One such approach is to make clean energy innovation the guiding north star of our climate policy choices.
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The report did contain some good news on climate policy for the government.
The authors of one recent paper on this subject presented at a great session on climate policy in Denver.
"Today's vote is a historic failure, " said Joris den Blanken, EU climate policy director at environmental advocacy group Greenpeace.
Jesse Jenkins is Director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Breakthrough Institute.
For all three proposals, the idea is the same: climate policy is all about public investments in clean energy.
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Jesse Jenkins is Director of Energy and Climate Policy and Devon Swezey is Project Director at the Breakthrough Institute.
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The result would be a hodgepodge of regulations that would inconvenience business and erode the notion of an EU climate policy.
But parts of the communique echoed President Bush's less aggressive climate policy.
They were not lobbying the government, and their positions in the government had little or nothing to do with influencing climate policy.
As a result, the integrity or lack of integrity of climate-change science has taken center stage in the popular debate over climate policy.
If the past presages the future, the Vatican may play a critical role in shaping the ongoing debate over climate science and climate policy.
In particular, advocates less inclined to pitch another battle similar to the cap-and-trade debate are most interested in implementing climate policy through regulatory actions.
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These are heady days for us California climate policy watchers.
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To be sure, escalating the debate on climate policy is good.
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"To date, climate policy has focused on carbon dioxide primarily, and even to the exclusion of other human influences on the climate system, " the report says.
But doing so as the central U.S. climate policy, poses an immediate problem: a modest carbon tax, by itself, cannot drive carbon emissions to zero.
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If a rational person believes climate change is a certainty, he or she will also believe that climate policy is a rational response to manage that change.
Careful carbon accounting has been the presumed basis of cap-and-trade programs as envisioned by the Kyoto Protocol and advocated as the best approach for national climate policy.
In the debate over climate legislation in 2009 and 2010, it was conventional wisdom that a price on carbon was the sine qua non of effective climate policy.
Both sides see a historic crossroads, like an energy version of D-Day or Waterloo, in which the winner will determine energy and climate policy for decades to come.
I've asked Defra and DECC repeatedly since then if the two men accept the scientific conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on which UK climate policy is based.
The OECD identified conditions responsible for that success: ambitious climate policy, political consensus on the need for action, innovative public-private partnerships, and creation of the Copenhagen Clean Tech Cluster and Copenhagen Clean Ttech Park.
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Before Copenhagen, according to an analysis by the European Climate Foundation (ECF), a not-for-profit organisation devoted to climate policy, these commitments added up to an annual reduction of 3.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, compared with business as usual, by 2020.
To make matters worse, those who support a pro-active policy response to climate change have responded to exaggeratations about the significance of these uncertainties by sanitizing their findings of any hint of uncertainty to solidify support for climate policy among the mainstream public.
Taking these super wicked problem characteristics into account, requires a new way of framing climate policy solutions: less talk of mandates and higher energy costs and more talk on building competitive clean energy solutions that all Americans (and the rest of the world) can implement.
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Rising sea levels, salination of fresh water, droughts, floods... the maths of future climate impacts are inexact, but on a global scale the costs are likely to rise, not fall - and by far more than the costs borne by highly profitable Chinese airlines as they fly inside the EU's climate policy umbrella.
With climate policy in disarray here in the United States as well, leading environmental organizations and progressives would do well to look to our friends in Australia for a new model to move away from compromised and politically unsustainable emissions trading and toward major public investments in clean energy innovation and infrastructure to create a prosperous clean energy economy.
During a debate on the government's energy and climate change policy on 2 November 2010, Lord Lawson, a prominent climate change sceptic, poured scorn on the idea that there would be a binding world agreement on cutting carbon emissions.
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The third central role of the health care sector is in education and advocacy around climate change policy.
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