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Emissions Trading is not working
If there was ever any real indication of the failure of the use of market mechanism in an attempt to reduce carbon dioxide emissions it is the news that carbon emission brokers have been laid off in...
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Reporting on Climate Change
Nicholas Stern wrote a report a few years ago. Everyone praised it, not because it contained any illuminating insights or great original thinking; environmentalists have been making the points that Mr...
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Emission Trading – a tax on emission savings
The Government is talking about setting a minimum price for carbon (by which they mean carbon dioxide) for the trading that is done in carbon dioxide under the Emissions Trading Scheme. It is an...
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Closing down the carbon exchange
When I first learned about the proposal to use a system of carbon credits and carbon trading as the main means of defeating climate change I was sceptical. This concept, pushed by the United Kingdom,...
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How Green Was the Budget?
On Wednesday the British Finance Minister, who is rather grandly called the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced the budget for the coming financial year. I have never understood why it is called a...
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Why do we know better?
Andrew Warren of the Association of the Conservation of Energy has written an interesting article comparing theUnited KingdomwithGermanywithin the context of climate change measures. Both nations are...
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Biochar Madness?
You might run across the term “biochar”. Inventing a word which is prefaced by “bio” give the word an impression of green, sustainable and environmentally friend, like biofuel and biomass, but these...
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Australia Announces a new Tax on Carbon Dioxide Emissions
No one likes to pay tax and everyone can think of many reasons why any particular tax is bad. New taxes are particularly unpopular and take time to get used to. A new tax has to become acceptable for...
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Emissions: onwards and upwards and more of them
Every year, when some nation tries get some international consensus on the greenhouse gas emissions made by aviation. These emissions are usually discharged at high level, making them last longer in...
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Emissions Trading – good for business but bad for the environment
Europe’s Emissions Trading System has been around a few years. It has had many teething problems, including some shocking cases of fraud and governmental incompetence, and I have always argued against...
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