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Highlighting the National Security Impact of Climate Change
posted by Louis McCoy on February 2, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Check out this post from the Wall Street Journal’s “Environmental Capital” blog. Citing a new paper by Harvard University’s Jeffrey Frankel, the Wall Street Journal asks how the U.S. Congress can draft a climate control bill while not pushing us into a “trade war.” Â
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Bernard Finel tackles this issue in a recent essay on World Politics Review, stating that the “United States should strengthen the implementation of the any internationally negotiated treaty on climate change by supporting a series of mandatory tariffs against imports from countries that exceed their carbon quotas.”
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ASP Board Member and U.S. Senator John Kerry also voiced his concern during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that “climate change will be increasingly central to our foreign policy” as climate change would potentially lead to conflicts related to the demand for resources.Â
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Relevant Reports
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[REPORT] Six Decades of Civilian Fusion Research Has Produced Major Technological Advances in the U.S. -
[REPORT SERIES] Pay Now, Pay Later: A State-by-State Assessment of the Costs of Climate Change -
[REPORT] Climate Change and Immigration: Warnings for America’s Southern Border -
[REPORT] ASP and Sierra Club Release Joint Report Outlining Dangers of Our Reliance on Foreign Oil and the Need for a New Transportation Infrastructure
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