Comparing and Assessing Efforts to Limit Emissions

Faculty fellow Billy Pizer told John Munson, guest host of Wisconsin NPR’s Joy Cardin Show, that a climate deal in which national emissions reduction commitments are based on cuts from 1990 levels may not be that helpful. More fruitful is how much countries are doing now to reduce their emissions. The best outcome, he said, is a deal that everyone feels good about and that produces a mechanism that makes action on commitments transparent.

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