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Mmm ... kiwi ... New Zealand sounds nice	David Roberts	26 Sep 2007	Gristmill
New Zealand: New Zealand has long had a reputation for being "clean and green" and has a proud record of conservation, with around 30% of its total land area being protected from development. Last week it announced bold plans [PDF] to tackle climate change, following up on a goal set by prime minister Helen Clark at the start of the year for New Zealand to become the world's first carbon neutral country. Among the stated targets, to be legisla ...
Topics: carbon neutral, carbon trading, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, New Zealand, renewable energy (all these topics)

Capping carbon: Is nothing better than something? On whether to advocate weaker climate change bills	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
This post is by ClimateProgress guest blogger Bill Becker, Executive Director of the Presidential Climate Action Project. How fearsome must the headlines be about tomorrow before people change their ways today? -- Nancy Gibbs, TIME In Greenland today, the ice is thawing at a pace that is alarming climate scientists. Meanwhile in Washington, D.C., Congress remains frozen on the issue of carbon pricing. And that may be a good thing. Carbon pricing, as most r ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, grassroots activism, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Alan Greenspan is very overrated: Part II Greenspan on climate change	Joseph Romm	22 Sep 2007	Gristmill
If you thought Greenspan was confused about energy, his discussion of global warming in The Age of Turbulence is downright stupefying. He opens well (p. 454): There can be very little doubt that global warming is real and man-made. But the next sentence is (I kid you not): We may have to rename Glacier National Park when its glaciers disappear, in what now looks to be 2030, according to park scientists. That's what all the fuss is about -- we'll have to r ...
Topics: books, carbon trading, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation (all these topics)

Green world unites behind auctioning carbon allowances New U.S. Pirg report recommends 100 percent of allowances be auctioned	David Roberts	21 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Speaking of auctioning the permits under a cap-and-trade system, yesterday U.S. PIRG released a new report: 'Cleaner, Cheaper, Smarter: The Case For Auctioning Pollution Allowances In A Global Warming Cap-and-Trade Program.' It argues for auctioning 100% of permits: Auctioning all allowances under a cap-and-trade program is fair, reduces the societal cost of achieving emission reductions compared to giving allowances to polluters for free, and promotes a transitio ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Greens actually change someone's mind Greens helped convince Lieberman that auctioning permits is the way to go	David Roberts	20 Sep 2007	Gristmill
As I noted earlier today, Sen. Lieberman indicated that he'd be open to moving toward 100 percent auction of pollution permits under his and Sen. Warner's cap-and-trade proposal. I called David McIntosh, Lieberman's counsel and legislative assistant for energy and the environment, to find out why this potentially tectonic shift has suddenly become a live option. He said: The environmental community and Senators whose views are going to be important have effectivel ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Non-sucky cap-and-trade now a possibility? Lieberman expresses openness to auction all carbon permits	David Roberts	20 Sep 2007	Gristmill
A cap-and-trade system begins by placing a cap on carbon emissions and distributing permits (permission to emit a certain amount of CO2) equal to the capped amount. The notion is that permits will be bought and sold, allowing market forces to determine where emission reductions can be made fastest and easiest. The question is how to distribute those initial permits. When the EU carbon trading system was established, permits were given away based on emissions, meani ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Discover Brilliant: The business of climate change	David Roberts	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
The final session of the day (hooray) is about "the business of climate change." On the panel: Climate Change Journal, Grant Ferrier, Editor (Moderator) Climate Solutions, K.C. Golden, Policy Director Sterling Planet, Alden Hathaway II, Senior VP, Business Development Environmental Resources Trust, Gordon Smith, EcoLands Director We start with Smith, who begins by, of all things, talking about forestry credits in carbon markets! He says they aren' ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Tackling climate: Beltway tone-deafness edition On subsidizing 'green' energy R&D	Brian Beutler	17 Sep 2007	Gristmill
In its 'green' issue this week, The New Republic features an excerpt from Ted Nordhaus and Michael Schellenberger's new book, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility. Their basic point is that the emphasis of the political debate is all wrong. I'm not sure they really understand how things are shaping up, but they're saying that politicians should spend less 'time' talking about regulatory approaches, and more time reiterati ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, coal, energy, innovation, politics (all these topics)

