SAB Biomass CO2 Panel Faces Criticism Over Plan To Back Economic Model

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Sept. 15, 2015

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"But panelist Roger Sedjo of Resources For the Future urged the SAB panel to add the language endorsing the economic model, arguing that they favored a model that considers 'human responses' to a system rather than no human responses. The way to assess those responses is to use an economic model that 'has an investment component . . . and is related to what's happening to the basic ecosystem. . . . It won't take a lot to put in a few sentences rationalizing the appropriateness of an economic approach,' Sedjo said on the call."

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