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• Jeff Frankels Weblog | Views on the Economy and the World: someone that Paul Krugman recommends. Interesting economist
• Carbon Trading: What Europe Can Actually Teach Us - Environment and Energy: "Of all the questions about climate policy, one of the biggest is whether a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases will even work. Will it actually and tangibly reduce emissions? The only real-world example we have is the EU's Emissions Trading System, set up in 2005. Conservatives take it as a given that the ETS has failed?see Martin Livermore' ;s Wall Street Journal column last week. But on closer inspection, the ETS seems to be working pretty well after a few early miscues, and there's plenty that American policymakers can learn from Europe's experience...A ccording to the European Environment Agency (EEA), the EU-15 has slashed emissions 5 percent below 1990 levels, and is on pace for a 11.3 percent cut by 2012?easily exceeding the 8 percent goal required by the Kyoto Protocol." ;
• NUR 422 Defending Science: SKAPP is based at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services. Read more about the project.
• A Closer Look At Those Climate Bill Giveaways... - Environment and Energy: Waxman-Markey may be better than some critics from the left are giving it credit for, on the auction-vs.-gi veaway issue. "Now, the House climate bill has been disparaged by environmentali sts for giving away about 85 percent of the permits under its cap-and-trade system for free, rather than auctioning them off. But, as Henry Waxman pointed out at the hearing today?and as Harvard economist Robert Stavins has written?this auction vs. giveaway debate is somewhat misleading. Stavins found that, when you look at where the permits actually go, about 83 percent of them are used for public purposes, and only 17 percent are straight handouts to favored companies... A hefty fraction of permits go to local electricity distributors. These utilities are regulated and, in order to receive free permits, must agree to pass on the savings to ratepayers.&qu ot;
• American Export Economy « Jon Taplin?s Blog: Recently my colleague Peter Loescher, the CEO of Siemens, extolled the importance of Germany as an exporting country. In my career, I have never heard an American CEO say that the United States should be leading in exports. Well, I am saying it today: This country ought to be, and we can be, not just the world?s leading market but a leading exporter as well.
• Review: The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett | Books | The Guardian: The Spirit Level : Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
• ISO 27001 Online
• Intel Social Media Guidelines
• The Carbonated Congress - WSJ.com: inside baseball on the Climate bill
• OWLSweb :: Links for Libraries :: Sample Library Policies

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