Americas > ECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE: A price on carbon is neither liberal nor conservative. It’s just practical.

ECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE: A price on carbon is neither liberal nor conservative. It’s just practical.

Published 14:52 on February 11, 2017  /  Last updated at 13:07 on December 19, 2023  / Carbon Pulse /  Americas, Carbon Taxes, Contributed Content, Other Content, US

Earlier this week, a group of prominent Republicans called for a nationwide price on carbon to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and slow climate change. It’s a proposal we should all be talking about, but we know Congress won’t – at least not before 2018. Still, the proposal exists, and it may revive the only debate we should be having now: not if we should have a price on carbon, but how to determine it and what to do with the proceeds. Here’s a primer from Ecosystem Marketplace to help you along.
Earlier this week, a group of prominent Republicans called for a nationwide price on carbon to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and slow climate change. It’s a proposal we should all be talking about, but we know Congress won’t – at least not before 2018. Still, the proposal exists, and it may revive the only debate we should be having now: not if we should have a price on carbon, but how to determine it and what to do with the proceeds. Here’s a primer from Ecosystem Marketplace to help you along.


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