This looks interesting. Argues for using the carbon allowances and auction revenues from a cap and trade system carefully to drive this type of innovation.
This by Ropbert Rapier, who is generally pretty sharp, and helpful in trying to understand what the heck is happening in the ethanol market
The economics of supply and demand are impossible to deny. As a result we need to regulate biofuels so that their feedstocks don't drive these impacts.
Grist's David Roberts: "People think tackling climate change means pain. If we can change enough minds about that, the rest of the arguments will be rendered moot. If we can't, all else is for naught."
NY Times blog from the Authors of Freakonomics, Dubner and Levitt
Authored by Sir Nicholas Stern (former World Bank chief economist; current head of the UK Gov'ts Economic Service), the landmark "Stern Review" concludes that the benefits of strong early action far outweigh the costs of ignoring it. The NYer summarizes.
brown suggests reducing income taxes and instituting energy taxes instead. sweden's already doing it.
