Can they reinvent the car for a congested, urbanized world with vexing climate and energy problems?
The Kerry-Lieberman climate and energy bill, details of which will be announced today, has little chance of passing.
Devon Swezey is Project Director and Jesse Jenkins is Director of Climate and Energy Policy at the Breakthrough Institute.
In the absence of a national climate and energy plan, how should agencies assess the planet-warming potential of individual projects?
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This month the Senate is set to take up the climate and energy bill that Congress began work on last spring.
To help create the right political conditions for success in Copenhagen, GLOBE is launching an International Commission on Climate and Energy Security.
Instead, the letter calls for a new approach to climate and energy policy centered on direct public investment on clean energy technology.
Later this year, they are hoping to launch a new climate and energy package that would set tough binding emissions reductions targets through 2030.
"It's a big resource, it's got a good cost curve, and it's not getting enough attention, " says Dan W. Reicher, Google.org's director of climate and energy initiatives.
Nisbet sliced-and-diced information from several large campaign-finance databases like OpenSecrets.org and Maplight.org to estimate the amount of money environmental groups and the fossil-fuel industry spent on climate and energy campaigns.
The climate and energy bill laid out by Senators John Kerry and Joe Lieberman yesterday would do that very thing, and it includes a provision that would take EPA off the hook.
It is an unenviable dilemma for a President who in his first term tended to steer a middle course on climate and energy issues, sometimes supporting the environmental argument sometimes supporting the economic rationale.
Replacing nuclear power with renewables could offset some emissions but would require tremendous effort and expense, according to the study, which was supported by the Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making, a consortium of research institutions based at Carnegie Mellon.
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The climate change conference, hosted by the European Institute for Climate and Energy (known by its German acronym EIKE) and cosponsored by the Heartland Institute, attracted nearly 200 attendees and marks ongoing global momentum in favor of sound science and against factually unsupported alarmism.
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However, the Obama administration has clashed with big businesses on a range of issues over the past two years, including tax policy, health care and Wall Street reform, campaign finance and climate change and energy policy.
And the United States will seek to work together with China to promote international financial stability through the G-20 and to address global challenges such as climate change and energy security.
This means we're using 19th- and 20th-century technologies to battle 21st-century problems like climate change and energy security.
The group talked about Apple, on whose board Gore sits, and Google, where Gore is a senior adviser, as well as climate change and energy policy.
First, the global recession will not diminish the costs of climate change and energy insecurity.
We are, it seems, not taking the threat of climate change and energy shortages seriously.
In addition, rifts over climate change and energy policy tend to be more regional than partisan.
Dan Reicher, former director of climate change and energy at Google, raised this issue during an EnergyBiz conference.
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Climate- and energy-related shareholder resolutions have exploded in recent years, to 109 this year with U.S. and Canadian businesses.
Think of the discussion over climate change and energy policy for example.
Kerry and Lieberman have apparently been waiting for a sign from above to release their climate and clean energy jobs bill, the American Power Act.
Kerry also has displayed a particular interest in climate change and energy, and sources say he is likely to give special emphasis to those issues.
The Department of Energy, as part of its efforts to promote clean energy, launched OpenEI.org, containing dozens of clean energy resources and data sets, including maps of worldwide solar and wind potential, information on climate zones, and energy best practices.
They'll get the agenda for their first week back in January - although expect all kinds of extra statements and urgent questions to pepper the order paper when they return - and then the chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, Tim Yeo, leads on Consumer Engagement with Energy Markets and its new inquiry on energy prices, profits and poverty.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change says it will closely monitor energy data and performance through additional meters and detailed surveys.
In the next few years, GLOBE will be focusing in particular on the goal of enhancing climate education with a focus on global warming, the carbon and energy footprint, climate and human health, and ecosystems, agriculture, and biodiversity.
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