American Power Act of 2010 Evidence

Climate Change Policy Can Lead To Growth (PDF)

06/01/2010

Eban Goodstein, Kristen Sheeran,  Peter Dorman, John Laitner, Jonathan Isham. Economics for Equity & Enviroment. June 2010. 

“Climate Policy and Jobs: An Update on What Economists Know” shows that addressing climate change can lead to growth, even in the teeth of counterpressures (like worldwide recession), and that climate legislation is not a job killer. Short, sweet, and to the point. Many of the reports referenced in this fact sheet are included at length below.

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Climate Change Legislation Wouldn't Be A Job Killer (PDF)

10/01/2009

John Laitner. American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. October 2009.

"Climate Change Policy as an Economic Redevelopment Opportunity: The Role of Productive Investments in Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions” is an analysis of the impact climate change legislation would have on jobs. Laitner’s research report “is designed to set the record straight about the long-term economic impacts of cap-and-trade legislation.”

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The Mild Costs of Limiting Carbon Emissions

03/30/2009

Joe Romm. Climate Progress. March 30, 2009.

“Introduction to climate economics: Why even strong climate action has such a low dollar cost” opens with a link to the “definitive" 2007 study by the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change, which shows the very mild impact of limiting and stabilizing carbon emissions. In short, “global GDP drops by under 0.12% per year — about one tenth of a penny on the dollar." Both China and America under the Bush administration signed off on this analysis.

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