Comments on: Carbon credits discredited http://jnarvey.com/2007/01/12/carbon-credits-discredited/ Vancouver writer Jonathon Narvey blogs about current affairs, politics, media trends and life on Canada's west coast Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:41:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: <![CDATA[Jonathon Narvey]]> http://jnarvey.com/2007/01/12/carbon-credits-discredited/#comment-36 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:34:00 +0000 http://jnarvey.com/?p=68#comment-36 Thanks for the feedback and the link, by the way. I'll have to check out that Straight cover story (I think I remember it, actually). Thanks for the feedback and the link, by the way. I’ll have to check out that Straight cover story (I think I remember it, actually).

]]> By: <![CDATA[Jonathon Narvey]]> http://jnarvey.com/2007/01/12/carbon-credits-discredited/#comment-35 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 02:33:00 +0000 http://jnarvey.com/?p=68#comment-35 If we could get a carbon credits scheme where polluters could actually trade for carbon-sucking projects that were verifiable and actually worked, I'd be willing to support it. But asking corporations or countries to invest in the current system doesn't make sense to me. It's sort of like asking people to invest in a new kind of stock market before there are any enforceable rules established for which companies' stocks can be traded or what to do if virtually none of the companies listed can submit basic accounting figures. If we could get a carbon credits scheme where polluters could actually trade for carbon-sucking projects that were verifiable and actually worked, I’d be willing to support it. But asking corporations or countries to invest in the current system doesn’t make sense to me. It’s sort of like asking people to invest in a new kind of stock market before there are any enforceable rules established for which companies’ stocks can be traded or what to do if virtually none of the companies listed can submit basic accounting figures.

]]> By: <![CDATA[Terry Glavin]]> http://jnarvey.com/2007/01/12/carbon-credits-discredited/#comment-34 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:19:00 +0000 http://jnarvey.com/?p=68#comment-34 Why not some of both? It's a tragedy-of-the-commons problem. Last spring I wrote a cover piece for the Straight on climate change, paying most of my attention to Tim Flannery & his ideas. I referred favourably to the Brit Aubrey Meyer's "contraction and convergence" proposition - get a proper global agreement on annual carbon-dioxide emissions with a schedule for sacling them back; allocate a global carbon "currency" on a per-capita basis, then allow governments to buy, sell, and trade.<br /><br /> Or some version of that. <br /><br /> Good post, anyway. <br /> <br /> And somehow I lost you on my blog links. You're back up now, under Canuckistan Popular Front.<br /><br /> Cheers, <br /><br /> TG Why not some of both? It’s a tragedy-of-the-commons problem. Last spring I wrote a cover piece for the Straight on climate change, paying most of my attention to Tim Flannery & his ideas. I referred favourably to the Brit Aubrey Meyer’s “contraction and convergence” proposition - get a proper global agreement on annual carbon-dioxide emissions with a schedule for sacling them back; allocate a global carbon “currency” on a per-capita basis, then allow governments to buy, sell, and trade.

Or some version of that.

Good post, anyway.

And somehow I lost you on my blog links. You’re back up now, under Canuckistan Popular Front.

Cheers,

TG

]]> By: <![CDATA[tglavin]]> http://jnarvey.com/2007/01/12/carbon-credits-discredited/#comment-33 Sun, 14 Jan 2007 01:17:00 +0000 http://jnarvey.com/?p=68#comment-33 Why not some of both? It's a tragedy-of-the-commons problem. Last spring I wrote a cover piece for the Straight on climate change, paying most of my attention to Tim Flannery & his ideas. I referred favourably to the Brit Aubrey Meyer's "contraction and convergence" proposition - get a proper global agreement on annual carbon-dioxide emissions with a schedule for sacling them back; allocate a global carbon "currency" on a per-capita basis, then allow governments to buy, sell, and trade.<br /><br /> Or some version of that. <br /><br /> Good post, anyway. <br /> <br /> And somehow I lost you on my blog links. You're back up now, under Canuckistan Popular Front.<br /><br /> Cheers, <br /><br /> TG Why not some of both? It’s a tragedy-of-the-commons problem. Last spring I wrote a cover piece for the Straight on climate change, paying most of my attention to Tim Flannery & his ideas. I referred favourably to the Brit Aubrey Meyer’s “contraction and convergence” proposition - get a proper global agreement on annual carbon-dioxide emissions with a schedule for sacling them back; allocate a global carbon “currency” on a per-capita basis, then allow governments to buy, sell, and trade.

Or some version of that.

Good post, anyway.

And somehow I lost you on my blog links. You’re back up now, under Canuckistan Popular Front.

Cheers,

TG

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