Ken Brown, Shane Shifflett, Scott Patterson of The Wall Street Journal provide a cheat sheet to the U.N. climate conference in Glasgow.
- The Conference of Parties (COP) is the annual U.N. climate summit and will last from November 1-12.
- While many activists and world leaders will be touting top-down, command and control approaches to climate change, conservatives will be amplifying free markets.
- C3 Solutions will be at COP promoting our report Free Economies are Clean Economies.
- If we want to seriously address climate change, we must look to solutions that are rooted in economic freedom.
“Negotiators from nearly every country on earth, financiers who oversee trillions of dollars, and environmentalists are descending on Glasgow for the most important climate meeting since the Paris agreement in 2015. Since then, businesses and investors have spent billions of dollars to transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy. Governments have boosted regulations and spent heavily to reduce the financial impact of weather disasters, which have increased as the globe’s temperature has risen.”
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