Re:Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading
by rcMgD2BwE72F on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:23PM
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There are hundreds of news articles about the COP 25 and somehow we chose the Financial Times as the article we should comment on. That says a lot about our bewilderment (cf. their self-serving focus on carbon trading).
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Re:Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading
by iudqnolq on Sunday December 15, 2019 @12:32PM
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What does it say to you?
What it says to me: I know that climate change is an extremely serious problem we need to solve and I believe economics is the right place to look for the tools we'll need to incentive people to do better.
Re:Climate talks break up with no agreement on carbon trading
by Joeri on Sunday December 15, 2019 @02:00PM
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Economics has already given us the solution long ago. Climate is an externality. You solve problems with externalities by pricing them into goods and services. That was clear for climate change back in the 90’s. Everything since then has not been in the realm of economics but of politics. If the climate change problem will be solved, the solution will have to be political.