Creating a Clean Energy Revolution: The Arguments For and Against Carbon Taxation

Creating a Clean Energy Revolution: The Arguments For and Against Carbon Taxation

from OilPrice.com Daily News Update by breakthrough@oilprice.com (Breakthrough Institute)

In the debate over climate legislation in 2009 and 2010, it was conventional wisdom that a price on carbon was the sine qua non of effective climate policy. All Very Serious People knew that you could not reduce carbon emissions or drive clean energy innovation without a price on carbon, either through a carbon tax or a cap and trade system.