The best and worst policies for climate and economic recovery
Integrating efforts to safeguard the climate and to boost the economy
It has become clear that countries must begin taking bold steps to address the threat of climate change by drastically reducing the release of greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. Recent G20 Summits in London and Pittsburgh have called for a sustainable low carbon recovery from the economic crisis through coordinated investments in clean, efficient technologies. This message was echoed by world leaders at the UN Climate Summit in September and in the Declaration agreed in July by Leaders of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) on Energy and Climate Change, which recognized the scientific imperative to limit the global temperature rise to 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
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