<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">“Being a committed, consistent climate hawk will occasionally put one at odds with <br class="">the rhetorical tropes, policy habits, and priorities of environmentalism.” <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Think solar panels in fragile desert ecosystems. Wind turbines that kill birds. Transmission lines <br class="">that bisect species habitats.”<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/27/16935382/climate-change-ugly-tradeoffs" class="">https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2018/1/27/16935382/climate-change-ugly-tradeoffs</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">—————————————————<br class=""><br class="">Harvard Business Review. January 5, 2015</span></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;" class="">Climate Change Is an Overwhelming Problem. Here Are 4 Things Executives Can Do Today<br class=""><br class="">#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. <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://hbr.org/2018/01/climate-change-is-an-overwhelming-problem-here-are-4-things-executives-can-do-today" class="">https://hbr.org/2018/01/climate-change-is-an-overwhelming-problem-here-are-4-things-executives-can-do-today</a><br class=""><br class="">————————————————<br class=""><br class="">Financial Times March 28, 2018 <br class=""><br class="">Special Report<br class="">How to make a carbon pricing system work<br class="">Compensation for those who lose out and sanctions on non-compliance are needed<br class="">Hot air: The carbon pricing now in use falls far short of what is needed to reach the globally agreed targets<br class="">MARTIN WOLF<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">“Carbon pricing is a good idea whose time has not yet come. But it has to do so. “<br class=""><br class="">“The chances are high that the effort will fail. If so, our goose will be cooked.”<br class=""><br class="">https://www.ft.com/content/2d9490f2-1291-11e8-a765-993b2440bd73<br class=""><br class="">————————————————<br class=""><br class="">New York Times Oct. 8, 2018<br class="">New U.N. Climate Report Says Put a High Price on Carbon<br class=""><br class="">By Brad Plumer<br class=""><br class="">"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.<br class=""><br class="">"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.”<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/climate/carbon-tax-united-nations-report-nordhaus.html?action<br class=""><br class=""></span></div></div></div></div>
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