Hi GEP folks -

It’s easy to get depressed about climate change, but parts off the solution are 
available to political leaders right now. Today, Brown University’s new Climate 
Solutions Lab is releasing a report 
<https://watson.brown.edu/files/watson/imce/news/explore/2020/Final%20CSL%20Report.pdf>
 with 10 recommendations to the next U.S. president — see below. 

I’d be thrilled if you read it, share it, Tweet it, and write about it.

Jeff Colgan
Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science
Web: www.jeffcolgan.com <http://www.jeffcolgan.com/>   Twitter: @JeffDColgan


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> Subject: Presidential Climate Action on Day One: A Foreign Policy Guide for 
> the Next U.S. President
> Date: October 8, 2020 at 9:35:23 AM GMT-4
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> New Brown Climate Solutions Lab Calls for Executive Action on Climate Change 
> 
> A comprehensive report released by faculty at Brown University today, titled, 
> Presidential Climate Action on Day One: A Foreign Policy Guide for the Next 
> U.S. President, issues a sweeping set of recommended actions, both domestic 
> and international, to address climate change, this century's defining global 
> challenge. 
> 
> "Despite the doom and gloom you sometimes hear, the U.S. federal government 
> is not helpless to address climate change. There are many actions that the 
> Executive Branch can take, even without help from the Congress," said Jeff D. 
> Colgan, Director of the Climate Solutions Lab and the Richard Holbrooke 
> Associate Professor of Political Science at the Watson Institute for 
> International and Public Affairs. Presidential leadership must drive these 10 
> recommended policy changes. The report urges the United States to make 
> changes domestically, collaborate and coordinate with foreign allies, and 
> apply appropriate pressures to persuade reluctant foreign actors to engage. 
> Colgan co-authored the October report with Fred Shaia, a Ph.D. student and 
> Presidential Fellow in the Department of Political Science at Brown 
> University, after extensive discussions with nationally-known climate change 
> experts at Brown University and across the country. 
> 
> Because former Vice President Joe Biden has issued the most assertive climate 
> change plan in U.S. history - surpassing efforts by President Barack Obama - 
> the report recognizes the Biden campaign's climate commitments and proposes 
> 10 additional recommended actions. Regardless of who wins the election, 
> Colgan said, "The report contains recommendations that Democrats and 
> Republicans can work together on, such as a climate club that commits to 
> deliver a carbon emissions tax, which has gained support on both sides of the 
> political aisle." To that end, the report will be sent to Congressional 
> lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Biden climate policy advisors, and 
> nonpartisan think tanks such as Brookings, American Enterprise Institute and 
> the Niskanen Center. It provides a timely and meaningful roadmap for the next 
> president to implement and enforce climate change solutions. 
> 
> Most of these recommendations can be done through Executive Orders, rather 
> than legislative actions, added Colgan, so they can be implemented on Day 1 
> of the new presidential administration. Rejoining the Paris Climate Accord - 
> which Biden has already committed to doing - and the World Health 
> Organization, and elevating climate change action to WHO's top priority are 
> just two examples. 
>  
> Some domestic recommendations include:
> Direct the Federal Reserve to address systemic financial risks created by 
> climate change by taking specific actions that are detailed in the report; and
> Declare a U.S. national climate emergency, including using military funding 
> to secure and decarbonize the electricity grid, accelerate the expansion of 
> clean energy technologies and issue loan guarantees to clean energy 
> developers and utilities; and
> Mitigate other climate risks to the domestic financial system.  
> 
> International recommendations, among others, are:
> Create an international "Climate Club" of countries collectively committing 
> to reducing emissions, penalizing non-participants through carbon tariffs and 
> strengthening the World Trade Organization. 
> Launch a new partnership with the world's 10 leading democracies and make 
> climate change a core priority;
> Protect the Amazon rain forest by working with Brazil and the international 
> community; and
> 
> "Domestic policy and foreign policy must work together, hand-in-glove. Each 
> policy is weaker without the other," cautioned Colgan. "Continued inaction by 
> the United States is very worrisome." According to the United Nations 
> Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world must reduce our carbon 
> emissions by 50 percent by 2030 if we are to avoid further climate damages -- 
> greater than the recurrent fires, hurricanes and floods that have already 
> left parts of the world devastated. 
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