By Robert Atkinson, Nonresident Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy Program and Howard Wial, Senior Research Associate, Metropolitan Policy Program, The Brookings Institution. April 2008.
This new report from The Brookings Insitution details how "innovation drives America’s economic growth and ultimately determines its living standards and those of its metropolitan areas. However, the nation faces a growing innovation challenge in today’s global economy. To respond, the federal government should establish a National Innovation Foundation (NIF)—a new, nimble, lean, and collaborative entity devoted to supporting firms and other organizations in their innovative activities. By enhancing America’s world-class entrepreneurial and market environment, NIF would boost the nation’s innovation leadership for the 21st century and raise productivity and incomes. Moreover, by supporting workforce development and performance improvement in firms, NIF would help create better jobs for high school graduates in manufacturing and “low tech” services as well as those with advanced degrees in high technology industries."
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Ken Berlin, Robert M. Sussman. Link to web site for "The Path to Cleaner Coal: Performance Standard More Effective Than Bonus Allowances," Center for American Progress Action Fund. August 2007.
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Austrailian Buisness and Climate Group Report, August 2007.
Link to the ABCG web site to download the report, "Stepping Up: Accelerating the Deployment of Low Emission Technology in Austrailia."
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Open Europe. August 2007.
Link to Open Europe’s report on the short-comings of the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU’s main policy tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Ken Berlin, Robert M. Sussman. Center for American Progress. "Global Warming and the Future of Coal: Carbon Capture and Storage. May 31, 2007. Link to the document web page on Center for American Progress web site.
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2007 EU-U.S. Summit Statement - Energy Security, Efficiency, and Climate Change, 30 April 2007.
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Link to the webpage of the Stern Review Report on the Economics of Climate Change on the HM Treasury web site.
Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economic Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, delivers the most comprehensive review ever carried out on the economics of climate change. October 2006.
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Link to the Chair’s Conclusions from the 2nd Ministerial meeting on the Gleneagles Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Enegy, and Sustainable Development, October 3-4, 2006. Monterrey, Mexico. October 2006.
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Ian Pickard, DEFRA
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By the Carbon Trust in conjunction with L.E.K. Consulting, July 2006.
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Link to the U.S. Department of State web page on global climate change initiatves.
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Eileen Claussen, President, Pew Center on Global Climate Change; and Ged Davis, Managing Director, World Economic Forum. November 2005.
Link to the Pew Center on Global Climate Change Report from the meetings of the Climate Dialogue at Pocantico, held at the Pocantico Confernece Center of the Rockfeller Brothers Fund on July 14-16, October 6-9, 2004 and February 23-25, September 26-28, 2005.
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Link to Chairs’ conclusions from the November 1, 2005 Ministerial meeting on the Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development. Margaret Beckett, Sectretary of State for the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, UK; and Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Department of Trade and Industry, UK. November 2005.
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National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (2005), "Economic Instruments for Long-term Reductions in Energy-based Carbon Emissions", Ottawa, Canada.
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Margaret R. Taylor, Edward L. Rubin, David A. Hounshell. 2005. "Regulation as the Mother of Innovation: The Case of SO2 Control." Law & Policy, Vol. 27, No. 2, page 348-378. April 2005.
Link to the Social Science Research Network webpage to download/purchase this report.
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By Prof. Andrew Hargadon, UC Davis. A new report prepared for Clean Energy Group. September 2004.
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Michael Steiner, Department of Economics, University of Graz. August 2004. 44th European Congress of the European Regional Science Association.
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This report by e7, a group of international electricity companies from G7 countries, provides a roadmap to improve the diffusion of energy technologies for sustainable development and includes guidelines for strategic actions to address project-level "microbarriers" and recommendations for sustained cooperation to address policy-level "macrobarriers."
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December 2003, Pew Center on Global Climate Change. This report examines U.S. technology and innovation policies in relation to greenhouse gas reduction policies.
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On October 23, 2003, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, the German Embassy Washington DC and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) co-hosted an expert roundtable discussion focusing on state initiatives in Germany and the United States, state-to-state cooperation, and the relationship of federal and state levels in promoting renewable energies in both countries. Key questions were approaches taken by states in the United States and Germany to promote renewable energies, experience and lessons learned from existing programs and transatlantic synergies as well as opportunities to move forward with renewable energies on the state level.