Cross Cutting Relationships

Action 1

Support the development and deployment of systems and institutions that assemble information about available incentives and options to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to enable easier and more effective choices of climate- friendly technologies.

Action 2

Pursue export policies that foster cleaner infrastructure in less developed countries and stimulate opportunities for domestic manufacturers of climate-friendly technologies to lower the cost of their products through economies of scale. These policies should pay special attention to the sustainable development and climate protection needs of developing nations.

Action 3

Begin to move towards tax policies that without increasing overall tax burdens encourage employment and economic opportunity while discouraging environmentally damaging decisions.

Action 4

As an extension of previous studies on environmentally and economically damaging subsidies, and building on previous Council recommendations, establish a national commission to review the effect of federal tax and subsidy policies on the goal of climate protection. In Sustainable America, the Council recommended that this commission: should review all existing tax and spending subsides to determine if a national need remains to continue individual subsidies. . .[and]. . .should recommend to the President a list of subsidies that fail to meet this test and should be phased out or rapidly eliminated.
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