"The key is to remove all the market, cost, and fiscal barriers in the way of beneficial innovators. When streamlined policy makes new investments cheap and easy, newer, cleaner technologies replace older, dirtier technologies at an ever faster pace, accelerating innovation and the energy transition."
The way to unlock the power of society and the private sector is by giving people the freedom to innovate. Strict federal mandates, on the other hand, are a path to failure.
"'It’s not top-down. It has to be a bottom-up exercise,' said André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, a senior Brazilian diplomat, about Brasília’s environmental efforts. 'At COP28, we’re going to have the beginning of a very important new stage. What has to be done will be debated first by the countries that have tropical forests.' said André Aranha Corrêa do Lago, a senior Brazilian diplomat, about Brasília’s environmental efforts. 'At COP28, we’re going to have the beginning of a very important new stage. What has to be done will be debated first by the countries that have tropical forests.'"
"The bottom line: Electrification is not the silver bullet for reducing transportation emissions. Without greatly expanding our electric infrastructure and bolstering our domestic critical mineral supplies, an EV-only approach will do more to harm the environment than it will to help it, at the expense of consumer choice."
Reducing financial barriers for all energy technologies and opening up free trade will help the world lower emissions and accelerate human prosperity.
The way to unlock the power of society and the private sector is by giving people the freedom to innovate.
"It’s time to move beyond 'save the planet no matter what the cost' to 'saving the planet is about protecting the people on it in both the short and long term.' If we don’t accept this reframing, policies meant to reduce human suffering by addressing climate change can actually make that suffering worse. In the end, voters own this issue. We cannot support politicians based on slogans. We must hold them accountable for the results of their policies, taking all relevant factors into account."
"The reason why the CRP is storing less carbon in soil than if the acres were placed randomly has to do with where program acres are concentrated. The Southern Great Plains have a disproportionately high amount of CRP acres, compared to the rest of the country, and the 'coarse-textured soils' in this area store carbon poorly."
Trinidad and Tobago is highlighting the importance of using many different sources of energy instead of having the government pick a winner. Over time, that will allow the most efficient sources to grow in a competitive market.
"'What the department put out is really barely a drop in the bucket compared to the level of ambition and the size of the challenge that we see,' said Matthew Mailloux, a policy adviser at the conservative clean energy group ClearPath, in an interview. 'We would certainly hope that DOE, either through [the final rule] or a future rulemaking, would broaden the number and types of technology that are eligible for this more predictable process.'"
