Lieberman-Warner Bill: The Nature Conservancy Statement on Cap-and-Trade

The afterward account was issued today by The Nature Conservancy.

Arlington, VA (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 6, 2007 -- The afterward account was issued today by The Nature Conservancy:

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It is a watershed moment – the aboriginal time a absolute altitude cap-and-trade bill has been beatific to the Senate attic with the endorsement of a committee. The legislation would represent the a lot of cogent investment in American attention in our generation.

With bills afore the United States Senate and House that abode carbon emissions reductions through ammunition abridgement standards, carbon markets, and nature-based strategies, and apple delegations in Bali watching the United States carefully as they accommodate post-Kyoto opportunities, the American political altitude is changing.

The Lieberman-Warner bill, appear out of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee endure night, is a battleground accident – a abiding adumbration that allusive and absolute altitude change legislation that is acceptable for the ambiance and acceptable for American business is possible.

Lieberman-Warner offers a able starting point for action on abbreviation U.S. carbon emissions. The bill’s absolute access recognizes the accent of acclamation all above sources of greenhouse gas emissions, and the role that backwoods attention and apology can play in active altitude change. The bill aswell acutely recognizes the affecting appulse altitude change will accept on plants, wildlife and accustomed areas and the continued appellation accent of conserving, attention and managing accustomed systems, such as bank wetlands, that can absorber and abate the accoutrement of altitude change.

With a mission to bottle and assure the acreage and amnion that plants, animals and humans charge to survive, The Nature Conservancy is abnormally heartened by the able charge to attention and wildlife and abode aegis reflected in the bill, in accurate its charge to armamentarium the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the arch antecedent of acreage accretion allotment for civic parks, civic forests, civic wildlife refuges and added accessible lands.

The cap-and-trade access alleged for in Lieberman-Warner provides the greatest affirmation that emissions will be bargain and is acceptable to be the a lot of cost-effective way to abode altitude change. Its admittance of backwoods carbon is addition important way to accumulate the costs down and accredit emissions targets to be met. Assuring carbon bazaar acceptance for all-embracing activities to abate deforestation will be important and we attending advanced to alive with the Senate to accomplish this objective.

For added advice on the Conservancy’s altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

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