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I do agree that policymakers have to be concerned about dislocation and sectoral job losses and not just net job losses or gains. While AB 32 and other climate change and energy laws undoubtedly present opportunities and risks, it is not a given that there have to be "winners" and “losers".More

California’s Global Warming Solutions Act, more commonly referred to as AB 32, is a 2006 landmark piece of legislation aimed at reducing California’s greenhouse gas emissions in a manner that is both cost-effective and maximizes the economic benefits to the State. In the past week, however, a group has launched a ballot initiative to suspend the Act in the hopes of getting California’s economy “back on track” and “putting Californians to work”.More

At GreenBiz.com’s recent State of Green Business 2010 Forum, inventor Saul Griffith (MacArthur fellow, founder of OptiOpia and Wattzon.com) delivered a fascinating keynote on “Putting Numbers Behind Green Business.” More

I recently attended two conferences where the keynote speakers presented viewpoints on China and clean tech that were dramatically different in perspective. At the Sustainable Capital Forum in San Francisco the keynote was delivered by Steve Westly of the Westly Group venture capital firm (Westly is a former Controller of the State of California and eBay executive). More

On January 28, 2010, the U.S.-China Green Energy Council met in Palo Alto, California to discuss “Enterprise Carbon Accounting: A Real Market or A Cleantech Bubble?” About 50 people, including a number of visitors from Beijing and Shanghai, listened to speakers from PG&E, the City of Palo Alto, Hara Software, Carbonflow and Applied Materials.

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