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Jeremy Lovell, Reuters. September 24, 2007. This analysis by Jeremy Lovell explains that carbon pricing will not achieve the carbon reductions necessary to make a global energy system carbon neutral by 2050, and he makes the case that strict technical standards and investment incentives will be needed to achieve that transition.
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Ken Berlin and Robert M. Sussman, Center for American Progress. May 2007.
Sussman and Berlin make a very good case for complementary technology in general, and their report specifically relates to the need for performance standards to implement CCS technololgy. The authors maintain that neither cap and trade nor coal taxes will suffice because the price of carbon emissions or coal will not go high enough to spur the new technology. A performance standard will need to be accompanied by incentives, say the authors, to keep energy prices affordable.
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Hoff Stauffer, Wingaersheek Research Group. October 2006.
This report describes a strategy for reducing new sources of GHG emissions that relies on performance standards. These standards would strictly regulate the pollutants from direct sources of emissions such as power plants and autos. They would also mandate greater efficiency for new capital such as appliances and buildings that rely on fossil fuel combustion for the generation of electricity, heating, and cooling.