David Victor Quoted in Innovation Policy Blog
On Making Innovation the Default Energy and Climate Policy Choice
09/23/2011
Innovation Policy Blog
The national energy and climate policy debate is broken. If it doesn’t get fixed, any new policy at the city, state, or national level may very well fail to address America’s energy challenges in any meaningful way.
So it’s time for a recalibration that makes innovation the driving goal of our default energy and climate policy choices. In doing so, the policy debate would become a more cohesive discussion on what correct, targeted long-term public investments should be made; whether our deployment policies are correctly aligned with our technology development policies, and whether there is synergy among our energy policies that creates a competitive U.S. energy market without long-term policy support. To be clear, this is not saying R&D is the only policy needed. Making innovation the default choice ensures that our suite of policy choices – from basic science through market creation - are correctly working together and are receiving the right amount of support to boost innovation, thus affordable clean technologies and economic growth. But doing do isn’t straightforward.
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David Victor is Director of the Laboratory on International Law and Regulation (ILAR). Looking across a wide array of issues from environment and energy to human rights, trade and security, the Laboratory explores when (and why) international laws actually work.
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