No single policy approach can solve the problem of global warming. Rather, a portfolio of strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will be needed, particularly policies that bring low-carbon technologies into the market. An immediate step is for the United States to establish mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions, coupled with a market-based system that allows reductions to be made cost-effectively.
Complementary energy policies must also be enacted quickly, including more stringent fuel efficiency standards for vehicles, a national renewable energy standard, energy-efficiency measures, and other short- and long-term strategies to speed the transition to low- and zero-emission technologies.
Pew’s overarching goal is to move the United States to join with other developed nations in setting mandatory controls on greenhouse gas emissions.
We focus on three primary objectives:
• Secure mandatory federal limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Pew works to build public support for a policy that sets mandatory limits on emissions, includes market-based principles that allow meaningful reductions to be made as cheaply as possible and establishes a regulatory framework that is designed to stop and sharply reduce emissions, consistent with what the science says is needed by mid-century.
• Advance support for complementary reduction policies, including the adoption of a significant increase in fuel efficiency standards for vehicles. Pew supports stronger fuel efficiency standards, a range of energy efficiency and renewables policies, carbon capture and storage demonstration projects and investments in clean energy technologies.
• Achieve a second round of reduction commitments by developed nations, including the United States, under the Kyoto Protocol, and tailored emissions reduction measures to be implemented by China, India and other rapidly developing nations.
Feb 05, 2009 - This report released by the Pew Center and the Asia Society outlines a roadmap for a more comprehensive program of United States-China collaboration on energy and climate change.
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Dec 19, 2007 - Congressional Testimony of Philip Clapp, Deputy Managing Director of the Pew Environment Group
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Sep 06, 2007 - Introduction to the Summer 2007 issue of Trust magazine by Pew's President Rebecca Rimel.
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May 01, 2006 - Whether humans are implicated in the observed warming of the planet, says an expert, "is an argument that is over." Now what?
May 01, 2006 - Introduction to the Spring 2006 issue of Trust magazine by Pew's President Rebecca Rimel.
Feb 01, 2004 - Toward a cleaner electric sector.
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