Mining and the environment
Stewart Smith Research Service, Parliament of New South Wales22 July, 2009 This paper briefly places the contribution of mining into the context of the wider economy, and focuses on the impact of coal mining on both natural and agricultural areas of NSW.
Baseline and credit versus cap and trade emissions trading schemes
McLennan Magasanik Associates The Climate Institute20 July, 2009 This briefing paper critiques the proposal to establish a baseline and credit type scheme instead of an emissions trading scheme based on a cap and trade mechanism.
Breaking through on technology - perspectives from Australia
The Climate Institute20 July, 2009 This paper presents an Australian perspective on the opportunities and barriers to clean technology development, deployment and transfer, both within and between countries.
Urban congestion: why 'free' roads are costly
Paul Hubbard Treasury17 July, 2009 Many see traffic jams as a fact of city life, but its root cause is overuse of a common resource – the urban road network. Putting a price on access to roads at busy times could encourage individuals to change their travel plans, according to this report.
Showing posts with label Cap and trade scheme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cap and trade scheme. Show all posts
Friday, July 24, 2009
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Bottom Line on Regional Cap-and-Trade Programs
What is happening on the regional level and why is this significant?
Twenty-three U.S. states and four Canadian provinces are actively participating in the design and implementation of three regional cap-and-trade programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Participating U.S. states account for one-half of the U.S. population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and one-third of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The Canadian provinces account for more than three-quarters of the Canadian population and GDP, and nearly one-half of Canadian GHG emissions. These efforts are formally observed by another 14 states and provinces across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Regional cap-and-trade programs account for the most significant domestic greenhouse gas regulatory efforts to date. In developing these programs, the regions have demonstrated innovation in policy design and program implementation that will inform national climate policy development in the United States and Canada. For basic information on cap-and-trade programs, please see The Bottom Line on Cap-and-Trade.
What is happening on the regional level and why is this significant?
Twenty-three U.S. states and four Canadian provinces are actively participating in the design and implementation of three regional cap-and-trade programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Participating U.S. states account for one-half of the U.S. population and Gross Domestic Product (GDP), and one-third of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. The Canadian provinces account for more than three-quarters of the Canadian population and GDP, and nearly one-half of Canadian GHG emissions. These efforts are formally observed by another 14 states and provinces across the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
Regional cap-and-trade programs account for the most significant domestic greenhouse gas regulatory efforts to date. In developing these programs, the regions have demonstrated innovation in policy design and program implementation that will inform national climate policy development in the United States and Canada. For basic information on cap-and-trade programs, please see The Bottom Line on Cap-and-Trade.
Friday, June 5, 2009
The flawed logic of the cap-and-trade debate
Current efforts to tax or cap carbon emissions are doomed to failure: the answer lies in making clean energy cheap.Feature - Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus - posted 5/6/2009
Current efforts to tax or cap carbon emissions are doomed to failure: the answer lies in making clean energy cheap.Feature - Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus - posted 5/6/2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
Can we reverse global climate change? Part I
Cap-and-trade is a Temple of Doom for life on Earth, worshipped by lawmakers afraid to confront fossil special interests.Feature - James Hansen - posted 1/6/2009
Cap-and-trade is a Temple of Doom for life on Earth, worshipped by lawmakers afraid to confront fossil special interests.Feature - James Hansen - posted 1/6/2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
APO Research
Urban passenger transport: how people move about in Australian cities
David Cosgrove, David Gargett Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics14 May, 2009 This information sheet analyses the trends in passenger transport in Australia's eight capital cities over the period 1977 to 2008. Although car travel continues to dominate travel in our cities, urban public transport has accounted for much of the growth in travel from 2004 to 2008.
From a theory to a consensus on emissions
John M. Broder The New York Times18 May, 2009 Cap and trade, hatched as an academic theory in obscure economic journals, has become the policy of choice in the debate over how to slow the heating of the planet.
David Cosgrove, David Gargett Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics14 May, 2009 This information sheet analyses the trends in passenger transport in Australia's eight capital cities over the period 1977 to 2008. Although car travel continues to dominate travel in our cities, urban public transport has accounted for much of the growth in travel from 2004 to 2008.
From a theory to a consensus on emissions
John M. Broder The New York Times18 May, 2009 Cap and trade, hatched as an academic theory in obscure economic journals, has become the policy of choice in the debate over how to slow the heating of the planet.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The carbon trap
The carbon trap: can offsets, emissions caps, and complex trading schemes turn off the global spigot of greenhouse gases?.
Replicating that success is not as straightforward as it sounds. First, carbon emissions are not currently well quantified. The Clean Air Act amendments required power plants to install instruments that record their acid rain-causing emissions and to report the numbers to the Environmental Protection Agency. Yet in Europe's carbon trading system--a likely model for the United States--businesses are not required to use monitoring instrumentation. They are allowed to determine their carbon emissions by "calculation." Although third-party auditors check the process, Michael Wara, a Stanford Law School professor and a researcher at the Stanford Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, acknowledges that there is reason for concern when emitters are doing their own carbon accounting.
Replicating that success is not as straightforward as it sounds. First, carbon emissions are not currently well quantified. The Clean Air Act amendments required power plants to install instruments that record their acid rain-causing emissions and to report the numbers to the Environmental Protection Agency. Yet in Europe's carbon trading system--a likely model for the United States--businesses are not required to use monitoring instrumentation. They are allowed to determine their carbon emissions by "calculation." Although third-party auditors check the process, Michael Wara, a Stanford Law School professor and a researcher at the Stanford Program on Energy and Sustainable Development, acknowledges that there is reason for concern when emitters are doing their own carbon accounting.
Monday, August 25, 2008
US regional cap-and-trade comes on line
By Danny Bradbury on News
Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen, Friday 22 August 2008 at 15:44:00
Chicago Climate Exchange begins trading futures in first US cap-and-trade scheme
The still embryonic US carbon market took another step towards maturity this week when the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) began trading futures in carbon credits issued by a new regional...
Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen, Friday 22 August 2008 at 15:44:00
Chicago Climate Exchange begins trading futures in first US cap-and-trade scheme
The still embryonic US carbon market took another step towards maturity this week when the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) began trading futures in carbon credits issued by a new regional...
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