Scoring Business Climate Action a Dilemma as Paris Exit Looms

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Date

June 1, 2017

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Media Highlight

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Bloomberg BNA

"But the Trump administration’s actions thus far to rescind Obama’s climate agenda could cut those reductions in half. U.S. emissions would likely still decline by 2025 under Trump, but only in the range of a 10.2 percent to 12.6 percent reduction from 2005 levels, according to a May analysis by Resources for the Future analyst Marc Hafstead."

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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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