Are We Free to Pollute the Atmosphere? Climate Change, Wealth and Liberty -...
by: Michael HoexterIn Part 1 of this post I summarized US and worldwide efforts to create legal standards to limit GHG emissions and described the political opposition to these efforts as based on a...
View ArticleCap and Trade: A Tangled Web of Good Intentions and Bad Policy – Part 2
In the first part of this post I identified 10 features of cap and trade, the favored climate policy of many policy elites at this point in time, that make the policy ineffectual. I outlined how cap...
View ArticleCap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework for Humanity’s Most Serious...
In a few days in Copenhagen, world leaders will debate and, we hope, agree upon aggressive targets for humanity’s greatest challenge to date: to avert devastating man-made climate change by...
View ArticleCap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework..Towards a Serious Climate...
In part I, I made the general case for cap and trade as an unserious policy framework that inserts extraneous elements into pricing carbon that threaten the whole enterprise. I generated general...
View ArticleIs There Hope for Business after Copenhagen?
I've been trying over the past few days to find some Hopenhagen in Copenhagen — that is, to see some positive outcome to the COP15 climate summit just concluded. The two-week event ended with a...
View ArticleThe Green Business Decade in Review
Okay, I'll admit: The headline above is a bit of a come-on. I couldn't possibly do justice to the past 10 years' worth of green business activity — at least not in the following 1,500 or so words. But...
View ArticleCap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation –...
In this 3-part post, I will outline how cap and trade’s composite structure contains within it fault lines that help defeat its and the climate action community’s goals. In this first part, I will...
View ArticleCap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation –...
In the first part of this post, I outlined how the components of cap and trade don’t work together to cut emissions. 2. Cap and Trade’s Perverse Ethics Threaten Climate Policy EffectivenessThe role of...
View ArticleCap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation –...
In the first part of this piece, I discussed how the fractured structure of cap and trade is either non-functional or marginally functional. In the second part, I pointed out how cap and trade, due to...
View ArticleAll Consuming Baby Boomers Are the Country's Biggest Polluters
So claims an article in today’s Sunday Times (you are only going to be able to read this if you have a subscription). The chart below and the claim are taken from a 120 page report “Demographic change...
View ArticleAre We Free to Pollute the Atmosphere? Climate Change, Wealth and Liberty -...
by: Michael HoexterIn Part 1 of this post I summarized US and worldwide efforts to create legal standards to limit GHG emissions and described the political opposition to these efforts as based on a...
View ArticleCap and Trade: A Tangled Web of Good Intentions and Bad Policy – Part 2
In the first part of this post I identified 10 features of cap and trade, the favored climate policy of many policy elites at this point in time, that make the policy ineffectual. I outlined how cap...
View ArticleCap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework for Humanity’s Most Serious...
In a few days in Copenhagen, world leaders will debate and, we hope, agree upon aggressive targets for humanity’s greatest challenge to date: to avert devastating man-made climate change by...
View ArticleCap and Trade: An Unserious Policy Framework..Towards a Serious Climate...
In part I, I made the general case for cap and trade as an unserious policy framework that inserts extraneous elements into pricing carbon that threaten the whole enterprise. I generated general...
View ArticleIs There Hope for Business after Copenhagen?
I've been trying over the past few days to find some Hopenhagen in Copenhagen — that is, to see some positive outcome to the COP15 climate summit just concluded. The two-week event ended with a...
View ArticleThe Green Business Decade in Review
Okay, I'll admit: The headline above is a bit of a come-on. I couldn't possibly do justice to the past 10 years' worth of green business activity — at least not in the following 1,500 or so words. But...
View ArticleCap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation –...
In this 3-part post, I will outline how cap and trade’s composite structure contains within it fault lines that help defeat its and the climate action community’s goals. In this first part, I will...
View ArticleCap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation –...
In the first part of this post, I outlined how the components of cap and trade don’t work together to cut emissions. 2. Cap and Trade’s Perverse Ethics Threaten Climate Policy EffectivenessThe role of...
View ArticleCap and Trade Derails Climate Ethics, the Motive Force of Carbon Mitigation –...
In the first part of this piece, I discussed how the fractured structure of cap and trade is either non-functional or marginally functional. In the second part, I pointed out how cap and trade, due to...
View ArticleAll Consuming Baby Boomers Are the Country's Biggest Polluters
So claims an article in today’s Sunday Times (you are only going to be able to read this if you have a subscription). The chart below and the claim are taken from a 120 page report “Demographic change...
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