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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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For just a little more than half that amount, we could fund a fifty-fold increase in spending on R&D for the kind of game-changing technological breakthroughs—like smart grids, ultra-efficient batteries or even cheap, manageable fusion—we will need to end our addiction to fossil fuels. Scenario No. 2: Joint Venture (JV).

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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nationals and legal residents. It can be used to help industry make adjustments to adopt cleaner production processes or to support private efforts to invent new technologies that involve lower emissions. Cheap debt issuance alone, even if backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. Flexible Debt Capital.

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