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Breaking the U.S.-China suicide pact
William Chandler's recommendations on how we can cooperate to lower emissions |
Joseph Romm |
28 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
| William Chandler, director of the Carnegie Energy and Climate Program, has borrowed my phrase for the title of his new study: 'Breaking the Suicide Pact: U.S.-China Cooperation on Climate Change.' It begins: Together, China and the United States produce 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Their actions to curb or expand energy consumption will determine whether efforts to stop global climate change succeed or fail. If these two nations act to curb emissions, ... |
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| Topics: China, climate, climate change mitigation, economy, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, international politics, United States (all these topics) |
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An infrastructure problem
Public works and investment must be part of the solution to global warming |
Gar Lipow |
30 Jan 2008 |
Gristmill |
| As I've said before, certain types of goods -- public goods -- simply cannot be allocated efficiently through market mechanisms alone, even if we get prices right. Now this is not a 'government good/private sector bad' post. It is a suggestion, as was my original post on this subject, that a market system requires not only regulation but large-scale public investment, and that one of the places we are making way too few public investments is energy infrastructure. Again, ... |
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| Topics: economy, climate, energy, climate change mitigation (all these topics) |
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