u-s-climate-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/cop17durban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}