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Title: A compendium of options for government policy to encourage private sector responses to potential climate change

Abstract

Volume 1 of this report evaluated generic policy instruments according to the criteria of efficiency information requirements, distributional effects, political sustainability, and applicability to greenhouse gas issues. This volume describes policies specific to the various components of the private sector and evaluates options for the implementation of policies according to a further set of screening criteria more suitable for specific instances or applications of the instruments. The description of the private sector in this volume is confined to qualitative analysis of the constraints and opportunities arising from existing materials, processes, markets, and regulatory frameworks that are likely to shape its response to the prospect of global warming. Materials include fuels as well as other substantive material and energy inputs and outputs for the sector. For example, steel production involves iron ore, coal, perhaps electricity, and the finished product. Processes are the activities by which a sector satisfies demands for its goods and services. For example, fossil fuel combustion is a major process in the utilities sector, while fertilizer production and application are both important processes for agriculture. Markets in this context include both capital markets which finance the activities of the private sector and the markets in which commodities andmore » services are traded and consumed. The regulatory framework quite simply is the nexus of legal constraints on entry to an activity and the rules by which the government, or alternative regulatory agency, for example, a public utility commission, controls the activities of a sector. 387 refs., 15 figs., 18 tabs.« less

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Environment, Safety, and Health, Washington, DC (USA). Office of Environmental Analysis
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/EH
OSTI Identifier:
5518928
Report Number(s):
DOE/EH-0103-Vol.2
ON: DE90000996
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: Report to the Congress of the United States
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; CLIMATES; VARIATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRIES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; AGRICULTURE; AMBIENT TEMPERATURE; ANTHROPOLOGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; COMMERCIAL SECTOR; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; GLOBAL ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; IRRIGATION; MANUFACTURING; MODIFICATIONS; PROGRAM MANAGEMENT; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; RESIDENTIAL SECTOR; TRANSPORTATION SECTOR; CARBON COMPOUNDS; CARBON OXIDES; CHALCOGENIDES; ENERGY SOURCES; FUELS; INDUSTRY; MANAGEMENT; MATHEMATICS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; 520200* - Environment, Aquatic- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989); 320900 - Energy Conservation, Consumption, & Utilization- Education & Public Relations- (1980-); 990230 - Mathematics & Mathematical Models- (1987-1989); 290300 - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment, Health, & Safety; 293000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Policy, Legislation, & Regulation

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. A compendium of options for government policy to encourage private sector responses to potential climate change. United States: N. p., 1989. Web. doi:10.2172/5518928.
. A compendium of options for government policy to encourage private sector responses to potential climate change. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5518928
. 1989. "A compendium of options for government policy to encourage private sector responses to potential climate change". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5518928. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5518928.
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