EU Considering Border Tariffs On Steel, Cement, & Electricity
A draft proposal by the European Commission would impose carbon-based tariffs on imports from outside the EU.
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Why Put A Price On Carbon? To Protect The Energy Workers Who Made America Great
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and union president James Sleviin propose a price on carbon emissions as the fairest way to protect the workers who provided America with the energy it needed to become a great nation.
Unprecedented Alliance Of International Leaders Call For Price On Carbon
An unprecedented alliance of heads of state, city, and state leaders, has called for countries and companies around the world to put a price on carbon. The call comes by way of the Carbon Pricing Panel, a group of leaders from around the world convened by World Bank Group President Jim … [continued]
Use Drop In Oil Prices To Put A Price On Carbon, Says IEA Director
Originally published on EnergyPost. By Maria van der Hoeven With the drop in oil prices “delivering a shot of economic stimulus to consumers around the world”, policymakers have a “once-in-a-generation” chance to take actions to cut our reliance on fossil fuels, writes Maria van der Hoeven, Executive Director of the International … [continued]
Climate News
As a reminder of why we do what we do, here’s some top global warming and climate change news from around: Climate Science Each Degree of Global Warming Might Ultimately Raise Global Sea Levels by More Than 2 Meters They Didn’t Change the Name from ‘Global Warming’ to ‘Climate Change’ … [continued]
Nuclear Impractical — Global Price on Carbon & Solar Grid Parity to Change the World…
Jonathon Porritt, Co-founder of Friends of the Earth and Founding Director of Forum for the Future, reiterates what Dr Jeremy Leggett, Founder and Chairman of SolarCentury, and I said in our CNBC & Harvard Business Review “Energy Opportunities” interviews — in particular, that we have the renewable energy technologies … [continued]
Huge News: Putting a High & Rising Price on CO2 Could Balance the Budget (New…
Yes, it’s more complicated than that — this was a hard story to come up with a title for — but this is the gist of a new proposed plan (or several new plans) for balancing the nation’s budget that would ALSO, by chance, cut CO2 emissions considerably, thus slowing or stopping human-caused global warming and saving us trillions of dollars in damage and health costs in the process.
