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Keep it simple, stupid!
How to structure a cap-and-trade program |
Clark Williams-Derry |
05 Dec 2007 |
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| From an awesomely meaty article on cap-and-trade from The San Francisco Chronicle comes this pearl of wisdom (in bold at the bottom of the quote): [T]he lesson of the acid rain program is to keep the plan simple and easy for all parties to understand. "If it starts to employ a lot of special provisions to take care of every party's special needs ... and if it starts to look like the Chicago phone book, then throw it out," [RFF economist Dallas ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics) |
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