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=====How to Set a Price on Carbon Pollution===== | |||
===== Calculating the amount companies owe for causing global warming ===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2023-05-amount-companies-owe-global.amp by Bob Yirka 23/5/23 PHYS ORG] | |||
Prior research has found that it is possible to tie certain environmental events to climate change—the current heat wave in parts of South Asia, for example, or excessive flooding in Myanmar and Bangladesh. As it stands now, governments wind up paying to restore order in such areas, or in some cases, insurance companies pay for those who have coverage. | |||
===== Earthjustice Applauds Significant International Human Rights Ruling on Climate Change ===== | |||
[https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/earthjustice-applauds-significant-international-human-rights-ruling-on-climate-change by Miranda Fox 3/7/25 EARTH JUSTICE] | |||
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued its Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency and Human Rights today, a historic milestone in the international response to the climate crisis. | |||
===== Calculating the amount companies owe for causing global warming ===== | |||
[https://phys.org/news/2023-05-amount-companies-owe-global.amp by Bob Yirka 23/5/23 PHYS ORG] | |||
Prior research has found that it is possible to tie certain environmental events to climate change—the current heat wave in parts of South Asia, for example, or excessive flooding in Myanmar and Bangladesh. As it stands now, governments wind up paying to restore order in such areas, or in some cases, insurance companies pay for those who have coverage. | |||
===== Scientists Behind ‘Net Zero’ Concept Say Nations Are Getting It Wrong ===== | |||
[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-03/scientists-behind-net-zero-concept-say-nations-are-getting-it-wrong?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTczMzMyNzM1MCwiZXhwIjoxNzMzOTMyMTUwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTlg1R0ZEV1gyUFQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGMkY1NTFERTc4ODA0RkJBOTk5NEFBMTQ5RTM1NjQ3RCJ9.dXQ3ra_cY9W4vaE6qfvIbGvc-6uyb0rMWVymAXbWwgU by Eric Roston 12/03/2024 Bloomberg] | |||
There are consequences of this accounting mismatch. The first is, it increases the urgency to stop burning fossil fuels, the authors write, or to capture and bury pollution with emerging methods. The climate that humanity grew up in relied on millions of years of coal, oil and gas sitting underground. The main solution therefore is to leave it there, capture the carbon from smokestacks and permanently bury it, or clean it out of the open air. | |||
Returning carbon underground is “geological net zero,” and it’s what the authors originally had in mind in 2009. No countries are currently pursuing it. | |||
Countries should be able deduct CO2 that’s drawn down permanently, back into the Earth, from their gross fossil-fuel emissions. But carbon absorbed by land and oceans doesn’t count as “geological net zero,” and should not be credited against emissions. | |||
===== Defense arguments are set to open in a landmark climate case brought by Montana youth ===== | |||
[https://www.npr.org/2023/06/19/1182999615/defense-arguments-to-begin-in-youth-climate-trial-in-montana by Ellis Juhlin 19/6/23 npr] | |||
Attorneys for the State of Montana said Friday they will not call one of their top expert witnesses in the only youth climate lawsuit to make it all the way to trial in the U.S. | |||
===== The COP28 climate agreement is a step backwards on fossil fuels ===== | |||
[https://theconversation.com/the-cop28-climate-agreement-is-a-step-backwards-on-fossil-fuels-219753 by Alaa Al Khourdajie 13/12/23 THE CONVERSATION] | |||
The COP28 climate summit in Dubai has adjourned. The result is “The UAE consensus” on fossil fuels. This text, agreed upon by delegates from nearly 200 countries, calls for the world to move “away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner”. Stronger demands to “phase out” fossil fuels were ultimately unsuccessful. | |||
===== How to Set a Price on Carbon Pollution ===== | |||
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Still, enacting a carbon tax will be a big political lift. If a window does open for it, climate scientists, economists and politicians need to be ready to pounce. They will need to get it right the first time. And they will need to explain why a specific tax rate is justified. | Still, enacting a carbon tax will be a big political lift. If a window does open for it, climate scientists, economists and politicians need to be ready to pounce. They will need to get it right the first time. And they will need to explain why a specific tax rate is justified. | ||
