{"id":543459,"date":"2010-04-26T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T18:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=23624"},"modified":"2010-04-26T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T18:40:06","slug":"report-smart-climate-policy-will-boost-growth-create-2-8-million-jobs-slash-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543459","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Smart climate policy will boost growth, create 2.8 million jobs, slash pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ClimateA new macroeconomic analysis of green economic policies finds that cutting global warming pollution will make the economy grow faster.\u00a0 Brad Johnson has the story in this Wonk Room\u00a0repost<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n

The Center for Climate Strategies<\/a> (CCS), building upon analysis they did of state-level climate plans for the National Governors Association, analyzed the economic and environmental impact of legislation in line with the planned Kerry-Graham-Lieberman framework. As long as state-level policies are boosted<\/a>, CCS found that previous economic analyses by federal agencies and industry groups are wrong<\/a>. This CCS analysis finds that instead of slowing the economy, household wealth and jobs will grow faster<\/strong> in a green economy. Carbon limits and efficiency-focused policies would have a net positive employment impact of 2.8 million jobs and expand the economy by $154.7 billion by 2020, while US emissions are cut to 27 percent below 1990 levels \u2014 if strong standards are set:<\/p>\n

<\/span>The modeled job creation is consistent with the findings of Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, which used an input-output model to find that a green economy would create 1.7 million new jobs<\/a>. The center looked at three different policy scenarios, using the industry-standard REMI Policy Insight PI+ macroeconomic model:<\/p>\n

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\u2013 Strong local, state and federal implementation of green economic policies like green building codes and smart growth
\n\u2013 These strong policies combined with a federal cap-and-trade system and coupled fuel fee to guarantee emissions reductions of 27 percent below 1990 levels by 2010<\/p>\n

\u2013 Scaled-back implementation of the policies and cap-and-trade system in line with President Obama\u2019s goal of six percent below 1990 levels, similar to the Kerry-Graham-Lieberman bill soon to be considered<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The cap-and-trade system modeled uses full auction of permits and 75 percent of proceeds going directly back to consumers and 25 percent going to technology investments. No proceeds are dedicated to deficit reduction, as none is needed \u2014 a faster-growing economy will increase other tax receipts.<\/p>\n

In every single scenario, policies that cut waste and save money by eliminating market failures predominate, making the U.S. economy a more efficient free market and accelerating job growth and household wealth. The report finds that stronger environmental targets and standards deliver greater economic benefits \u2014 even if the tremendous benefits of reducing pollution have for health and environmental costs are ignored.<\/p>\n

The 23 recommended climate strategies<\/a> range the gamut from agriculture, energy supply, electricity use, to transportation. These strategies \u2014 most of which save money \u2014 combined can achieve major carbon pollution reductions:<\/p>\n

\"Climate<\/p>\n

This is what true all-of-the-above energy policy looks like. The suite of recommended policies<\/a> coming from the consultants to the Center for Climate Strategies report \u2014 the stakeholders in local and state governments, businesses, and energy users \u2014 must be taken as a top priority, even if they don\u2019t have an army of lobbyists to promote this green economic agenda. The current level of ambition in Washington is not only insufficient to mitigate the damages of global warming, it is leaving hundreds of thousands of jobs on the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new macroeconomic analysis of green economic policies finds that cutting global warming pollution will make the economy grow faster.\u00a0 Brad Johnson has the story in this Wonk Room\u00a0repost. The Center for Climate Strategies (CCS), building upon analysis they did of state-level climate plans for the National Governors Association, analyzed the economic and environmental impact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}