Sky Trust explained Peter Barnes looks at carbon-capping methods	Gar Lipow	13 Sep 2007	Gristmill
Peter Barnes has a guest post on the Step It Up blog giving a good brief description of how a Sky Trust would work: Carbon capping comes in three varieties: cap-and-trade, cap-and-auction, and cap-and-recycle. In cap-and-trade, permits are given free to historic polluters. This is called 'grandfathering.' The more a company polluted in the past, the more permits it gets in the future -- not just once, but year after year. As the descending cap raises th ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, energy (all these topics)

Which way to screw the consumer WSJ on the carbon tax vs. cap-and-trade debate	David Roberts	13 Sep 2007	Gristmill
People keep emailing me this Wall Street Journal piece on the debate between carbon tax and cap-and-trade, but as far as I can tell there's nothing new in it. This is well-trod ground on sites like Grist. The one interesting thing about it is this graphic: For reasons Sean has well-described, I don't believe these kinds of figures. They are undergirded by tons of arguable assumptions. More to the point: as long as every story about fighting climate change is about ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Risk mismanagement Bjorn Lomborg's new book misunderstands risk and investment	David Roberts	23 Aug 2007	Gristmill
This is a guest essay from Jon A. Anda, President of the Environmental Markets Network, an organization within Environmental Defense focused on legislation to create an efficient carbon market. He was previously a Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley. ----- Bjorn Lomborg's forthcoming book says to Cool It about global warming. I am anxious to read the detailed rationale when the book is released in September. Based on his interviews about the book, as well as insigh ...
Topics: books, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

What should Congress do on climate? Go big or play it safe	David Roberts	14 Aug 2007	Gristmill
I've had the Lieberman-Warner climate bill proposal (PDF) printed out for a couple weeks now, but still haven't gotten around to reading it. Bad blogger! The general assessment from other quarters seems to be: eh. Medium. The big flaw is that it gives around 25% 75% of its permits away. Bad, bad, bad, but maybe necessary to get coal-state legislators on board. On the positive side, it's got a cost-containment mechanism that, unlike Bingaman's escape hatch, would hold ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Why cap-and-trade or carbon taxes alone won't solve global warming, and why we still need them Correcting two misunderstandings	Gar Lipow	13 Aug 2007	Gristmill
As we discuss 'cap-and-steal' (aka 'cap-and-trade'), 'cap-and-sell' (aka 'cap-and-auction'), and carbon taxes -- three ways of putting prices on carbon -- it is worth remembering that putting a price on greenhouse-gas emissions is not enough to bring them under control. Gristmill is full of posts showing ways to save carbon at a profit. David posted an interview on Recycled Energy today that points to something that has been known, but mostly ignored, for over thirty year ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

What makes a good cap-and-trade system? A short guide	David Roberts	08 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Lots of economists and analysts on both sides of the aisle prefer a carbon tax to a cap-and-trade system, but political reality is such that the former is exceedingly unlikely and the latter has become all but inevitable. So it's time to focus on doing it well. One question that came up in the panel Q&A was this: what makes for a good cap-and-trade system? This subject is both enormously complex and enormously relevant to current politics. We need the grassr ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Repetto argues for upstream cap-and-trade More on carbon trading	Joseph Romm	07 Aug 2007	Gristmill
August is a time to catch up on reading. A good place to start is 'National Climate Policy: Choosing the Right Architecture' [PDF], by Yale's Robert Repetto, one of the country's leading experts on environmental and resource economics. He argues for an upstream cap-and-trade system, and against a safety valve. Other views can be found here, here, and here. This is Repetto's conclusion:It is extremely important that the U.S. adopt a good policy architecture for gr ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Pricing carbon Give away rights or sell them?	Gar Lipow	03 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Joseph Romm in his post on Dingell's carbon tax proposal says: Politically, you can't raise carbon prices high enough to raise gasoline prices since even $1 a gallon -- probably the minimum to significantly change fuel economy if Europe is any evidence -- would require a carbon charge of $400 per tonne of carbon -- which would be very harsh to coal, adding more than 10 cents per kilowatt-hour to coal electricity, and politically impossible (I'll post more on this late ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, politics (all these topics)

