The automotive industry is a large industry where there is potential for trying improve emissions standards in the United States. The Obama Administration has committed to tougher standards than have been adopted in the past. This sector has the potential to be both economically helpful to citizens as well as lower emissions.The administration has proposed […]
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In Bali 2007, the topic of trade and finance in the context of climate change negotiation was brought up. This is also one of the topic that parties need to agree on in Copenhagan 2009. The idea of using trade and finance to reduce green house gases (GHG) is definitely a worthy topic. However, at […]
In the past the US has been acting like a spoiled child let loose in a candy store. The Bush administrations and the Clinton administration have not nurtured green technological energy alternatives sufficiently. Instead these administrations have acted like parents who periodically mention vegetables are good for you, but take you to the candy store […]
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My philosophy on climate change policy resembles a combination of the three lenses described by Parker and Blodgett in the CRS Report for Congress: the “technological lens,” the “economic lens,” and the “ecological lens.” Each lens has a different view of the global climate change problem. The technological lens views climate change as an opportunity […]
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