Supply, demand and polarization challenges facing US climate policies

Matthew Burgess, Leaf Boven (), Gernot Wagner (), Gabrielle Wong-Parodi (), Kyri Baker, Maxwell Boykoff, Benjamin A. Converse, Lisa Dilling, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Yoel Inbar, Ezra Markowitz, Jonathan D. Moyer, Peter Newton, Kaitlin T. Raimi, Trisha Shrum and Michael P. Vandenbergh
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Leaf Boven: University of Colorado
Gernot Wagner: Columbia University
Gabrielle Wong-Parodi: Stanford University
Kyri Baker: University of Colorado
Maxwell Boykoff: University of Colorado
Benjamin A. Converse: University of Virginia
Lisa Dilling: University of Colorado
Jonathan M. Gilligan: Vanderbilt University
Yoel Inbar: University of Toronto Scarborough
Ezra Markowitz: University of Massachusetts
Jonathan D. Moyer: University of Denver
Peter Newton: University of Colorado
Kaitlin T. Raimi: University of Michigan
Trisha Shrum: University of Vermont
Michael P. Vandenbergh: Vanderbilt University

Nature Climate Change, 2024, vol. 14, issue 2, 134-142

Abstract: Abstract The United States recently passed major federal laws supporting the energy transition. Analyses suggest that their successful implementation could reduce US emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels by 2030. However, achieving maximal emissions reductions would require frictionless supply and demand responses to the laws’ incentives and implementation that avoids polarization and efforts to repeal or undercut them. In this Perspective, we discuss some of these supply, demand and polarization challenges. We highlight insights from social science research, and identify open questions needing answers, regarding how to address these challenges. The stakes are high. The success of these new laws could catalyse virtuous cycles in the energy transition; their failure could breed cynicism about major government spending on climate change.

Date: 2024
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