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Governing Confusion: How Statutes, Fiscal Policy, and Regulations Impede Clean Energy Technologies
Governing Confusion: How Statutes, Fiscal Policy, and Regulations Impede Clean Energy Technologies
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Brown, Marilyn A.
Chandler, Sharon (Jess) Ann
Chandler, Sharon (Jess) Ann
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Abstract
The United States shares with many other countries the goal of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change "to achieve … stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." The critical role of new technologies in achieving this goal is underscored by the fact that most anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted over the next century will come from equipment and infrastructure that has not yet been built. As a result, new technologies and fuels have the potential to transform the nation's energy system while meeting climate change as well as energy security and other goals.
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Support for this research was provided
by the U.S. Climate Change Technology Program (CCTP)
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2008
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