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6 Reflections on the Workshop
6 Reflections on the Workshop
Pages 22-24
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Karen Palmer followed by noting that any domestic climate policy that the United States would adopt will have associated mechanisms such as standards and subsidies to encourage energy efficiency. She concluded that we need more research to identify and characterize the market or behavioral failures that contribute to the socalled efficiency gap, so that we have a better understanding of what an appropriate role for policy might be.
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She noted that, as pointed out in the session on offsets, there can be many political and technical uncertainties associated with offsets. Steve Smith observed that although people might think that some of the more stringent climate targets are not realistic, to get even halfway to some of these targets will require a dramatic change from the historical trends in the energy system, which brings up a number of research questions.
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