Dr. Noah Kaufman | Citizens' Climate Lobby | January 2021 Monthly Meeting

As we gear up for reintroduction of carbon-fee-and-dividend legislation in the new Congress, we heard from economist Dr. Noah Kaufman, lead author of the 2019 Columbia University assessment of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. The study confirmed the effectiveness of the bill from both an environmental and economic perspective. Dr. Kaufman is Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia, leading research focused on climate change policies. He also teaches a course on Energy Decarbonization. During the Obama administration, he served as the Deputy Associate Director of Energy & Climate Change at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Helpful Links: 
Near-term to net zero alternative to the social cost of carbon for setting carbon prices," Nature Climate Change:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-020-0880-3 
Expanding the Reach of A Carbon Tax - Emissions Impacts of Pricing Combined with Additional Climate Actions: 
https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/sites/default/files/file-uploads/CarbonComplement_CGEP-Report_101920.pdf 
Interactions between a Federal Carbon Tax and Other Climate Policies:
https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/research/report/interactions-between-federal-carbon-tax-and-other-climate-policies 
Dr. Alex Barron explains "Near Term to Net Zero:" A New Approach To Setting Carbon Prices for CCL Ann Arbor event: https://community.citizensclimate.org/events/item/2570/5270