do-nothing policy

“If we quantify the damages associated with the do-nothing policy, you’ll see that typically, at the end of the day, the bill plus the interest costs are going to be less than the cost if we do nothing,” said Kurt Schwabe, an environmental economics and policy professor at the University of California-Riverside.

If a do-nothing policy is what some voters liked, they’ll certainly get more of that should Trump get elected: He’s vowed to dismantle Biden’s landmark climate law, with its clean energy projects, and “drill, baby, drill.”

Implicitly, Republicans favored a do-nothing policy.

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A do-nothing policy would lead to a reduction in lending of €4.5tn.