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How to help consumers bear the costs of climate policy
Welcome to the Environment and Energy Insights blog of the Stanford Environmental & Natural Resources Law Program. Meg Caldwell, Deborah Sivas, Buzz Thompson, and I will all be regular contributors...
View ArticleVisibility, public consciousness, and NIMBYism
Riding the train to the COP each morning in Denmark, I pass within spitting distance of not 1 but 2 major coal fired power stations operated by DONG, the local utility. Every morning, the generating...
View ArticlePaper at COP-15, a pile of clothes at the airport, and China’s offer
Anyone who has been to a COP quickly realizes that there is a super-abundance of excellent and very current written material available free for the taking. I quickly became hyper-selective in my...
View ArticleTime to get back to work on climate – real action begins at home
With the Copenhagen Accord “noted” by the UNFCCC, and many full planes departed from the only airport in the world (to my knowledge) with teak flooring – not to mention gorgeous mid-century modern...
View ArticleThe key development of week 2 at the COP – no more BAU at the UNFCCC
It seems that the UN is waking up to the fact that at least for the UNFCCC, if not for global emissions of GHGs, BAU is no longer an acceptable option. Many have focussed on the pros and cons of the...
View ArticleThe possible climate impacts of rebalancing – economic policy is climate policy
Anyone who studies climate change for long concludes that development and greenhouse gas emissions are tightly coupled. This is true both here and in the developing world. The great recession has...
View ArticleClimate change plays second fiddle: USTR opens investigation into Chinese...
Climate change is not, and is never going to be, the first priority for either party to the US-China relationship. But playing second fiddle is one thing, becoming the cause of a global trade war is...
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