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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)

'Ahead of the Curve: Business Responds to Climate Change'	David Roberts	24 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Here is an absolutely stellar video from Sea Studios productions called "Ahead of the Curve: Business Responds to Climate Change": (via Steve Clemons)
Topics: energy, business, politics, climate (all these topics)

Only You Can Prevent Climate Change Gore group will launch climate marketing campaign		24 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 10:42 AM on 24 Mar 2008 Photo: World Resources Institute Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection plans to spend more than $300 million over the next three years on a marketing campaign aimed at getting Americans to address climate change. With ads developed by the Martin Agency (the folks behind the Geico cavemen and chatty gecko) and partnerships with grassroots groups, the campaign focus will be o ...
Topics: advertising, Al Gore, business, climate, climate change mitigation, grassroots activism, green products, news, United States (all these topics)

Thought of the day: Don't call 100 percent auctioning cap-and-trade If 100 percent auctioning is done right, the trade component will be trivial	Gar Lipow	22 Mar 2008	Gristmill
If all permits are auctioned, where is the need for large-scale trading? With modern electronics, there is no reason most permits can't be bought directly by those using them. Yes, there will be some trading: people will buy too many and need to resell, or engage in hedging, or use a broker for convenience's sake. But if the auctioning process is not made a major pain, these should be trivial in scale compared to direct purchase. Our short name should not emphasize the ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate (all these topics)

'Paign, Management Industry launches campaign against Lieberman-Warner climate bill		20 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 8:05 AM on 20 Mar 2008 Energy industry and business trade groups have launched a concerted campaign against the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. The bill, which would establish a cap-and-trade system to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions, is much less stringent than some other climate bills in Congress, but Lieberman-Warner is so far the only one to pass out of committee; it's scheduled for a Senate vo ...
Topics: business, climate, dumbassery , legislation, news (all these topics)

Pros and Econs EPA's economic analysis of climate bill relatively favorable		17 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 6:39 AM on 17 Mar 2008 The U.S. EPA has released its economic analysis of the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act of 2008, concluding that implementing the bill, which includes a carbon cap-and-trade system, would not significantly harm the U.S. economy over the next 20 years. The agency estimated the bill would likely cut U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions 11 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and about 56 percen ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, economy, news, US EPA (all these topics)

Climate justice: yes. Carbon trading: no. Carbon offsetting is not the best way for the global north to subsidize the global south	Gar Lipow	11 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Okay, my last post summarized Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baers' arguments in favor of drastic cuts in emissions. They place responsibility on the rich and to some extent the middle class rather than the poor. As you might expect, I agree with both these points. I disagree with their arguments that carbon trading and even offsets are the best way for the global north to subsidize the global south. Tom and Paul's argument: the rich countries are responsible for cuts exceedin ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, carbon trading, climate (all these topics)

Separating rate theory from rate fact How will the auction vs. allocation debate affect power prices?	Sean Casten	11 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Last January, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) convened hearings on the ways allocation of CO2 permits under a cap-and-trade system will impact power prices and utility profit margins. The short version, drawn from the evidence of Kyoto and other systems that have given credits away for free, is that while free allocations lower power prices in theory, in reality prices rise just as much as they would otherwise -- but they increase margins for exempt generators (i.e., coal plant ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, energy (all these topics)

What price the future?	Ryan Avent	11 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Jim Manzi, with whom I have debated warming policy responses before, has a problem with The Washington Post's coverage of new studies on climate change. He writes: The premise of the story by Juliet Eilperin is well-expressed by its headline: 'Carbon Output Must Near Zero To Avert Danger, New Studies Say'. Eilperin prominently quotes Carnegie Institution senior scientist Ken Caldeira, co-author of one of the studies promoted by the article, who says: 'The question is, ...
Topics: business, carbon tax, climate, climate science (all these topics)

Bringing a knife to a gunfight What drives climate change denial?	Adam Stein	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
David and I have apparently crossed blog streams (very dangerous; never do this), but I do want to expand a bit on this basic idea: climate change skepticism has little to do with science. Rather, it is an outgrowth of the culture war. This point seems both totally obvious and strangely unremarked. At the risk of generalizing, environmentalists tend to view climate change denialism as a top-down, money-driven phenomenon. Energy producers, auto manufacturers, oil compan ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

