Tag: Climate policy
A carbon tax on investment income could be more fair and...
Jared Starr, UMass Amherst
About 10 years ago, a very thick book written by a French economist became a...
Why taxing cow burps isn’t the best climate solution
Kevin Trenberth, University of Auckland
New Zealand, where agriculture is one of the largest contributors to climate change, is...
Who really owns the oil industry’s future stranded assets? If you...
Gregor Semieniuk, UMass Amherst and Philip Holden, The Open University
When an oil company invests in an expensive new...
6 months after the climate summit, where to find progress on...
Rachel Kyte, Tufts University
Six months ago, negotiators at the United Nations’ Glasgow climate summit celebrated a series of...
How treaties protecting fossil fuel investors could jeopardize global efforts to...
Rachel Thrasher, Boston University; Blake Alexander Simmons, Colorado State University, and Kyla Tienhaara, Queen's University, Ontario
Fossil fuel companies...
Why action on climate change gets stuck and what to do...
Matthew Hoffmann, University of Toronto and Steven Bernstein, University of Toronto
Work crews descended on 12 commuter parking lots in Toronto in late November 2018,...
Youth climate movement puts ethics at the center of the global...
Marion Hourdequin, Colorado College
Even if you’ve never heard of Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish environmentalist who crossed the Atlantic on a sailboat to attend...
With the right guiding principles, carbon taxes can work
Gilbert E. Metcalf, Tufts University
Like most economists, I favor taxing carbon dioxide to cut carbon pollution.
A carbon tax makes fossil fuels like oil and...