Tag Archive for 'Lord Nicholas Stern'
OECD report finds carbon taxes and emission trading least costly option to reduce CO2 emissions
November 9th, 2013 by Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
According to a new OECD study, carbon taxes and emission trading systems are the most cost-effective means of reducing CO2 emissions, and should be at the centre of government efforts to tackle climate change. Effective Carbon Prices shows that taxes and trading systems are preferable to other policies, such as feed-in tariffs, subsidies and other […]
Is Green Growth possible?
December 4th, 2012 by Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Economic growth not only leads to rising turnovers and incomes but also increases greenhouse-gas emissions. Can “Green Growth” be a way out of this dilemma? Is it “a fairytale or a strategy”? Issues like this are being debated at the international climate summit in Doha. British growth critic Professor Tim Jackson; and Ottmar Edenhofer, chief […]
The Durban Vision Statement – unprecedented transformation required for global sustainability
December 15th, 2011 by Stockholm Environment Institute
Looking ahead to Rio+20 and future climate negotiations, four of the world’s leading research institutes on global sustainability have released a statement calling on world leaders to “adopt a new mindset to listen to the voice of science and knowledge and address the unavoidable interconnections between global sustainability, poverty eradication, social justice and economic development […]
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