Climate Economics

No continent left behind

Climate talks should not focus on China and India at Africa’s expense 0
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago
As the international community prepares to negotiate a new international climate treaty, extending the Clean Development Mechanism and modifying it to better serve African nations must be a priority.
Cap, Trade and Skeletons

Did Waxman-Markey’s ancestors really deliver on their promises? 10
Posted 4 months, 4 weeks ago
President Obama is betting that a cap-and-trade program can help solve the climate crisis. Southern California leaders hoped the same thing when they set up a cap-and-trade program to clean up the region's air. The results? See above.
Letter from Europe

Nicholas Stern’s heresy: conceding the West’s climate burden 2
Posted 5 months, 3 weeks ago
Breaking ranks with the West's climate talking points, Lord Nicholas Stern says the world's rich nations should shoulder some of the costs of cutting emissions in the rapidly developing world (i.e. China and India).
Video From The world Business Summit on Climate Change 0
Posted 6 months ago
That 40 Percent is for U.S. Households, Not Polluters

Protecting Consumers Under a Carbon Cap 0
Posted 6 months, 4 weeks ago
Same polluters, new deceit

Industry spin on climate is still working on media 1
Posted 7 months ago
New York Times reporter Andy Revkin has a blockbuster story showing that the Global Climate Coalition, the main industry group that spent much of the 1990s seeking to sow doubt in journalists' and politicians' minds about the reality of climate change, knew all along that it was real and dangerous.