What's wrong with the WCI? The Western Climate Initiative's first proposal ducks biggest climate problem	Eric de Place	07 Mar 2008	Gristmill
The Western Climate Initiative is a path-breaking effort. Insufficient federal progress prompted seven states and two provinces to join together to reduce climate pollution by means of an economy-wide cap-and-trade program. It's a momentous opportunity, and many folks have been working hard to ensure that it's a success. Unfortunately, there's now cause for serious concern. Yesterday evening, WCI released its draft proposal (PDF). It proposes an initial cap that ...
Topics: Big Oil, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, Oregon, Washington (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: Young, gifted, and green? New survey of U.K. youth reveals mixed attitudes about the future of the planet	Ben Tuxworth	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill
Ben Tuxworth, communications director at Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. Debates about how we should save the planet tend to explore the impossibility of almost every approach until someone says, 'We need to change the education system,' at which point it is deemed churlish to snigger. Catch 'em young, and it's job done seems to be the hope. Well, with only 100 months of planet-saving time left, ac ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change impacts, consumerism, green living, United Kingdom (all these topics)

Climos Def New company wants to seed ocean with iron to sequester carbon		05 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 12:24 PM on 05 Mar 2008 Weeks after ocean-seeding company Planktos bit the iron dust, a startup called Climos is plowing ahead with a similar business plan: seed the ocean with iron dust to stimulate the growth of CO2-gobbling plankton, then sell offsets for the sequestered carbon. Climos has announced $3.5 million in venture capital and is backed by reputable investors: Tesla Chair (n�e Pay-Pal cofounder) Elon Mu ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics)

Vicious life cycles Can we trust carbon labeling?	Clark Williams-Derry	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill
About a year ago, I was cautiously bullish on British supermarket giant Tesco's pledge to start putting carbon labels on its food. But I think that their progress so far -- which I'll get to in a minute -- suggests an important lesson about the policy risks of treating a fuzzy exercise as if it were completely reliable. Tesco's idea was that the chain and its suppliers would pay for objective, comprehensive reviews of the greenhouse-gas emissions from th ...
Topics: business, consumerism, shopping, energy, climate (all these topics)

Making a Splash Large water utilities form climate alliance		26 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 4:37 PM on 26 Feb 2008 Eight of the largest water agencies in the U.S. have formed the Water Utility Climate Alliance to strategize about dealing with climate change. Together, the eight members provide water to more than 36 million people, whose slaked thirst is endangered by "diminishing snowpack, bigger storms, more frequent drought, and rising sea levels," according to WUCA Chair Susan Leal. sources:� Associated ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change adaptation, climate change impacts, news, water crisis (all these topics)

Crock is as crock does GM's Lutz can think whatever he wants, but the record shows his actions hurt the climate fight	David Roberts	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Yesterday, a post on the Wall Street Journal's energy blog discussed the controversy over GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz calling global warming a 'crock of shit.' It said: Some, like Wired and Grist, buy his argument: As long as GM keeps making progress toward electric cars and expanding the role of alternative fuels like ethanol, the auto maker is clearly blazing a new trail. This is a bad misreading of my point, which I probably didn't make very ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism (all these topics)

A new marketplace for trading GHG permits A chat with Philip V. Adams of the World Green Exchange auction system	Mark Pawlosky	26 Feb 2008	Gristmill
Last week, World Energy Exchange, an online energy trading platform, officially launched a new marketplace for renewable-energy certificates and greenhouse-gas permits. The World Green Exchange employs an auction system -- think eBay -- to bring buyers and sellers together. In theory, auctions create a more transparent marketplace and drive out cost inefficiencies by directly connecting the buyer and seller and removing the middleman. Philip V. Adams. ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, energy (all these topics)

Lutz strikes back GM exec defends calling climate change a 'crock of shit'	David Roberts	22 Feb 2008	Gristmill
A couple weeks back, GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, at a roundtable with reporters, casually mentioned that he thinks global warming is a "crock of shit." (His point was that it makes sense to develop an all-electric vehicle either way.) Lots and lots of people, mainly bloggers, got in a huge uproar about it. Yesterday, Lutz wrote a defiant post on GM's blog addressing the controversy. His point is that it doesn't matter a bit what his personal beliefs are; wha ...
Topics: business, climate, climate change skepticism, electric vehicles, energy (all these topics)

Cap and Evade Companies not following through on pledge to lobby for carbon reduction		22 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 12:48 PM on 22 Feb 2008 Companies participating in the U.S. Climate Action Partnership have pledged to lobby for a mandatory cap on U.S. carbon emissions, but -- and there's always a but -- many of those same corporations are working behind the scenes to undermine greenhouse-gas regulation. Just a few examples: USCAP members General Electric and Caterpillar sit on the board of a group called the Cente ...
Topics: business, climate, Department of Commerce, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, politics (all these topics)

USCRAP	David Roberts	21 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The media was all abuzz when a bunch of big corporations got together to form USCAP, a coalition supporting the implementation of a mandatory cap on carbon emissions in the U.S. Why, big business has gone green! So the headlines said. However, as a great BusinessWeek story today explains, many of those same companies are working hard behind the scenes to thwart or neuter the very efforts USCAP claims to support. Trust but verify, as they say.
Topics: business, climate, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

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