Richard Cowart, Emissions Trading in the US and EU

About this Event
22 Jun 2009
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Carbon Prices, Consumer Costs, and Efficiency Solutions Climate Action in the US and Ideas for the EU

About the speech:

Richard Cowart will outline how foundation policies for clean energy, and especially energy efficiency, are necessary for successful reductions in ghgs.

He will draw on his extensive experience advising the ten states of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the US Congress on the design of cap-and-trade systems, and draw lessons for the EU. In particular he will argue that a cap and invest strategy is the best approach to carbon revenues, especially if carbon revenues are recycled directly into programmatic energy efficiency measures.

About the speaker:

Richard Cowart is the Director of European Programs for the Regulatory Assistance Project. RAP has worked in more than 40 US states and has trained government officials in 16 other nations.

Prior to joining RAP Mr. Cowart served for 13 years as Commissioner and Chair of the Vermont Public Service Board, and for five years as an Assistant Professor of Planning and Environmental Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Over the past six years he has assisted the state and regional initiatives working to design carbon cap-and-trade programs in the US.

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News & Politics

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