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Carbon Pricing: League of Women Voters Forum
How much do we pay for carbon pollution and what
impact does that price have?
The price of carbon pollution and its effect on climate change
will be debated at a public forum Tuesday, Nov. 19, at Babson College.
Steve Curwood,
Pulitzer-Prize-winning host of NPR’s “Living on Earth,” will moderate the
“Pricing Carbon” forum. The forum is
free and open to the public.
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Dr. Fritz Fleischmann,
professor of English, Babson College, and Dr. Theda Skocpol, professor of
government and sociology, Harvard University, will open the forum.
They will then join a
panel discussion with Dr. Joseph Aldy, assistant professor of public policy,
Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; Dr. John Reilly, senior
lecturer and co-director of the Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, Center for Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of
Management; and Dr. Gary Rucinski, New England coordinator, Citizens Climate Lobby.
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This panel will
discuss the variety of carbon pricing options that have been proposed and are
being tried, and the impact of those options on climate change, revenues,
individuals and industries. The panel
will then take questions from the audience.
sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Wellesley, and co-sponsored by the
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts and the League of Women Voters of
Needham. Citizens Climate Lobby is also
a co-sponsor.
For further information visit lwvma.org.
