Category Archives: Climate Change

On December 6, 2009, expect Obama to announce that the US, Japan, South Korea and China have agreed to announce national GHG targets before the summer of 2012 and to implement common domestic "cap and trade" systems. (None of the national targets will be legally binding, but the national leaders will downplay that reality.)

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In my first response, I focused on the relevance of Dr. Jaccard’s plan and costing model from a rather theoretical perspective.  In this message, I try to take the debate to the ground.

Dr. Jaccard’s model puts his compliance cost and GDP estimates in a very general setting. One question I asked myself was: which Canadian communities will be most impacted, and how much?

Remember, you can only reduce GHG emissions where they physically occur.
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Denmark’s economic recovery—from the financial crisis that hit Scandinavia in 1990—over the last 2 decades is anything but a transition to a green economy. "Experts" who remark only on Danish green technology exports are failing to tell the whole story.

It is true that Denmark consumes less imported coal than it did in 1990 (Denmark has no domestic coal reserves). But 50% of Danish electricity, steam and heat supply still derives from the combustion of imported coal.

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