Stavins Keen to Strike a Balance

Interview with Robert Stavins

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This article was originally published in Upstream on 18 January 2008 and is protected by copyright.

"'I'm fairly optimistic about climate change,' he says....'I believe the nations of the world will get in place policies to accelerate the transition to low carbon technologies.' The US, as the biggest emitter of greenhouse gases and one of the world's biggest innovators, will have to take the lead on this, but Stavins believes Americans are now galvanised by climate change concerns."

The author of this article, Terry Slavin, can be contacted at terryslavin@yahoo.co.uk.