Today’s London Financial Times has an editorial calling for political action to secure a successor agreement to the Kyoto Protocol, in the hope of avoiding a climate change catastrophe. Among good, strong words we read:
“Politicians will have to learn how to sell any deal, too. Many countries are responding to climate change by [...]

This time from academic economists at Oxford University.
“A study co-authored by Robert Ritz of Nuffield College, to be presented to the Royal Economic Society’s annual conference next week, said the plan to auction up to 10 per cent of the allowances in 2008-2012, with the rest distributed to companies free, amounted to a substantial [...]

A study by Ireland’s Economic and Social Reseach Institute argues that the February increase in the UK’s air passenger duty — a tax on flights aimed at discouraging travel — is likely to cause people to take more long-distance flights, and thus increase overall carbon emissions arising from air-travel. One would [...]