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2 Policymakers' Informational Needs
2 Policymakers' Informational Needs
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Addressing the issue Bob Marlay raised about confusing analyses of the Lieberman-Warner bill, Francisco de la Chesnaye stated that, to those familiar with the models, the disparities were largely and easily explained by differences in certain assumptions.1 Nevertheless, he stressed that analysts must do a better job of comparing analyses and communicating the insights from these comparisons. As an example, he presented a figure (Figure 1, top)
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Nat Keohane drew a distinction between analyses of specific bills, and what he called policy experiments whereby modelers manipulate aspects of a proposed bill in an attempt to demonstrate, for example, the effects of introducing higher CAFE standards. These experiments may increase confusion and are also not particularly useful, given that existing and proposed bills cannot be modified so easily.
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Finally, Peter Evans of GE pointed out that although several corporations have developed their own ways to analyze and plan for climate change impacts, they are also avid consumers of formal model outputs. An important consideration for modelers, particularly when they are thinking about reporting on outputs, is thus that in addition to the policy community, the business community is quite interested in learning about analytical work on designing models to estimate economic impacts.
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Modeling Policy Interactions Bob Shackleton pointed out that complicated interactions will inevitably occur between climate policies and policies developed to address a variety of other issues. This reality signals a need to analyze complementary measures, especially in the transportation sector (e.g., a low-carbon fuel standard)
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On the question of energy-intensive imports, Bob Shackleton noted that accounting for these will be one of the most important and persistent questions that must be addressed. Francisco de la Chesnaye urged more forward thinking on international linkages, such as how a U.S.
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