| Cutting greenhouse gas emissions while keeping the lights on for a growing global population is a huge but critical challenge. We have to believe it is a challenge we can meet. At this year’s United Nations Climate Summit in New York, delegates gathered to “catalyze climate action” and “raise political ambition.”
Carbon pricing. The summit’s rhetoric may be high-minded but its agenda is suitably pragmatic. One clear sign of that pragmatism is its interest in carbon pricing. At first sight, carbon pricing—imposing a cost on carbon to encourage polluters to cut their greenhouse gas emissions—can look like a fiddly response to the challenge of climate change. An accountant’s solution to a scientist’s problem. But, in reality, it is one of the best tools we have..........................................Full Article: Source |