Pew Center Briefs cover clean energy jobs and climate solutions.
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Brief titled Clean Energy Markets: Jobs and Opportunities, explains how investment in clean energy technologies will generate economic growth and create jobs. Comprehensive, market-based national policy that attracts investment in clean energy markets can help create these economic benefits. Second brief, titled Carbon Market Design and Oversight, assesses opportunity before Congress to create optimal design and oversight mechanisms to ensure viable and transparent carbon market.
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Pew Center Briefs Point to Clean Energy Jobs, Detail Carbon Market Oversight
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Pew Center on Global Climate Change has released two timely publications that make the case for market-based clean energy and climate solutions.
Clean Energy Markets: Jobs and Opportunities, a new brief, explains how investment in clean energy technologies will generate economic growth and create new jobs in the United States and around the world. Comprehensive, market-based national policy that attracts investment in clean energy markets can help create these economic benefits.
A second brief, Carbon Market Design & Oversight, assesses the opportunity now before Congress to create the optimal design and oversight mechanisms to ensure a viable, transparent, and robust carbon market.
"It's in our economic self-interest to ramp up development and deployment of U.S. clean energy technologies so that we can compete in the rapidly growing global clean energy markets," said Eileen Claussen, President of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. "It's not too late for the U.S. to position itself as a global clean energy leader, but we must act now. Passing comprehensive climate and energy legislation that prices carbon will give businesses the certainty needed to unleash millions of dollars in clean energy investments that will create U.S. jobs and expand economic opportunities."
Worldwide, clean energy markets are already substantial in scope and growing fast, explains the Clean Energy Markets brief. Historically, regions where an industry gains an initial foothold are more likely to become a major center of growth for the industry. In the United States, comprehensive climate and energy policy can give nascent clean energy industries this initial start by attracting investment in clean energy markets and helping to create homegrown jobs.
In crafting sensible, market-based climate and energy policy, lawmakers should build on best practices and lessons from a number of existing markets to create the optimal carbon market design and oversight mechanisms. The Carbon Market brief provides policymakers a thorough yet concise assessment of the key considerations involved in establishing a sound, transparent U.S. carbon market. These include:
o Roles and rationales of exchange-based and over-the-counter markets;
o Options for improving oversight of these markets;
o Assessments of potential regulatory agencies for a U.S. carbon market; and
o Comparisons of carbon market oversight provisions in legislative proposals.
"Effective carbon market oversight will be critical, but it is fundamental and achievable," said Claussen.
For more information about global climate change and the activities of the Pew Center, visit www.pewclimate.org.
The Pew Center was established in May 1998 as a non-profit, non-partisan, and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers, and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change. The Pew Center is led by Eileen Claussen, the former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs.
