{"id":6076,"date":"2024-10-31T02:33:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T02:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/2024\/10\/31\/how-to-spend-one-trillion-dollars-the-us-decarbonization-conundrum\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:14:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T18:14:37","slug":"how-to-spend-one-trillion-dollars-the-us-decarbonization-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/centers\/2024\/10\/31\/how-to-spend-one-trillion-dollars-the-us-decarbonization-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head>\n<\/head><body><h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why we must treat decarbonization policies as an experiment and put in place measures now to evaluate what works best.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/business.cornell.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/06\/New-Picture.jpg\" alt=\"News Picture\" class=\"wp-image-111088\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-024-03474-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"external\">How to spend one trillion dollars: the US decarbonization conundrum (nature.com)<\/a> was published 29 October 2024 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"external\">Nature Portfolio<\/a>. 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