Richard N. Cooper of Harvard appears to have been the first to call for global carbon pricing. He was calling for an internationally uniform carbon tax as early as 1999 and as late as 2006, but in October 2008 he published “The Case for Charges on Greenhouse Gas Emissions.” This paper advocates essential the system presented here but without the ability to trade carbon revenue credits and without the Green Fund.
Global Carbon Pricing Explained
(books and papers)
“Pricing Is a Better Climate Commitment,” Cramton & Stoft, Dec. 2009, 4 pp. (economist’s op-ed) abstract +PDF.
“Global Carbon Pricing: A Better Climate Commitment,” Cramton & Stoft, Dec. 2009, 20 pp. (easy journal article) abstract +PDF.
Beyond Kyoto: Flexible Global Carbon Pricing for Global Cooperation, Stoft, Oct. 2009, 80 pp. (general audience e-book) abstract +PDF.
“Flexible Global Carbon Pricing: A Backward-Compatible Upgrade for the Kyoto Protocol,” Stoft, July 2009, 25 pp. (article + technical appendix) abstract +PDF.
Carbonomics, Stoft, Dec. 2008, 250 pp. (general audience book) PDF, Amazon.
“The Case for Charges on Greenhouse Gases,” Cooper, October 2008, 30 pp. (article) abstract +PDF.
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