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.
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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.
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Action 3
Begin to move towards tax
policies that without increasing overall tax burdens encourage employment and
economic opportunity while discouraging environmentally damaging decisions.
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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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