Archive for the ‘Flexible emission fees’ Category
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Climate sceptic U-turns and calls for Carbon Emissions Tax
Well-known economist climate critic Bjørn Lomborg - the self styled “sceptical environmentalist”- is calling for massive investment into climate change measures.
To fund them he is suggesting a tax on carbon emissions in his latest book Smart Solutions to Climate Change: Comparing Costs and Benefits
Says Bjørn, quoted in the Guardian,
“The point I’ve always been making is [...] -
New publications from the Foundation
An economic paradigm for stable, sustainable, development by Anders Höglund
This discussion paper presents Höglund’s Interest rate rule: a new paradigm within the field of macroeconomics. It suggests practical methods to maintain an optimally strong, environmentally compliant and genuinely sustainable, employment-conducive demand in the economy.
Download the publication here An-economic-paradigm-for-stable-sustainable-development
Swedish version ett-ekonomiskt-paradigm-for-stabil-hallbar-utveckling -
Carbon outsourcing exposed
A recent study of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, in Stanford, California, looks at an alternative style of carbon accounting — one that assigns CO2 emissions to the consumers responsible for them.
“Instead of looking at carbon dioxide emissions only in terms of what is released inside our borders, we also looked at [...] -
Top NASA scientist argues for increasing carbon taxes (the Höglund mechanism)
Top climate scientist, Dr, James Hansen of the NASA, is perhaps best known for bringing global warming to the world’s attention in the 1980s, when he first testified before Congress.to sound the alarm on global warming some 20 years ago. Dr Hansen new book is called ” Storms of my Grandchildren”.
Right now, the policy being [...] -
Copenhagen talks must collapse says Climate Expert James Hansen
As reported in New Scientist. NASA’s James Hansen (One of the scientists who raised the alarm on climate change) believes we have come to a point where we cannot compromise with climate. Echoing the ideas put forward by this Foundation, he calls for increasingly high fees on emissions until they abate. He claims the present [...]