The uses and misuses of technology development as a component of climate policy
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MITJPSPGC_Rpt43.pdf
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Date Issued
November 1998
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MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change
Series/Report no.
Report no. 43
Abstract
The current misplaced focus on short-term climate policies is a product both of domestic political exigencies and badly flawed technical analyses. A prime example of the latter is a recent U.S. Department of Energy study, prepared by five national laboratories. The 5-Labs study assumes —- incorrectly —- that technical solutions are readily at hand. Worse, advocates of short-term emissions targets under the Framework Convention on Climate Change are using this study to justify the subsidy of existing energy technologies —- diverting resources from the effective long-term technology response that will be needed if the climate picture darkens.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 15-16).
Abstract in HTML and technical report in HTML and PDF available on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change website (http://mit.edu/globalchange/www/)
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