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The Facts of Cap and Trade

Climate Change

by  |  on May 20th, 2010  |  6 comments

I was interviewing a world-class expert on energy and the environment yesterday for a project I’m on, and the discussion came around to many environmentalists’ distrust of cap-and-trade and other modes of “market-friendly” environmental activity.  I was reminded of the video from Nathaniel Keohane, Environmental Defense Fund’s Director of Economic Policy and Analysis.  (It is a rejoinder to Annie Leonard’s popular – and misguided – misrepresentation of cap-and-trade.)  Folks:  If we want to save the planet then it is pretty important to remember that sustainable development incorporates economic viability in its essence.  Lots of hard-working, effective environmentalists know this.  See the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) for just one instance.

(from Clean Energy Works)

 

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Bill Hewitt

Bill Hewitt has been an environmental activist and professional for nearly 25 years. He was deeply involved in the battle to curtail acid rain, and was also a Sierra Club leader in New York City. He spent 11 years in public affairs for the NY State Department of Environmental Conservation, and worked on environmental issues for two NYC mayoral campaigns and a presidential campaign. He is a writer and editor and is the principal of Hewitt Communications. He has an M.S. in international affairs, has taught political science at Pace University, and has graduate and continuing education classes on climate change, sustainability, and energy and the environment at The Center for Global Affairs at NYU. His book, "A Newer World - Politics, Money, Technology, and What’s Really Being Done to Solve the Climate Crisis," will be out from the University Press of New England in December.



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the policy, politics, science and economics of environmental protection, sustainability, energy and climate change

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