For Immediate Release
December 2, 2008 Contact: Ellie Collinson (719) 331-8291
MEDIA ADVISORY
New Online Resource on Climate Change and Economics to Launch in Washington, D.C.
ClimateChangeEconomics.net to provide groundbreaking objective online research tool for legislators, regulators
and policy analysts
Washington, D.C.- The E.P. Systems Group, Inc., along with representatives of the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators (NCEL) including Iowa State Senator Joe Bolkcom, will announce the launch of ClimateChangeEconomics.net, a website of objective resources and tools dedicated to addressing the carbon intensity of our economy through effective climate change policy, on December 11th in Washington, D.C.
ClimateChangeEconomics.net will provide regulators, legislators, and policy analysts access to a comprehensive clearinghouse of objective information from the work of diverse experts and experience across the globe for the purpose of informing policy choices in the fifty states, regional and local communities, emphasizing resources of value to legislative decision makers.
E.P. Systems President and Chief Economist Dr. Peter B. Meyer will introduce ClimateChangeEconomics.net and give a tour of the resources it provides, including a specific reference area designed to assist legislators with uncovering biased assumptions and potential flaws in presented testimony and analyses.
Who: Dr. Peter B. Meyer and Dr. Kristen R. Yount, E.P. Systems Group, Inc.
Joe Bolkcom, Iowa State Senator
Adam Schaefer, Executive Director of the NCEL
What: Launch of ClimateChangeEconomics.net
Where: The National Press Club
529 14th St. NW, 13th floor,
Washington, D.C.
When: Thursday, December 11th
10 a.m.
The E.P. Systems Group, Inc. is a small economic and environmental planning and policy development and analysis firm based in northern Kentucky with projects focused on sustainable development by examining the economic, social and environmental consequences of ecosystem and climate change along with possible ameliorative private and public policy solutions.
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