[MCN] Environmentalists can put climate future at risk

[Lance Olsen]

“Being a committed, consistent climate hawk will occasionally put one at odds with 
the rhetorical tropes, policy habits, and priorities of environmentalism.” 

"Think solar panels in fragile desert ecosystems. Wind turbines that kill birds. Transmission lines 
that bisect species habitats.”

https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/27/16935382/climate-change-ugly-tradeoffs <https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/27/16935382/climate-change-ugly-tradeoffs>


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Harvard Business Review. January 5, 2015

Climate Change Is an Overwhelming Problem. Here Are 4 Things Executives Can Do Today

#3. Swallow hard — and raise the price of carbon. If we are to meet climate pledges made under the Paris climate agreement, the cost of emitting carbon dioxide must rise to $50–$100 per ton by 2030, dramatically higher than the current EU price of less than $6. 


https://hbr.org/2018/01/climate-change-is-an-overwhelming-problem-here-are-4-things-executives-can-do-today

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Financial Times  March 28, 2018 

Special Report
How to make a carbon pricing system work
Compensation for those who lose out and sanctions on non-compliance are needed
Hot air: The carbon pricing now in use falls far short of what is needed to reach the globally agreed targets
MARTIN WOLF


“Carbon pricing is a good idea whose time has not yet come. But it has to do so. “

“The chances are high that the effort will fail. If so, our goose will be cooked.”

https://www.ft.com/content/2d9490f2-1291-11e8-a765-993b2440bd73

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New York Times Oct. 8, 2018
New U.N. Climate Report Says Put a High Price on Carbon

By Brad Plumer

"A recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that the average carbon price across 42 major economies was around $8 per ton in 2018, far below the level most experts say is necessary to address climate change. Those low prices, some researchers have argued, may reflect political constraints on pricing carbon directly.

"For comparison, the United Nations report estimated that governments would need to impose effective carbon prices of $135 to $5,500 per ton of carbon dioxide pollution by 2030 to keep overall global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit.”


https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/climate/carbon-tax-united-nations-report-nordhaus.html?action


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