Carbon Trading Lecture at UofC [Event]
Larry Lohmann, the editor of “Carbon Trading: A Critical Conversation on Climate Change, Privatisation and Power”, an exhaustively-documented new book critiquing “carbon trading” is speaking in Calgary on January 14th.
He argues that carbon trading is an ineffective method for reducing carbon emissions.
I believe that carbon trading IS an effective, available, and actionable approach to reducing carbon emissions (at least in theory) and am pretty interested to hear his arguments to the contrary.
Carbon Trading: Solution to Climate Change or Corporate Resource Grab?
When: January 14th, 2007
Time: 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location: MacEwan Student Centre, Escalus room
Street: 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB
Peter Viktor, environmental economist at Canada’s York University, offers his thoughts on cap-and-trade systems, carbon taxes, and the consequences of the Bali Conference over at the exceptional and budding Real News. It includes a very succinct and simple explanation of cap-and-trade vs. carbon taxes and some of the challenges to implementation they might present.
Also: here’s an exceptional debate between Annie Petsonk of Environmental Defense and Daphne Wysham of the Institute for Policy Studies on Democracy Now! in November 2007. The full transcript and multiple audio and visual formats are available for free download.
See you there!
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