climate economics:
"Tesco to put carbon scores on goods" says The Torygraph. Sounds like a good idea in principle. Do go on ...The labels - which will be put on 30 products, including tomatoes, potatoes, orange juice, light bulbs and washing detergent...
Posted on April 28, 2008 5:08 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Internatioanl Rivers says The great majority of hydros in the CDM would very likely be built regardless of receiving credits (in CDM-jargon they are "non-additional"), in contravention of the mechanism's basic principle. The CDM was designed to issue credits to...
Posted on December 3, 2007 3:20 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Interesting post on this over at James Empty Blog. So: Weitzmans basic thesis is: the PDF of the climate sensitivity has a long fat tail; the cost diminishes less quickly; so the "expected utility", which is the integral of the...
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Posted on October 6, 2007 4:58 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Interesting post over at Green Business News, suggesting an imbalance. In fact there are two possible balances: between green taxes and green spending, and the taxes and the social costs. It would seem neat that the taxes ought to balance...
Posted on September 5, 2007 10:23 PM • 18 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A colleague told me about an interesting article I'd missing in the grauniad: The inconvenient truth about the carbon offset industry. Which I fear merely confirms my lack of trust of these things....
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Posted on June 18, 2007 9:12 PM • 10 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The IEA are the Institute for Economic Affairs. The quote on their mainpage shows what they think of themselves The price of economic freedom is eternal vigilance, and as long as the IEA is around, we may be sure that...
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Posted on May 21, 2007 3:33 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
UBS to launch first Global Warming index says the FT (just next to an advert about high net worth individuals designed to annoy scientists...). Its not perfectly clear what its doing (I'm hoping James will investigate!). They say Retail and...
Posted on May 1, 2007 6:12 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The question is... are carbon offsets OK? Can you throw away your guilt/sins about a jet-setting lifestyle by spending a few extra dollars on carbon offsetting? The answer is, I don't know (refernces: my review of AIT (which was intended...
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Posted on January 12, 2007 11:53 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Stern (presumably to inflate his damage estimates (or am I being unfair? After all, cliamte change will continue beyond 2100...) runs scenarios out to 2200 (see fig 6.5). But if you look at those pics, the lines are suspiciously straight...
Posted on January 8, 2007 4:40 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
James Annan makes two good points in a comment, which I'll reproduce here: Actually, it looks like Stern chose a rather optimistic cost of stabilisation, 1/3 of the cost that JQ estimated, although of course JQ does his best to...
Posted on January 3, 2007 7:23 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... as said by the wise CIP in the comments. Although I wasn't quite sure how to interpret it. BTW, this is yet more Stern stuff - sorry. So the first thing to say is... I'm not really happy expressing...
Posted on December 21, 2006 2:54 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
OK, I'm desperately trying to understand Stern, and failing. Things just don't seem to connect together properly. Possibly if I actually read the entire thing carefully... but who has the time. So, if anyone can explain to me: Stern sez:...
Posted on December 19, 2006 5:36 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Cambridge Energy Forum organised a day-conference on Sustainable Energy - 1 Dec.2006. Sadly I had a program meeting in the morning and children to pick up after school so I only got to go to bits of it: which...
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Posted on December 1, 2006 1:48 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Prometheus, I find a review of Stern by Nordhaus. First an aside: N is the first mainstream commentator I've seen to point out that the Great War on Terror was undertaken "with no discernible economic analysis"... as I've pointed...
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Posted on November 22, 2006 12:11 PM • 19 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
It looks now rather unlikely that I'll bother read much more Stern, and will instead lazily rely on others. Tim Worstall seems to be doing some reading, and (surprise!) doesn't believe Sterns economic numbers. SR is getting lots of good...
Posted on October 31, 2006 7:49 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Though of course I havent read the whole thing or anywhere close. I wonder if anyone ever will. Maybe it will be fun reading for Christmas! Or maybe not... Looking at Part I. First science nugget: "a doubling of pre-industrial...
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Posted on October 30, 2006 8:55 AM • 13 Comments • 1 TrackBacks
I am a Dragon. I emerge from my Egg. More...
