Briefing by Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern
February 16, 2010
MR. TONER: Good afternoon. We’re very pleased to have Special Envoy Todd Stern here today to give us the lay of the land on international climate negotiations post-Copenhagen. As you know, in late January, the U.S. announced that it submitted its pledge to limit...
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America’s New Energy R&D Strategy
Statement by Dr. Robert Marlay
U.S. Department of Energy
With the recent administration change and economic downturn, the US priorities in energy, environment, science, and the economy have been altered or strengthened. The current baseline goal is to reduce GHG emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Within ten years, the US plans...
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If Congress passes climate and energy legislation that strengthens energy efficiency and renewable energy standards, Americans may see electric and natural gas costs fall by $113 billion by 2030. In addition, emitters would pay 4 percent less in compliance costs to meet potential requirements under a cap-and-trade scheme, according to a new...
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Measuring the greenhouse gas emissions from a city, state, or country requires comprehensive tabulations of energy use, land-use changes, industrial emissions and many other factors.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has recently explored new methods for managing carbon emissions inventories. Using NASA’s Terra satellite, the agency surveyed the “greenness” of California’s vegetation and...
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The United States Senate is planning to consider legislation raising the United States debt limit tomorrow. As part of the agreement to bring this issue to a vote, Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has promised to propose an amendment that would strip the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of its authority to regulate the emissions of...
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A price on carbon could yield substantial government revenues, and careful recycling of these revenues could offset the regressive nature of a national greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions policy, according to a new paper, Who Pays a Price on Carbon?, by Corbett Grainger and Charles Kolstad. The principal conclusion: the burden as a percent of annual income is...
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President Barack Obama’s remarks Friday at the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen:
“Good morning. It is an honor for me to join this distinguished group of leaders from nations around the world. We come here in Copenhagen because climate change poses a grave and growing danger to our people. All of you would not be...
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U.S. forests and soils currently contain the equivalent of 50 years of carbon dioxide (CO2), but have sufficient capacity to store significantly larger quantities of CO2 from the atmosphere as a means to mitigate climate change, according to the findings of the first phase of a groundbreaking national assessment by scientists at the U.S....
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