Saturday, April 14, 2012

A new approach to curb emissions: Buy coal in the ground and keep it there

ClimateWire: A Northwestern University economist who has closely followed strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions worldwide has a new recommendation for frustrated climate activists: Buy coal. In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand-side solutions such as...

URL: http://www.eenews.net/public/climatewire/2012/04/13/2

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