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Climate Change
Objective
Promote long-term financing, development, and deployment of cost-effective, innovative energy technologies that can be utilized when and where needed to address energy, security, and climate change challenges as well as long-range sustainability objectives, while at the same time assuring that what is done is not economically disruptive.
Summary of the Issue
Along with world economic growth, global greenhouse gas emissions are increasing. Regardless what this means for climate change, the private sector and Congress have expressed a very important common point of view, specifically: measures taken to address any stated climate change challenge—such as limiting greenhouse gas emissions to no more than double what they were in pre-industrial times—must not harm the United States economy.
If this key point of agreement continues to prevail in forthcoming Congressional debates, informed discussion may lead to an appreciation of the economic benefits and consequences of various proposed legislative courses of action. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce aims to help frame these discussions, and on behalf of business and industry, is working to discourage ill-conceived climate change policies and measures that could severely damage the security and economy of the United States. At the same time, the U.S. Chamber encourages positive measures, such as long-term technological innovation and long-term clean technology deployment.
U.S. Chamber Strategy
- Defeat proposed measures that are economically disruptive of business and industry activities.
- Resist ill-conceived legislation that creates regulatory and legislative obstacles to development and deployment of affordable, innovative energy technologies.
- Encourage measures that foster long-term technological innovation aimed at addressing energy, security, and climate change challenges as well as long-range sustainability objectives.
- Resist ill-conceived climate change policies and measures that could severely damage the security and economy of the United States.
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