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Fortune Brainstorm Green	David Roberts	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I flew down to Pasadena today for the Fortune Brainstorm: Green conference. There's tons of interesting stuff on the agenda -- a mix of corporate types and NGO types, technology and policy topics. I'm moderating a panel on Monday night called "Meet the Rabble Rousers," an informal discussion wherein activists answer questions about the rabble they've roused. It stars Mike Brune of the Rainforest Action Network, Sister Patricia A. Daly of the ...
Topics: environmental movement, business, climate, greenish companies, Greenpeace (all these topics)

We'll Always Have Paris Meeting of major economies ends with little progress		18 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 2:42 PM on 18 Apr 2008 A U.S.-led gathering of major economies in Paris this week concluded, as previous meetings have done, with little progress. The 17 countries bashed President Bush's climate speech for a while, then argued about whether to set a goal of halving global greenhouse-gas emissions by 2050. (Guess who's against it?) French president Nicolas Sarkozy made himself quoteworthy, saying that climate ...
Topics: business, climate, international politics, news, politics (all these topics)

Google checks out Earth Day Google Checkout maps the spread of donations and Earth Day lovin'	Ashley Braun	17 Apr 2008	Gristmill
I think Google has a crush on the planet. First, they announced a goal of achieving carbon neutrality for 2007 and beyond. Then, they unleashed their RE<C campaign (Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal), aimed at producing one gigawatt of clean electricity more cheaply than coal. Next, you may have noticed their blacked-out search page on March 29, in support of Earth Hour, the global awareness movement to turn out the lights and turn up action on climate change. ...
Topics: business, carbon neutral, climate, green living, greenish companies, shopping, tech (all these topics)

Cheap clean coal now dirty, expensive	David Roberts	13 Apr 2008	Gristmill
The WSJ energy blog points out that skyrocketing demand for coal in the developing world is rapidly driving up the commodity price. (And WSJ proper points out that rising prices for coal mean rising prices for steel.) Meanwhile, Reuters says 'clean coal' is 'elusive' and the head of one of Australia's biggest energy companies -- AGL -- says that coal's days are numbered: ... Michael Fraser said it is unlikely any new coal generators will be built without significa ...
Topics: Australia, business, carbon sequestration, climate, coal, energy (all these topics)

Breaking the Bank World Bank should get out of carbon-offset market, says report		11 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 3:48 PM on 11 Apr 2008 Carbon-offset dealings by the World Bank have been criticized (and not for the first time) in a report released Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies. In the past two years, the report charges, the bank has loaned $1.5 billion to fossil-fuel companies to make minor greenhouse-gas reductions. It then sells carbon credits for those reductions, says coauthor Daphne Wysham, " ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, energy, fossil fuels, news, World Bank (all these topics)

The technologies needed to beat 450 ppm, Part 1 Examining the IPCC's 'portfolio of technologies'	Joseph Romm	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill
In 2007, the IPCC wrote [PDF] in its Working Group III summary (page 16): The range of stabilization levels assessed can be achieved by deployment of a portfolio of technologies that are currently available and those that are expected to be commercialised in coming decades. This assumes that appropriate and effective incentives are in place for development, acquisition, deployment and diffusion of technologies, and for addressing related barriers (high agreement, ...
Topics: agriculture, business, carbon sequestration, climate, energy, green building, IPCC (all these topics)

Herald Ford Ford lays out how it will reduce fleet emissions		09 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 10:11 AM on 09 Apr 2008 Ford Motor Co. has laid out specific plans for reducing the greenhouse-gas emissions of its vehicle fleet at least 30 percent by 2020. The announcement comes in response to shareholder resolutions filed by members of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (representing about 300 religious investors) and the Investor Network on Climate Risk, organized by green-minded investment group Ceres. S ...
Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, religion and spirituality (all these topics)

Asking the right question The implicit assumption in Pielke Jr.'s Nature commentary	David Roberts	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Can we beat global warming with existing technology? I said here that "nobody believes" we have the technology available today to tackle global warming. Gar responded: yes, someone believes it, namely me. Lindsay Meisel from the Breakthrough Institute responded: yes, lots of enviros seem to believe it, and no, it's not true. Thinking more about this, it strikes me that that the question itself is deceptive. It's no wonder people seem to be talking past eac ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, politics, tech (all these topics)

