Walt Minnick (MBA 1966) and Bill Eacho (MBA 1979) are pushing an innovative new solution to break the impasse around the carbon emissions behind global warming. Is Congress listening?
CNS: CIA Director Cites ‘Impact of Climate Change’ as Deeper Cause of Global Instability
The Atlantic: The Republican Solution for Climate Change
The idea of a revenue-neutral carbon tax is hardly new. My colleagues Clifford Cobb, Jonathan Rowe, and I wrote about this 20 years ago in an Atlantic cover story. What’s new is that in 2008, the right-of center government in British Columbia introduced such a plan, and sufficient time has now passed to weigh the results. Fossil fuel use in British Columbia has since fallen by 16 percent, as compared to a 3 percent increase in the rest of Canada, and its economy has outperformed the rest of the country. So the benefits of this approach are no longer theoretical.
Washington Post: Greenhouse Gases Hit New Milestone, Fueling Worries About Climate Change
Report: Climate Diplomacy After Paris: Opportunities for U.S. Leadership
Fixing Climate Change May Add No Costs, Report Says
In decades of public debate about global warming, one assumption has been accepted by virtually all factions: that tackling it would necessarily be costly. But a new report casts doubt on that idea, declaring that the necessary fixes could wind up being effectively free.