Climate Action? Warsaw 2013 to Paris 2015
The Warsaw ‘COP-19’ climate negotiations were a widely acknowledged failure. But Assaad Razzouk sees a small...
Blog Archives: 2013
On climate, we need a global carbon market with its own ‘federal reserve’
On climate, we need a global carbon market with its own ‘federal reserve’ by Assaad Razzouk Predictably, the November round of UN climate talks generated nothing but hot air an...
Message to Regulators: Emissions Trading Schemes Can Do Wonders Provided They Have a Strong and Rising Forward Price Curve
By Gareth Brydon Phillips There is a general perception that the purpose of emission trading schemes is to reduce GHG emissions as cheaply as possible. This is not quite correct. I...
Why we should kill the Green Climate Fund
It’s not more climate organisations we need. It’s more effective ones by Assaad Razzouk Some three hundred government officials, representatives of think thanks, civil ...
The Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation – “has been” climate mechanisms or foundations of the fight against climate change?
By Gareth Phillips The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) must feel like unloved offspring of the Kyoto Protocol, once billed as a significant part of ...
Technical Brief: Kick-Starting the Clean Development Mechanism, Part 2
Extend the concept of supplementarity such that both the use and the generation of emission reductions are supplemental to domestic action By Gareth Brydon Phillips In an article d...
Three days in Bonn, Doing Not Much
By Gareth Brydon Phillips Representatives of the countries that have signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change spent three days in Bonn last week, attendin...
First authoritative survey of price forecasts builds confidence in China’s carbon markets (Chinese version)
为中国新兴碳市场构筑信心 辛迪克公司David Creedy博士，张敏博士 中国碳论坛-澳大利亚国立大学昨天联合发布了一份调查报告，称至2016...
Climate Action: A consensus of the sensible can beat polluters’ PR
Six steps the world should take to fight climate change by Assaad W. Razzouk Last month, the most thorough scientific review of climate science in history was released by the Int...
First authoritative survey of price forecasts builds confidence in China’s carbon markets (Chinese version)
为中国新兴碳市场构筑信心 辛迪克公司David Creedy博士，张敏博士 中国碳论坛-澳大利亚国立大学昨天联合发布了一份调查报告，称至2016...
First price forecasts build confidence in China’s emerging carbon market
By Dr David P. Creedy and Dr Zhang Min An authoritative joint China Carbon Forum – Australian National University survey released yesterday indicates an average price by 2016 of ...
Our Climate Needs China and the UN Climate Talks to Deliver – Now
By Dr. David P. Creedy, Managing Director, CMM & VAM, Sindicatum The United States Energy Information Administration’s International Energy Outlook 2013 makes grim reading: ...
Sound economics, naturally.
by Assaad W. Razzouk The economic performance of nations and of corporations is judged by imperfect markets without any regard to their usage of our collective natural capital. As ...
A frosty G20 puts global warming on ice.
The summit in Russia may herald the end of the stubborn global climate policy recession by Assaad W. Razzouk It took the frostiest international summit in years to take some heat o...
Fracking: American dream, Chinese pipe-dream, global nightmare
Energy policy should instead focus on renewables by Assaad W. Razzouk Across Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia, fracking wells periodically burst out of the green scenery , li...
Aviation and shipping emissions: A climate nightmare which must be tackled
by Assaad W. Razzouk and Gareth Phillips The international aviation and shipping sectors are core to the world’s global trade, leisure and commerce sectors. Transportation has ...
Asia set to roast the planet
We need leadership from China, Indonesia, India and the Philippines by Assaad W. Razzouk Last week, President Barack Obama gave a potentially transformational speech on climate cha...
Kick-starting the Clean Development Mechanism to resume investments
Introduce a “Net Mitigation Benefit Fee” to clean energy investments in developing countries. by Assaad Razzouk and Gareth Phillips The global carbon markets are awash with all...
Namaste, NAMAs – some hope for tackling climate change
by Assaad W.Razzouk The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere surpassed a level we think we haven’t seen for three million years and catastrophic consequences are sure to ...
The Full Math Around Outsourcing
When a job is outsourced oversees, demand on water and energy resources goes with it. Often forgotten is that one country’s job loss could also represent a big natural capita...
The private sector could help tackle climate change. What a pity it’s left out in the cold
A functioning carbon market is vital to reducing emissions. But ours is broken. by Assaad W. Razzouk In a stark reminder of our failure to bring man-made greenhouse gases under c...
The carbon markets are dead, long live the carbon markets
Political inertia and empty rhetoric are diluting and undermining the efforts of market based mechanisms to tackle climate change. by Assaad W. Razzouk and Gareth Phillips Today,...
It’s time to offset the UN’s carbon footprint
The UN created the world’s most effective offset mechanism but astonishingly fails to use it for its own carbon emissions. This has to change by Assaad W. Razzouk The United N...