Posts Tagged ‘carbon pricing’

Secret Advice to Politicians: Design Better Regulations

This article comes as no surprise to anyone looking at the CCS issue:
Secret advice to politicians: oilsands emissions hard to scrub
…Little of the oilsands’ carbon dioxide can be captured because most emissions aren’t concentrated enough, the notes say. For efficient capture, there must be a high concentration of CO2 coming out of a smoke stack. [...]

“A Focus on the Promise of Trade to Combat Climate Change Rather than the Potential for Conflict”

When the Trade Ministers meet to talk climate change and trade, there is promise. These are the folks that generally get things done in government. Toby Heaps has a great account of a first, and very important meeting of international finance ministers on climate change and trade in Bali. One nugget from [...]