Thoughts on climate change

摘要

You said that the Brook-ings Institution publication, "Big Bets and Black Swans: Foreign Policy Challenges for President Obama's Second Term", does not include "a serious push on climate change" ("Time to engage", January 19th). However, the Brookings report does feature two separate papers that call on the Obama administration to take bold steps to address climate change. In "Black to Gold to Green", we urge the implementation of a carbon tax as a condition of enhanced fossil-fuel production and exports in the United States. We recommend that revenue raised from the tax be allocated to the development and deployment of carbon capture and sequestration and advanced battery storage, two technologies that are essential if the world is to make any meaningful progress on the challenge of climate change.