Climate Policy

A Bad Analogy in Australia Climate Policy. Australia has released its much awaited carbon tax proposal (here in PDF). I am just now browsing through it. This analogy in the document strikes me as particularly unfortunate: ...
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In the past, I'd suggest that you've downplayed the importance of the climate denial movement in the U.S. in terms of its impact on climate/energy policy. As a political scientist I'd be very interested if you could expand on this a ...
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I am amazed to see views that have been espoused by The Breakthrough Institute, in The Hartwell Paper and The Climate Fix go from being outside the mainstream perspective on climate policy to being highly consistent with the approach ...
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The diplomatic disaster that was the Copenhagen climate conference in December 2009 signalled to many that climate policy needed to change course. In this talk , Professor Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado will explain why ...
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In the current issue of Nature, science policy polymath and well-known cynic Daniel Greenberg reviews The Climate Fix. Greenberg has some very positive things to say, upbraids me for my political naivete (showing his well earned role as ...
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Climate policy in the United States is moving beyond the serial failures of cap-and-trade focused on putting a high price on carbon. A hint of where climate policy imay be going can be found in an interview with Reed Hundt, ...
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Obama Administration: The Courts are the Wrong Place for Climate Policy · The Obama Administration has issued a remarkable brief siding with energy companies over whether they should be liable for the effects of their greenhouse gases ...
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Climate policy has been hamstrung for many years by the notion that the influence of greenhouse gas emissions on society (and the environment) through climate change can be precisely assessed, and that such attribution can be used to ...
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Then we moved to the front lines of climate policy, the local level, where millions of citizens are expected, or at least hoped, to dramatically change the way they live and work. On the front lines, we found sometimes inconsistent and ...
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Climate Policy Boundary Conditions · The Times reports that the European Union is set to propose increasing its unilateral emissions-reduction target to 30% by 2020: The European Commission is determined to press ahead with the cuts ...
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