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Mission
Americans for Equitable Climate Solutions (AECS)
is an independent, bipartisan, non-profit organization incorporated in
June 2000 to develop policies to counter global warming. The AECS mission
is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change,
particularly carbon dioxide, in ways that are consistent with long-term
economic growth and principles of economic equity.
To achieve that goal, AECS will develop a comprehensive U.S. policy to
combat global warming, create a realistic political strategy for
implementing the policy, and build a centrist political constituency for
realizing the strategy.
The AECS policy development strategy will evolve over at least five years
because both the ripening of political circumstances and the process of
developing climate solutions could require that much time. Both policy
development and political events must converge before effective policy
options can be implemented.
The five-year AECS strategy for meeting the global warming policy
challenge is guided by several key principles:
• A domestic carbon emissions control policy must go beyond voluntarism
and harness the market mechanism to the task of emissions reduction.
• A carbon emissions control policy should use price incentives to
encourage long-term technological innovation.
• An effective U.S. climate policy must include a credible plan for
reducing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions in developing countries.
• The policy must function independently of the Kyoto Protocol, yet be
capable of co-existing with it.
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