Fight Climate Change with Tax, EU Told
01/21/2008 by Daniel Rosenblum
Fight Climate Change with Tax, EU Told (Financial Times)
01/21/2008 by Daniel Rosenblum
Fight Climate Change with Tax, EU Told (Financial Times)
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This is a thorough, somewhat scathing, critique of the EU’s emissions trading scheme by Open Europe, an organization cited in the FT article. It elaborates on how emissions schemes can be gamed and abused to line the pockets of polluters without actually reducing emissions…http://www.openeurope.org.uk/research/etsp2.pdf
Comment by greg — January 21, 2008 @ 11:20 am
Thanks, Greg. I spoke at a meeting Friday and you may be amused to hear that another speaker, on a different panel, told the audience that the European trading scheme has been a success and has laid the groundwork for the current version. Interesting spin!
Comment by Daniel Rosenblum — January 22, 2008 @ 1:12 am