Don't Count On Long-term Success In Climate Policy, Warns Paper In Decision Analysis

Saturday, July 5, 2008 - 21:14 in Earth & Climate

Long-term climate change policy in the US and abroad is likely to change very slowly, warns a researcher who calls for stronger short-term goals to reduce carbon emissions. Although staging climate change policy decisions over time would seem to make sense, researchers point out that the tendency of U.S. and international policy to change extremely slowly requires front-loading the painful decisions.

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