China Likely to Fill Some, But Not All, of U.S. Climate Vacuum

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May 16, 2017

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Media Highlight

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Bloomberg BNA

"Although Obama’s policies also would likely have produced in the rosiest scenario a 22.6 percent to 24.9 percent reduction, Trump’s actions targeting those policies would result in only a 10.2 percent to 12.6 percent reduction from 2005 levels, according to a May 1 analysis by Resources for the Future analyst Marc Hafstead."

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Marc Hafstead is an RFF fellow and director of the Carbon Pricing Initiative and the Climate Finance and Financial Risk Initiative.

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