Energy/Carbon Pricing & Economics
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‘Climate Bubble’ Poses Enormous Risks, Paulson Warns
In this June 21 op ed in the New York Times, ex-U.S. Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson urges his Republican colleagues ... -
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Climate-Smart Policies Create Jobs, Economic Development
A new World Bank report looks at climate-smart policies in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, the United States, and the European Union that created jobs ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy PoliticsEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsJurisdictionsRenewable EnergySolarUnited States
Gore Points to Solar Price Parity in Fight Against Climate Change
In an article in Rolling Stone June 18, Climate Reality Project founder and ex-U.S. Vice President Al Gore points to price parity for solar ... -
‘Overly Simplistic’ IPCC Model Understates Economic Impact of Climate Change: Lord Stern
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change method for calculating economic risk suffers from “an overly simplistic model of how the economy grows, too little ... -
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Rapid Oil and Gas Development Fuels Boomtown Social Impact
Fort McMurray, Alberta and other energy towns have become focal points for a cluster of intense debates: between renewable and non-renewable energy development, between ... -
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IPCC Vetting Process Leads to ‘Strangely Passive’ Language on Carbon Pollution
Intensive vetting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s assessment reports “weakens the urgency for climate change action” and leads to “strangely passive” language ... -
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Solar PV Costs in China Will Match Coal by 2017
The cost of building large-scale solar plants in China could match the cost of coal-generated electricity within a couple of years, Suntech Power CEO ... -
Climate & SocietyEnergy/Carbon Pricing & EconomicsGeneral RenewablesJurisdictionsRenewable EnergyUnited States
U.S. Renewable Portfolio Standards Raise Average Electricity Rates Less Than 2%
A review by the U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory found that Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs) in 29 states ... -
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‘Energy Superpower’ Becomes a Losing Hand for Canada
Canada is losing out in Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s single-minded quest to make the country a global energy superpower, renowned energy economist Jeff Rubin ... -
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Wisconsin Scenarios Envision Climate Change Impacts Through 2070
Elephants roaming a “newly-arid Wisconsin” and robotic farm workers are among the more fanciful scenarios emerging from a University of Wisconsin-Madison project, designed to ... -
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China Carbon Cap the ‘Most Important Turning Point’ of the Decade
A day after the U.S. released its new carbon pollution regulation for power plants, China announced that it will set absolute and intensity-based limits ... -
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‘Remarkably Cheap’ Climate Action Would Boost U.S. Economy
One of the toughest critiques of forthcoming regulations on carbon pollution from fossil fuel generation shows the limits would reduce U.S. incomes by only ... -
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Poor Economics Put Tar Sands/Oil Sands Project On Ice
The Joslyn tar sands/oil sands project northwest of Fort McMurray, Alberta is on indefinite hold, and project partners said their concern about the economics ... -
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While Congress Dithers, U.S. States Make Cap and Trade Work
Less than a week before President Barack Obama is to release his widely-anticipated climate action plan, and four years after national legislation died in ... -
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Straw Poll of U.S. Conservatives Supports Taxing Carbon Emissions
Joe Romm, editor of the popular Climate Progress blog, describes it as “the most interesting climate policy debate you haven’t heard of.” In June ...