Tagged: carbon price

Climate Shock - Hot Topic

Bryan Walker • Mar 12, 2015 •

• Book reviews,
• carbon price,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• Economics,
• geoengineering

Uncertainties attend the predictions of climate science, as the scientists themselves are careful to acknowledge. Reluctant policy makers use this uncertainty to support a “wait and see” response to climate change. Prominent American economists Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman in their recent book Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet are scathing in […] … Read More

New Zealand’s double dealing and special pleading over the second Kyoto period: part the second - Hot Topic

Mr February • Dec 22, 2012 •

• carbon price,
• Climate business,
• Climate politics,
• ETS,
• Kyoto 2,
• NZU,
• Tim Groser

Is Tim Groser a Kyoto pariah? Or a Kyoto visonary? A global emissions reduction emissary or is he tar-sanded with a Canadian brush? I once more try to make sense of New Zealand’s double dealing and special pleading over the Kyoto Protocol second commitment period and the Doha hooha. This time with the aid of […] … Read More