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June 12th Event: Climate Change, Cap-and-Trade, Renewable Electricity and Efficiency Mandates: How Do They Fit Together?

Climate Change, Cap-and-Trade, Renewable Electricity and Efficiency Mandates:

How Do They Fit Together? 

 

 

For Immediate Release

Contact: Ashley Creel

June 10, 2009

(202) 828-4405

 

 

Congress is writing major climate change legislation that includes a cap-and-trade program as well as renewable electricity and efficiency mandates.  Cap-and-trade  represents a market-based approach designed to leave choices about least-cost ways of achieving climate-change policy goals to individual producers and consumers.  Renewable electricity and efficiency standards prescribe specific approaches.  Are these policies consistent with each other?  How should they be combined?  TPI has assembled a group of experts to discuss these issues.

 

WHAT:

Climate Change, Cap-and-Trade, Renewable Electricity and Efficiency Mandates:  How Do They Fit Together

 

WHEN:

Friday, June 12th

12 noon – 2 p.m.

Lunch will be served

 

WHERE:

Rayburn House Office Building

Room B369

Washington, DC 20515

 

WHO:

Tim Brennan, Resources for the Future and UMBC

Rich Glick, Iberdrola Renewables

Lester Lave, Carnegie Mellon University

Thomas Lenard, Technology Policy Institute

Scott Wallsten, Technology Policy Institute (moderator)

 

To Register: Please contact Ashley Creel at events@techpolicyinstitute.org.

 

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