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How Cap and Trade Was Born
July 21, 2009 | Posted by Tony Kreindler in Links and Quotes
The latest Smithsonian magazine has an in-depth piece that tells the story of “How an unlikely mix of environmentalists and free-market conservatives hammered out the strategy known as cap-and-trade.”
The story is powerful — it starts with a hike, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘green capitalism’
22 Jul
How Cap and Trade was born
14 Jul
Desertec – a European adventure in Morrocan hands?
Taken from the hbs-Blog Climate Equity, posted 13.07.2009 by Georg Koessler
While people are still discussing whether it is unjust for Europe to import not only oil and gemstones but also solar energy from Africa, and what the consequences for the local communities are, a new twist comes to the plot.
Let’s go back to the beginning: [...]
1 Jun
The profit in the Kyoto Protocoll.
The Indian Newspaper MAIL reported on its Online portal about the negative aspects of CDM giving local examples, read the full article The great carbon credit con: Why are we paying the Third World to poison its environment?.
I especially found the Graphic interesting.
28 May
Smart Putin acknowledges Global Warming – to sell gas?
An article by NATURE tells how Russia is turning its position around and – even though quietly – say that Climate Change is human-made. The ex-IPCC Vice-Chair and top russian climate scientist Yuri Izrael is now conviced. Wow!
But first critical voices have been heard already: Russia wants a strong Copenhagen-goal – for the West. Knowing [...]
10 May
an activating climate-partnership needs courage!
Dear readers,
at the German Green Party Convention in Berlin, held Friday to Sunday, I was the last speaker on the main topic of the Election-manifesto. The chapter was on “One World” and I focused on the global climate partnership. If you are interested, read the speech (German original below, translation by Google) and comment. [...]
26 Apr
Obama talks abut Green New Deal – and some other “solutions”
Except the part about “clean coal”, it sounds good. No prominent mentioning of nuklear experiments. Here is an excerpt form the White House website on what the new Administration plans to do, sound like GREEN NEW DEAL to me!:
18 Mar
20 theses against green capitalism
Here you find the “20 Theses against Green Capitalism” which currently float through the internet in various languages. I first saw it in the forum of the CLIMATE ACTION 09. Basically they challenge the “greening” of our system by saying that things like the GREEN NEW DEAL are greenwashing of the capitalist system. To sustain growth [...]
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