Cap-and-Trade
Climate Change and the Price of Carbon vs. a Price on Carbon [VIDEO]
Instead of charging polluters a fee for dumping their carbon dioxide into our shared atmosphere, we are all paying the cost of the consequences of attempting to store about 30 tons per year in our air.[read more]
South Korea May Launch World’s Most Ambitious Cap And Trade Market
With roughly 18 months until launch, South Korea appears ready to create the world’s most ambitious cap and trade market, with the highest global price on carbon.[read more]
Climate Change: Looking at 400 ppm and Beyond
Our goal to be avoided, 450 ppm, is now feeling a bit close for comfort, given we are already at 400 ppm and 300 ppm was only passed under the previous British monarch.[read more]
RGGI Still Falls Short of Real Carbon Pricing
RGGI’s new cap not only falls short of creating real price pressures due to its closeness to baseline emissions, its excessive compensatory measures, and its failure to deal with leakage, but also runs the risk of locking in emissions.[read more]
Climate Change Negotiations in Bonn and the Road to Paris and COP 21
The latest round of climate negotiations wound down with most delegates expressing guarded optimism that progress has been made toward laying the groundwork for an international agreement to be signed in 2015.[read more]
Collecting and Spending Carbon Emissions Revenue
Whether it is via the auction of allowances or the taxation of carbon emissions, climate policy is increasingly being seen as a source of revenue into the national treasury.[read more]
Climate Change and Europe's Carbon Emissions Failure
The uncomfortable reality is that no policies have been put in place anywhere in the world that have indicated an ability to accelerate rates of decarbonization to levels approaching 5 percent per year. This includes the EU ETS.[read more]
In Need of a Nudge? Carbon Tax and Making Polluters Pay
Nudges are the best kinds of policy interventions: minimum intrusion, maximum freedom of choice, maximum relative impact. But one area in which this idea comes up short is global warming. That solution would be making polluters pay.[read more]
Clean Energy Policy: A Three-Legged Stool
We need all three: Innovation, Deployment and a Price on Carbon. The right answer isn't one or two of these policy areas. Appropriate and comprehensive clean energy policy is a three-legged stool.[read more]
State of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
The fact that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme has fallen short of expectations has much more to do with unrealistic expectations than it does with a surprising decision by the European parliament.[read more]
EU Carbon Market Collapse Won’t Kill Cap And Trade
Declaring the death of carbon markets and cap and trade policy over Europe’s struggles is a knee-jerk reaction which overlooks significant developments for carbon trading around the world.[read more]
EU Parliament Voted No, So Now What for the Emissions Trading System?
While backloading was never the complete solution to the problems faced by the ETS, it could have given it enough momentum to pave the way to a more robust and economically efficient climate policy framework.[read more]
EU Parliament Rejects Carbon Market Solution
Yesterday, the European Union Parliament rejected a proposal to backload (or postpone) the auctioning of additional credits within the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.[read more]
Can We Afford a Carbon Tax?
The debate over a tax to curb greenhouse gas emissions has been raging on for years with no solutions in sight. Economists and scientists alike are conducting studies as to how a tax on carbon will affect the country’s bottom line.[read more]
Top 10 Reasons to “Backload” EU Emissions Trading System
It is clear that the Parliament vote next week on the Commission proposal to backload the auctioning timeline in Phase III of the European Emissions Trading System is going to be very close.[read more]
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“It is a false argument to compare to the USA experience: their reductions are caused by the switch to gas thanks to the present abundance of shale gas.Regarding the ETS: Don't blame the hammer for being a bad screwdriver! The ETS is doing exactly what you can expect from a cap-and-trade program. It decreases carbon emission following exactly the planned trajectory, for the lowest costs possible ...”
“It is going to take longer than 2 years to phase in any major extra supply to the grid.I'm sure in the longer term that solar, even by itself, could meet 100% of UK power. Several American company have started commercially converting sun light, water and CO2 into methanol with cyanobacterium, the methanol fuel can then be easily stored for use at 6PM on 12 of December.”