{"id":689,"date":"2009-02-09T14:09:28","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T19:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/02\/09\/climate-policy-spurs-innovation\/"},"modified":"2009-02-23T16:53:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T21:53:57","slug":"climate-policy-spurs-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/2009\/02\/09\/climate-policy-spurs-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Policy Spurs Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDF has been saying for years that the best way to invent new, greener energy technology is to put a cap on carbon pollution. That approach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edf.org\/page.cfm?tagID=1085\">worked to combat acid rain<\/a> in the 1990s, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cerna.ensmp.fr\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=192&amp;Itemid=288\">a new study<\/a> provides the best evidence yet that it&#8217;s working for climate policy, too.<\/p>\n<p>The study compared countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol and ones that didn&#8217;t, and guess which group had more new green tech patents?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/climate411\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/7\/files\/2009\/02\/6a00d83451bd4869e201053711bf3e970b-500pi.jpg\" alt=\"Chart comparing patents in countries that did and did not ratify the Kyoto Protocal.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I posted an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.env-econ.net\/2009\/02\/climate-policy-does-wonders-for-your-greentech-patent-count.html\">overview of the findings, including a couple more charts<\/a> and additional analysis I got from the authors, over at Environmental Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDF has been saying for years that the best way to invent new, greener energy technology is to put a cap on carbon pollution. 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