Let’s agree upon a Climate Change Tax instead of reduction targets
That discussing a Climate Change Tax will be more fruitful than discussing emissions reductions directly may sound counterintuitive. Why not discuss what matters – the reductions? The problem with...
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The answer to making international climate change treaties enforceable? A...
Why are international climate change treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol unenforceable? Is there anything that could be done about it? A Carbon Tax Treaty would enforce itself If we were to agree upon...
View ArticleThe Carbon Tax: unloved by right and left
Why did the world end up with Cap’n Trade instead of a Carbon Tax to curb climate change emissions? I believe the answer lies in the idiosyncrasies of the political right and left: the left loves taxes...
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A Carbon Tax is good for companies
A Carbon Tax is the best way of combating climate change because it gives firms the most stable and easily predicted operating environment. A stable and predictable regulatory framework reduces risk,...
View ArticleA global Carbon Tax would transfer wealth from Oil Producers to Oil Consumers
An interesting observation with regards to a Carbon Tax is that it would mean that oil consuming states would be levying a tax on the world’s oil deposits – effectively transferring some of this...
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Making Carbon Taxes politically acceptable
The first argument people raise against a Carbon Tax is often “it’s not politically viable”. While this isn’t really my concern – I’m discussing what we ought to do – it is of course an important...
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Cap’n Trade: Effect of additional Emissions reduction programmes will be ZERO
Carbon Tax vs Cap’n Trade – an example EU has currently got a Cap’n Trade scheme going, which oil companies operating on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) are participating in. One of many problems...
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EU’s green energy policy causes EU coal use to rise
Europeans have been rather annoyed with Americans over the last decade due to the latter’s total disregard for the need to reduce emissions of climate change gases. However, the funny thing is that...
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