{"id":3724,"date":"2012-11-12T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/?p=3724"},"modified":"2012-11-12T16:03:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T21:03:50","slug":"edfs-business-friendly-suggestions-for-fighting-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2012\/11\/12\/edfs-business-friendly-suggestions-for-fighting-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"EDF&#8217;s Business-Friendly Suggestions for Fighting Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been hearing the same question a lot lately \u2013 what should President Obama do in his second term to fight climate change? \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s online <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2012\/11\/a_business-friendly_climate_ag.html\">Harvard Business Review<\/a>, EDF\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/people\/eric-pooley\">Eric Pooley<\/a> has some thoughts on that subject. He&#8217;s laid out a five-point plan to help us address climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Those points range:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[F]rom no-brainer ideas almost everyone can agree on to ambitious items that would require Congressional action<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And they all have one thing in common \u2013 they are business friendly.<\/p>\n<p>As Eric puts it:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is worth remembering that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.us-cap.org\/\">strong business support<\/a> helped secure passage of the House climate bill in 2009, and though that effort failed in the Senate, no serious legislation can move without the backing of men and women in the engine room of the American economy. To be politically viable, climate solutions must be economically sustainable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s the (very) short version of Eric\u2019s plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feed the conversation<\/li>\n<li>Reduce climate accelerants<\/li>\n<li>Start a clean energy race<\/li>\n<li>Use the Clean Air Act<\/li>\n<li>Put a price on carbon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to read the whole plan, you can find it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2012\/11\/a_business-friendly_climate_ag.html\">A Business-Friendly Climate Agenda for Obama&#8217;s Second Term<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve been hearing the same question a lot lately \u2013 what should President Obama do in his second term to fight climate change? \u00a0 In today\u2019s online Harvard Business Review, EDF\u2019s Eric Pooley has some thoughts on that subject. He&#8217;s laid out a five-point plan to help us address climate change. 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