Auctioning Carbon Dioxide Permits : a Business Friendly Climate Policy
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When governments decide to reduce greenhouse emissions, they must also create fair and workable programs. Outside the United States, industrialized countries have reached a consensus on the need to take action to slow climate change. Despite President Bush’s retreat from a campaign pledge to regulate carbon dioxide and his Administration’s disavowal of the Kyoto Protocol, even Bush acknowledges that the United States will eventually have to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
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تاریخ انتشار 2001