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Oct 19
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5-6:30p
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Carla Peterman
(ERG)
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Climate change
policy at the California Public Utilities Commission
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Based
on her experiences working there over the summer, Carla will provide an
overview of recent CPUC climate change policies and discuss how they
dovetail with recent state climate change legislation.
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Dec 13
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12:30-2p
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Brian
O'Neill
(IIASA)
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Interim targets:
Guideposts to reaching long-term climate change goals
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We
propose that international climate change policy would be strengthened
by the development and adoption of targets for atmospheric
concentrations of greenhouse gases 25–50 years in the future in
addition to near- and long-term targets. ‘Interim concentration
targets’, which could be accommodated under the current
Convention/Protocol framework, would provide several advantages over
the current focus on either the short term (e.g. Kyoto Protocol) or the
long term (e.g. ultimate stabilization targets).
Interim targets would help constrain rates of climate change (which are
not sufficiently addressed by short- or long-term targets, even when
paired together). They would also provide a means for keeping open the
option of achieving a
range of long-term goals while uncertainty (and political disagreement)
over the appropriate goal is resolved. We substantiate a number of
rationales for such an approach, discuss the use of interim targets in
other contexts, and
illustrate how such targets for climate change policy might be set.
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