Matt Drudge's misleading mashup bolsters right-wing fantasy World Drudge hijacks headlines to sell global warming denial	Brad Johnson	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill
From the Think Progress Wonk Room. Atop the Drudge Report right now: Do the stories behind these headlines tell the tale that global warming alarmists have 'hijacked' the political debate despite a 'lack of natural disasters' and no global warming 'since 1998'? No. Let's review: DRUDGE HEADLINE #1: REPORT: GLOBAL TEMPS 'HAVE NOT RISEN SINCE 1998' This claim has been thoroughly debunked every time it's popped up. The oil-backed global ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism, climate science, economy, severe weather (all these topics)

As IMF! IMF report says economic costs of climate-change action negligible		04 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 8:35 AM on 04 Apr 2008 The International Monetary Fund said in a report released today that sharply reducing the world's carbon emissions will cost relatively little economically if a carbon-pricing scheme is adopted soon that includes all the major-emitting countries. The report didn't endorse one specific pricing mechanism, but said that either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system could work if it gradually ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change mitigation, news (all these topics)

When does additionality matter? Part 3 Almost always, but the reason is more subtle than you think	Adam Stein	03 Apr 2008	Gristmill
In two previous posts, I've attempted to establish that additionality is neither some strange concept relevant only to carbon offsets nor an awkward patch used to fix a defect in the design of carbon markets. Rather, the concept of additionality is applicable to any incentive system, whether subsidy, tax, or whatever. The real question is what degree of additionality is actually necessary or desirable in any given system. Put another way, when should we care enough about ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Hoffert and Pielke: <del Shame on Nature for quoting Hoffert on behalf of Pielke without noting they're colleagues!	Joseph Romm	02 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Suppose the prestigious journal Nature published an analysis of mine that they knew many people would disagree with. How would you feel if Nature then ran accompanying commentaries for and against my analysis, including another Senior Fellow from the Center for American Progress raving about how important and brilliant it was? You'd probably think that was kind of lame of them. Now suppose the Nature article never mentioned that I was a CAP Senior Fellow or that my m ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, climate change skepticism, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, IPCC (all these topics)

Let me boil it down for you ... When additionality always matters	Gar Lipow	01 Apr 2008	Gristmill
Sean Casten and Adam Stein have been discussing when it is important that a carbon savings be additional -- that is, when it is important that we not pay for a saving that would have happened anyway. You guys are making this way more complicated than it needs to be. Iron-clad additionality is critical when you're selling a permission for someone else to pollute. If you are reducing emissions, generating a financial instrument from that fact, and then selling it to some ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

When does additionality matter? Part 2 Measuring additionality has clear benefits -- and also some obvious costs	Adam Stein	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The second in a series of posts on additionality. In his post criticizing the design of carbon markets, Sean correctly notes that additionality is a pain to measure -- an ever more expensive pain, as the industry matures and quality controls become more stringent. To take an example I know well, at TerraPass, we spend tens of thousands of dollars per project helping dairy farmers validate their methane digesters under the Voluntary Carbon Standard. It's a complex proc ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Carbon policy details: Part 4 Spots vs. strips	Sean Casten	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the fourth post in five-part series on the details required to get carbon policy right. See also parts one, two, and three. We now get into an issue that will seem a bit arcane, because no one's talking about it, at least not explicitly. But it's a real choice, and in many conversations about carbon policy we are implicitly getting it wrong. Should we price carbon in spots, or strips? Or, to take it out of financial jargon, should we: set up markets ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Urgency and solvability: The "we" campaign Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection unveils ambitious $300 million ad campaign	David Roberts	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If you read Juliet Eilperin's great rundown in the Washington Post, you know that today marks the launch of a massive PR effort from Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection. Gore has concluded that U.S. politicians will continue to be timid on climate change until the public demands otherwise. "The simple algorithm is this: It's important to change the light bulbs, but it's much more important to change the laws," he said. "The options available to ...
Topics: Al Gore, business, celebrity, climate, environmental movement, messaging, politics, TV (all these topics)

When does additionality matter? Part 1 The deceptively simple concept at the heart of carbon markets	Adam Stein	30 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Sean recently wrote a provocative post on why 'additionality' -- one of the bedrock principles of carbon markets as presently designed -- is an expensive waste of time. This is a rich topic, and my perspective as a carbon offset retailer differs from his as an energy producer. It's worth spending a few posts exploring why.When we ask whether a greenhouse-gas reduction is 'additional,' we're asking if it would have happened in the absence of whatever incentive we've ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, energy (all these topics)

