We’ll meet the COVID challenge by improving our current treatments and practices, not by either jettisoning them or letting the disease run its course. Here’s how that same logic applies to climate change. “Let’s be more pragmatic: the antidote is here!” My contribution on EcosystemMarketplace
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Interview on Ecosystem Marketplace – A New Green Deal For The Netherlands: Will the Dutch Embrace Voluntary Carbon?
Steve Zwick for Ecosystem Marketplace “Several European organsations are experimenting with voluntary carbon markets to drive down greenhouse-gas emissions, often in cooperation with state and federal governments. The Dutch effort is called the “Green Deal”, and proponent Jos Cozijnsen hopes “to make it work by making carbon trading fun.” 30 January 2018 | UTRECHT |…
Testing a Dutch non-ETS CO2 market mechanism
As was announced at the National Climate Summit in October 2016 “Bring Paris Home”: the “Green Deal Pilot National Carbon Market” will now be signed in The Hague on 11 May. Signatories are by Environment Minister Sharon Dijksma and 16 market participants, ranging from environmental federations, local climate funds and ‘Natuurmonumenten’ to Essent, Energy and…
CO2 Auction floor price: good for energy transition & industry
Member States should ask the Commission to propose an auction floor price. To achieve the agreed EU CO2 targets for the emissions trading sector (11.000 sites), the level of the CO2 price does not seem to matter; it is based on demand and supply. However, because the EU has other goals, such as a rapid…
“Set an EU target for negative CO2 emissions: -20% in 2050 (starting 50% in 2030)
The Paris Agreement requires to have the same amount of global greenhouse gas emissions as reductions by 2050 in order to remain well below 2 degrees warming. The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency with IIASA translated this target into carbon budgets (just for CO2). Each year we emit 40 billion tons of CO2. So, we currently…
What CoP21 and Paris Agreement mean for carbon trading
The Climate Summit in Paris began with calls from Heads State and CEOs of companies tor Carbon Pricing. One can say, after Paris there is no longer any doubt about the climate problem and the importance of carbon trading. The summit ended with two surprises: 1) the nations want to keep temperature rise well below…