Economic effect of cap-and-trade: A wager Will you take it?	David Roberts	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
So, Reuters took a look at the EPA's economic analysis of the Lieberman-McCain Climate Stewardship Act (so I didn't have to!). In case your memory is hazy, the CSA is a cap-and-trade bill that would cut emissions 65% by 2050. Here's the nut: The EPA found that the Climate Stewardship and Innovation Act of 2007 would shave up to 1.6 percent, or $419 billion, off a baseline forecast for U.S. gross domestic product in 2030 and up to 3.2 percent, or $1.332 trillion, by ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Cost containment for the carbon market: A step toward cap-and-trade Moderate senators are ready to get on board	David Roberts	25 Jul 2007	Gristmill
As Joe mentioned yesterday, four moderate-to-conservative senators -- John Warner (R-Va.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) -- just proposed a measure to achieve "Cost-Containment for the Carbon Market." I wanted to spend a bit of time on what's in it and what it means. You might think, given the business-friendly senators involved, that the measure's going to be a gimmick to let industries off the hook. Happ ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Dick, Dick, Dick Just stay out of it, won't you?	David Roberts	23 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In an article about the Bush administration's halting, grudging baby steps toward maybe, somewhat, possibly considering the eensiest-beensiest mandatory restrictions on carbon emissions, perhaps, some day, if it doesn't cost any industry any money, we get this beautiful capper of a final paragraph: A number of big businesses, including some oil, chemical and utility companies, view a cap-and-trade system such as Europe's as inevitable. Opposition to caps -- led by V ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, greenhouse-gas emissions (all these topics)

Carbon credit allocation All the kids are talking about it	David Roberts	17 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Today in Greenwire, Darren Samuelsohn rightly notes that the big -- and by big we're talking multi-billions of dollars -- question around a cap-and-trade system is how the credits are initially allocated. Do you give more to utilities with lots of coal plants, because they need help transitioning to a low-carbon future? Do you give more to utilities with gas and hydro, to reward their low-carbon ways? Do you auction them all? Some mix? You can be sure lots of utility ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, energy, legislation, politics (all these topics)

Offset markets A new Pardoner's Tale?	Gar Lipow	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
David objects to calling offsets indulgences. In contrast, the actual offset purchasers I've met -- via the internet or in the 'real world' -- tend to be environmentally concerned and engaged. They view offsets as something they can do in addition to other things they do to lighten their footprint. This is disingenuous on two levels. First the indulgence metaphor is primarily aimed at CDM and JT under the Kyoto treaty, where offsets are legally permissions ...
Topics: carbon offsets, carbon trading, climate, energy (all these topics)

Turned Offset Leading banks suggest regulation of carbon-offset market		29 Jun 2007	Daily Grist
Turned Offset Leading banks suggest regulation of carbon-offset market Not long ago, the phrase "carbon offset" was a kind of magic. Investing in far-off green projects, the thinking went, made up for emissions at the source. Poof! But complications arose, and now a group of more than 10 major banks wants to move toward regulating the market -- at least the voluntary offsets that aren't government-regulat ...
Topics: business, carbon trading, climate, news (all these topics)

Is this the right time to attack Dingell? He's pro-carbon tax, anti-CAFE -- which matters more?	David Roberts	27 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Last week, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), chair of the Energy & Commerce Committee, dropped this bomb (sub. rqd.): My own judgment is that we are going to have to adopt a cap-and-trade system and some form of carbon emission fee to achieve the reductions we need. Lest you missed it, 'carbon emission fee' is clever poli-speak for carbon tax. Meanwhile, the liberal grassroots group MoveOn has launched a full frontal assault on Dingell, with radio ads calling him ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, energy, John Dingell, politics (all these topics)

The auction vs. free allocation debate reaches Capitol Hill I'm sure whoever has the best argument will win, right?	David Roberts	25 Jun 2007	Gristmill
There's an interesting piece today in CongressNow on the debate over auctioning vs. giving away credits in a cap-and-trade system. (CN requires a subscription, which you can get for the low, low price of $1500 or so. I'm on the 10-day evaluation thing, so enjoy these pieces while they come, 'cause there's no way Grist is coughing up that kind of dough.) The basic lay of the land is this: enviros, and other people concerned about making the system actually work to re ...
Topics: carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy (all these topics)

Has 'carbon tax' entered the world of the possible? Dingell floats it; Boucher knocks it down	David Roberts	21 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Hmm? What's all this now? John Dingell is floating the possibility of a carbon tax? From CongressNow (sub. rqd.): Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), who will play a key role in crafting the House version of comprehensive climate change legislation, on Wednesday night downplayed speculation that the House bill could include some form of a tax on carbon dioxide emissions. Boucher, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce energy and air quality subcommittee, last night said ...
Topics: carbon tax, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, John Dingell, legislation, US House of Representatives (all these topics)

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