State-owned energy companies are among the world’s most polluting – putting a price on carbon could help

Governments that publicly commit to carbon pricing are compelled to get their own house in order.

Gerhard Schnyder, Professor of International Management & Political Economy, Loughborough University • conversation
Feb. 16, 2024 ~7 min

From the Paris agreement to COP28, how oil and gas giants try to influence the global climate agenda

Many oil and gas companies support a tax on carbon, even though they are significant emitters.

Alain Naef, Assistant professor, ESSEC • conversation
Dec. 8, 2023 ~7 min


A carbon tax on investment income could be more fair and make it less profitable to pollute – a new analysis shows why

Taxing consumption that contributes to climate change hits the poor the hardest, while overlooking the huge profits tied to greenhouse gas emissions.

Jared Starr, Sustainability Scientist, UMass Amherst • conversation
Aug. 17, 2023 ~8 min

A carbon tax on investment income could be more fair and quickly make it less profitable to pollute − here's why

Taxing consumption that contributes to climate change hits the poor the hardest, while overlooking the huge profits tied to greenhouse gas emissions.

Jared Starr, Sustainability Scientist, UMass Amherst • conversation
Aug. 17, 2023 ~8 min

Climate change: the fairest way to tax carbon is to make air travel more expensive

Carbon taxes targeting luxury emissions are more popular than those which make necessities more expensive.

Giulio Mattioli, Research Fellow, Department of Transport Planning, Technical University of Dortmund • conversation
Oct. 6, 2022 ~6 min

What if carbon border taxes applied to all carbon – fossil fuels, too?

A new study shows what it would mean for Europe and China, and why the US might not be too excited about the idea.

Mark Finley, Fellow in Energy and Global Oil, Baker Institute for Public Policy, Rice University • conversation
Sept. 21, 2022 ~6 min

BECCS: the carbon capture technology the UK is relying on to reach net zero

The UK’s largest wood-burning power plant is to trial bioenergy with carbon capture and storage – but will it do enough to cut emissions?

Raffaella Ocone, Chair of Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University • conversation
May 17, 2022 ~7 min

Why the cost of mitigating climate change can't be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists' best attempts

Human behaviors shift. Policies change. New technology arrives and evolves. All those changes and more are hard to predict, and they affect tomorrow’s costs.

Matthew E. Kahn, Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences • conversation
Feb. 22, 2022 ~8 min


6 priorities could deliver energy breakthroughs at the Glasgow climate summit – there's progress on some already

Clean energy innovation, giving up coal, cutting methane and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.

Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines • conversation
Nov. 2, 2021 ~10 min

6 priorities could deliver energy breakthroughs at the Glasgow climate summit – there's progress on some of them already

Clean energy innovation, methane cuts and getting China and India on board for net-zero can deliver progress at COP26.

Morgan Bazilian, Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines • conversation
Nov. 2, 2021 ~10 min

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