Richard Cowart on Emissions Trading

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AdamDaBau5 says: 30 Jun 2010 9:36

You people sicken me. Fascism, really? You anthropocentric people need to realize that the biotic community is at risk, and if we do not immediately change the market by drastically increasing the prices for carbon based fuels, then we will all be dead in 30 years from basic environmental disaster, such as no clean air, no clean water, weaker crop yields, no animal biodiversity and this is all at fault of consumerism and overpopulation. Try reading a book once in a while you misguided crowd this guy is absolutely right. Only the markets will cause the most change through adaptation to government policy.

Global 1776 says: 11 Jun 2010 21:17

Since you folk are suggesting a tax on breathing in order to save your fiat empire. I suggest all of you liars shut your mouths immediately- because you're emitting the most hot air of all. Your "moral" authority is completely bankrupt. Help the environment? You can't even help your own people out of the muck you pushed them in since the great European union. The unrestrained lust for achieving dominance over human energy systems is obvious to anyone with sound reason. Whom are of greater number and strengths than your digital tower of babylon reports to you. This is politics of austerity; and the green movement is fascism with a face lift and, oh so glamorous makeup... Implemented through mission creep and thus always to tyrants. But the sovereignty of these United States, and liberty in the hearts of mankind will prevail.

robey says: 11 Jun 2010 14:27

@bobette.. are you reallyyy tryinggg to find a loverr on a carbon tax website.. ?! get a lifeee (:

jah says: 16 Feb 2010 13:27

Carbon tax is nothing but another way of gorvenments and banks to get peoples money !

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jb says: 12 Dec 2009 0:39

Scientific Fascism.

pjcostelloe says: 09 Dec 2009 23:12

what

Dave says: 09 Dec 2009 15:27

But what will be the effect on the poorest in Ireland, let alone across the world, if we don't do something about Climate Change?

pjcostelloe says: 04 Dec 2009 13:35

a carbon tax on solid fuel coal etc in this current climate in ireland will only effect the poorest people

About this Event

22 Jun 2009

Carbon Prices, Consumer Costs, and Efficiency Solutions – Climate Action in the US and Ideas for the EU

About the Speech:

Richard Cowart outlined how “foundation policies” for clean energy, and especially energy efficiency, are necessary for successful reductions in GHGs.

He drew on his extensive experience advising the ten states of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the US Congress on the design of cap-and-trade systems to outline lessons for the EU. In particular he argued that a “cap and invest” strategy is the best approach to carbon revenues [from carbon tax], especially if carbon revenues are recycled directly into programmatic energy efficiency measures.

About the Speaker:

Richard Cowart is the Director of European Programs for the Regulatory Assistance Project. RAP has worked in more than 40 US states and has trained government officials in 16 other nations.

Prior to joining RAP Mr. Cowart served for 13 years as Commissioner and Chair of the Vermont Public Service Board, and for five years as an Assistant Professor of Planning and Environmental Law at the University of California, Berkeley.

Over the past six years he has assisted the state and regional initiatives working to design carbon cap-and-trade programs in the US.

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