Cap-and-Trade

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To date, the Kyoto Protocol under the UNFCCC is the only route we have had to creating something of a global carbon market. Two new cornerstones of the international discussion, could effectively work together.[read more]

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America’s first functioning cap-and-trade program recently marked its sixth anniversary with perhaps its strongest auctions yet – but exponentially greater success may be just around the corner.[read more]

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Aviation’s contribution to climate change is projected to almost triple by 2050 without any new action.[read more]

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Many think we are destined to become a natural gas nation because natural gas is considered a bridge fuel from coal to the non-fossil fuels.[read more]

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The majority of biofuel development to date has been driven by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in the United States and the ethanol program in Brazil, Proálcool. These programs have created a burgeoning ethanol industry, and the RFS program has gone slightly further to provide additional support for biodiesel and to lay the groundwork for next generation biofuels like cellulosic ethanol.[read more]

Most approaches to emissions control rest on the assumption that responding to climate change depends on managing the rate of emissions from the global economy, not how the atmosphere sees our emissions of CO2.[read more]

With discussions about climate change and energy policy reemerging in Washington, it's important to remember that in the passage of the last fiscal cliff deal, Congress extended one of the most influential policies for wind energy.[read more]

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The ETS was designed and implemented as the principal pricing mechanism to guide investment in power generation and industrial facilities across the EU such that long term CO2 reduction goals could be met at the lowest cost to society.[read more]

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Over the last week or so, there has been a resurgence of what is becoming a classic debate between very smart people about the tension between clean energy innovation and deployment. Pragmatically speaking, there is no benefit to allowing differences on messaging style to interfere with coalition building around policies.[read more]

Sonja Van Renssen met with the European Commission’s Director General for Climate Action, Jos Delbeke, to discuss his vision for a 2030 Climate and Energy Package for Europe.[read more]

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The EU doesn’t currently have an explicit carbon price to drive change in energy and infrastructure investment, despite 10 years of policy in place designed with that single goal in mind.[read more]

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Two visions for the future of American energy policy: Fred Krupp, of the Environmental Defense Fund, and Ted Nordhaus, of the Breakthrough Institute, squared off in a lively debate Tuesday at the 3rd annual Energy Innovation Conference.[read more]

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In his inaugural address on January 21st, President Obama surprised many people – including me – by the intensity and the length of his comments on global climate change. Since then, there has been a great deal of discussion in the press and in the blogosphere about what climate policy initiatives will be forthcoming from the administration in its second term.[read more]

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I understand why fossil-fuel-funded conservatives assert that climate change is “liberal.” By why do the Associated Press and Washington Post fall into the label trap? Now even Rasmussen, a firm with a well-known conservative bias, found in a poll the day before the election that 68% of American voters see global warming as a “serious problem.”[read more]

California’s CO2 emissions fell in 2011 for the third straight year, putting the state in a good position for meeting its target of reducing carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, according to the California Air Resources Board (CARP) and as mandated by California AB32 (the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006). Since businesses...[read more]