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Economy Trumps Environment
Brazil's Environmental Minister Marina Silva stepped down suddenly, another example of environmental leaders worldwide finding they have little power over governments that care more about development than conservation. If we want to save the Amazon, it's time for a new approach.
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Israeli Subsidies Ensure an Electric Car Market
Nissan Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn is embarking on a project to bring electric cars to the U.S., Israel, and beyond. Without government support in Israel, he says, it wouldn't be possible.
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Breakthroughs Depend on Learning By Doing
Making clean energy cheaper than coal must be the explicit policy objective of a successful US climate policy. That will require not just research but also the deployment of technologies in the real world. Breakthroughs will be achieved less in the laboratory and more by learning while doing.
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Don't Count on China to Put the Brakes on Development
China is gearing up to announce an action plan for dealing with climate change, but chances are it's not going to include binding limits on its emissions. Instead of daring each other to be first to impose emissions limits, the U.S. needs to develop a plan for transferring clean, low-cost energy to China.
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Gas Tax Holiday Debate Warns of Fights to Come
Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus argue in the San Francisco Chronicle that if environmental leaders insist on making their politics about raising energy prices, the effort to win action on global warming will be a repeat of past failures. There is a better way.
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