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Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? Demystifying carbon budgets.

March 18, 2021

Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? Demystifying carbon budgets. Confused about carbon budgets for the Paris climate  goals? Zero by 2050 or 2030? 1.5°C or 2°C? Overshoot or not? There is a maze of contradictory positions,  claiming to be based on research evidence. But the assumptions behind much of that […]

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The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures

September 26, 2020

The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures Abstract This paper reviews and analyses a decarbonization policy called the Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) system developed by David Fleming. The TEQs system involves rationing fossil fuel energy use for a nation on the basis of either a contracting carbon emission budget […]

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The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures

September 18, 2020

The Political Economy of Deep Decarbonization: Tradable Energy Quotas for Energy Descent Futures Energies 2020, 13(17), 4304; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13174304 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Rethinking Energy: Earth System Science Approaches 2020) Download PDF Abstract This paper reviews and analyses a decarbonization policy called the Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs) system developed by David Fleming. The TEQs system involves rationing […]

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We Can’t Grow Our Way Out of Poverty

July 8, 2020

WE CAN’T GROW OUR WAY OUT OF POVERTY For more than half a century, economists and policymakers have focused fanatically on growth as the only feasible way to end global poverty and improve people’s lives. But in an era of planet-wide ecological breakdown, that comfortable conventional wisdom is crashing to an end. Jason Hickel lays it on […]

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What’s Your Carbon Budget? You Probably Don’t Want to Know

April 20, 2019

What’s Your Carbon Budget? You Probably Don’t Want to Know But if politicians ran governments on them, the planet might have a fighting chance. Conservative politicians are happily fighting carbon taxes and generally ignoring the issue of global warming. At the same time, an uneasy feeling is rippling through the climate-science community these days.  After […]

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