Federal Policies to Reduce U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Emissions Targets, Regulatory Design, and Broader Policy Goals

Summary: Policymakers in the United States confront a number of important choices as they consider policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. What are the broader objectives - beyond emissions reductions - that the United States may have for domestic climate policy? Speaker List: - Billy Pizer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future - Henry D. Jacoby, Professor of management, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management - Leon Clarke, Senior Research Economist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and staff member, Joint Global Change Research Institute - Rich Richels, Senior Technical Executive for Climate Research, Electric Power Research Institute