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Can Market Forces Really be Employed to Address Climate Change?
Debate continues in the United States, Europe, and throughout the world about whether the forces of the marketplace can be harnessed in the interest of environmental protection, in particular, to address the threat of global climate change. In an essay that appears in the Spring 2012 issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American...[read more]
Audio & Slides: "How to Save a Planet On a Budget" Part 1 - Carbon Markets
Welcome to the audio archive & slides for the first chunk of our green finance summit "How To Save The Planet on A Budget". This first session focuses on carbon: 1. Carbon: Pricing It, Taxing It + Trading It, Moderated by Gernot Wagner Featuring: Janet Peace, Lee Thiessen, Lucas Merrill Brown[read more]
Upsetting the Offset
Note by David Levy, Climate Inc. editor: I’m posting this introduction to a new book, Upsetting the Offset by my academic colleagues Steffen Böhm and Sidhartha Dabhi because it presents an important and well-argued series of critiques of the carbon markets. Many readers might find that they disagree with the analysis in the book, but it...[read more]
Are carbon credit markets inherently prone to fraud and manipulation?
The headlines about fraud in Europe’s carbon credit trading system (2010: “Fraud Besets E.U. Carbon Trade System,” 2009: “Europol: $7.4 Billion Lost from Carbon Trading Fraud in Europe“) seem to confirm what some critics of carbon credit trading have been saying all along (2007: “Carbon Trading Open Invitation To Fraud,” 2007: “The...[read more]
Regional carbon markets have a tough go of it in a global economy
Banks and investors are pulling out of the carbon market after the failure to make progress at Copenhagen on reaching new emissions targets after 2012. Carbon financiers have already begun leaving banks in London because of the lack of activity and the drop-off in investment demand. via www.theecologist.org Because carbon is a...[read more]
Breaking: Sen. Dorgan (D-ND) to retire and what it means for climate legislation
Sen. Byron Dorgan, a 18-year veteran Democrat, dropped a late-day bombshell, announcing he will retire when his term ends this year. Dorgan’s announcement represents an opportunity for Republicans: North Dakota is a Republican-leaning state, where President Obama got just 45% of the vote last year. What’s not good news for...[read more]
Barbour utterly misquotes McKinsey — which believes climate action is low-cost — and tries to scare public with wildly implausible Chinese scheme to manipulate the emissions market
As expected, dirty energy lobbyist-turned-Governor Haley Barbour never once mentioned the devastation his “drill, baby, drill” energy policy would cause (see “Mississippi burning — and flooding: Haley Barbour to be remembered as man who gave his state 90°F temps 5 months a year plus countless Katrinas?“). Masochists can read his...[read more]
Reforming carbon offsets, a continuing series
The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit has released its annual report on the state of the carbon market. The report summarizes the broader carbon market, with primary focus on two areas: the allowance market in Europe (the EU Emission Trading Scheme, or ETS) and the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the primary global offset market. As...[read more]
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