Archive for May 9th, 2006

Kay on the CET

9th 2006f May, 2006, Peter

Business economist John Kay, who writes for the Financial Times, this week discusses the problems of the European carbon emissions trading market. He argues that any engineered marketplace, such electricity markets and the European CET, are bedevilled by:

lawyers seeking to define away every possible contingency,
lobbyists seeking to manipulate the rules in their clients’ favour, [...]