Climate Policy

As they note, earlier is better: "From the perspective of technology diffusion, a desirable climate change policy should provide polluting industries with strong incentives to take early preventive actions." Chen and Tseng model the investment decision ...
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I chatted with guest host David Hyde about the grim situation for climate policy at the national and international levels and the rays of hope coming from cities. Listen if you're so inclined: I've been a big fan of "The Conversation" since I got to ...
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The reality is that the world will be better off by focusing on sensible alternatives under the Long-Term Cooperative Action track of the UN negotiations and by "getting real" about post-Kyoto international climate policy architecture for the long term ...
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The cornerstone of a conservative climate policy has to be to foster emissions reductions everywhere. The United States should exercise leadership because we have the world's largest economy, but we cannot solve this problem alone. ...
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At that rate, a 40 percent rise in the price of oil would drop consumption by only 3 percent -- a paltry impact, and far too small to justify putting a carbon tax at the center of climate policy. But wait. The actual change in US gasoline consumption ...
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The reality is that a bold new energy and climate change policy would inevitably result in dislocations in certain industries and upset long-established ways of life in many regions; in addition, it would lead to higher prices for basic commodities ...
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First, it's important to recognize that conventional climate economics (which I consider a specialized subset of environmental economics) has an enormously powerful array of tools to bring to bear on the questions of climate policy. ...
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This is the third in a three-part interview with economist Lord Nicholas Stern on climate policy. Watch the first part, in which he argued that failure to address global warming could eventually lead to World War III; and the second part, ...
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This is the second in a three-part interview with economist Lord Nicholas Stern on climate policy. You can watch part one here. Lord Nicholas Stern, one of the world's most prominent climate economists, believes that the fight against global warming ...
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This is the first in a three-part interview with economist Lord Nicholas Stern on climate policy. Lord Nicholas Stern, one of the world's most prominent climate economists, believes that failure to address global warming could eventually lead to World ...
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