Carbon policy details: Part 3 Carbon taxes vs. carbon trading	Sean Casten	28 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is the third post in a series about details we are still getting wrong in the climate policy discussion. See also part one and part two. There is no shortage of economic analysis and policy discourse that shows that carbon tax and cap-and-trade methodologies can deliver economically equivalent outcomes. The general consensus -- at least today -- seems to be that since they're equivalent, it really comes down to politics, and it's politically difficult to do anyt ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Windfalls Why consumer protection means selling carbon permits	Eric de Place	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
One of the thorniest problems in cap-and-trade programs is deciding how to distribute the carbon permits. Should the public sell pollution privileges or give them away for free? Some folks worry that if we make polluters pay for carbon permits, they'll just raise prices for consumers. That's a perfectly legitimate concern. Unfortunately it turns out to be true, whether we sell the permits or give them away for free. Prices rise by the same amount in either scenario ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, economy (all these topics)

Commute conundrum Should emissions from employee commutes be included in company GHG inventories?	Guest author	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Kevin Luten of UrbanTrans, a sustainable transportation consulting firm working in Australia and the United States. He is based in Melbourne. ----- When businesses dip a toe in the rising sea of corporate action on climate change, the first box they check before diving in involves tabulating their own greenhouse-gas inventory. In getting your corporate house in order, the first step is defining where your yard ends and your neighbor' ...
Topics: business, cars, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions, greening biz operations, public transportation (all these topics)

Prasad responds Carbon taxes work when there's substitutability and revenue is locked down for environmental goals	Guest author	27 Mar 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post by Northwestern University assistant professor of sociology Monica Prasad, who wrote an op-ed in Tuesday's New York Times called "On Carbon: Tax, Don't Spend." It elicited responses from David Roberts and Charles Komanoff. ----- Thanks to David and Charlie for picking up on and responding to my carbon tax op-ed. I've learned a lot from Grist, so I was happy to see this. Some responses to their criticisms. David's beef is with the ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, climate, Denmark, economy, Norway (all these topics)

Mind Your Business NYT offers special section on green biz		26 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:36 AM on 26 Mar 2008 The Sierra Club is embarking on its first product endorsement, putting its logo on Clorox's new Green Works cleaning products. Various businesses are aiming to bypass carbon neutrality and move straight on into carbon negativity. These and more stories show up in a New York Times "Business of Green" section Wednesday, which covers the green-biz gamut, from companies trying to manufacture safer ...
Topics: business, carbon neutral, climate, energy, green jobs, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, Sierra Club, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

On carbon: Tax, and spend wisely What investments should be made with carbon tax revenue?	David Roberts	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Monica Prasad had an op-ed in The New York Times yesterday called "On Carbon: Tax, Don't Spend." It's ... peculiar. This basic pitch: "if reducing emissions is the goal, then a carbon tax is a tax you want to impose but never collect." That is to say, per the headline, you Don't Spend the tax revenue. Far as I can tell, though, what Prasad calls not spending looks al lot like what the rest of us call spending. She says the revenue from the tax ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, climate, Denmark, economy (all these topics)

The biggest source of mistakes: carbon vs. carbon dioxide A factor of 3.67 makes a big difference when discussing climate	Joseph Romm	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The biggest source of confusion and errors in climate discussions probably concerns 'carbon' versus 'carbon dioxide.' I was reminded of this last week when I saw an analysis done for a major environmental group that confused the two and hence was wrong by a large factor (3.67). The paragraph I usually include in my writing: Some people use carbon rather than carbon dioxide as a metric. The fraction of carbon in carbon dioxide is the ratio of their weights. The atomic ...
Topics: business, climate, climate science, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

ECO:nomics: A chat with Jim Rogers Duke Energy CEO defends the need for free permit allocations	David Roberts	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill
One of the most interesting political dynamics emerging around climate policy is the clash between coal utilities and utilities that rely more on natural gas and nuclear. (Most of the former are regulated, while most of the latter are, to one extent or another, deregulated or restructured.) Gas and nuke utilities stand to benefit from a cap-and-trade program that prices carbon steeply and quickly, since their fleets are already (relatively) low-carbon. Coal utilities ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, energy, greenish companies, interview (all these topics)

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