Image: Barack Obama by Nick Knupffer Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Obama's energy legacy
Two articles by Howard Bamsey and Frank Jotzo write that while this new climate plan won’t solve Obama’s climate change dilemma, it will make a difference to the US energy system and force other countries, like Australia, to reconsider their own strategies.
“Obama’s Clean Power Plan uses federal powers of pollution regulation to impose emissions targets for carbon dioxide from power stations for each of the 50 US states. It is left up to each state how to achieve it, a smart move that can help with political acceptability.
“It ought to be taken seriously in Canberra,” write Bamsey and Jotzo in The Interpreter.
Read both articles in The Conversation and The Interpreter.
Image: Barack Obama by Nick Knupffer Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
