Opinion
Nature-based climate credits a path forward for cap-and-trade
OPINION – There’s an innovative solution that should be on the mind of every lawmaker as they consider what’s next for cap-and-trade: Nature-Based Climate Credits.
OPINION – There’s an innovative solution that should be on the mind of every lawmaker as they consider what’s next for cap-and-trade: Nature-Based Climate Credits.
OPINION – Without swift action to reauthorize the cap-and-trade program and implement updates to align with the state’s climate targets, one of California’s cornerstone environmental policies could unravel due to lack of market confidence.
OPINION – The Verified Emissions Reduction Association, or VERA, is a coalition of members with vast experience in achieving real, quantifiable, permanent, enforceable and addition emissions reductions in a cost-effective manner.
OPINION – As a climate scientist, I believe that the extension of cap-and-trade through 2045, including the continued use of offsets, is simply good policy.
OPINION – As state lawmakers begin discussing a reauthorization of the state’s landmark Cap & Trade program, a new coalition of labor, business, local government and transportation leaders is pushing to ensure climate-safe infrastructure is given top priority.
OPINION – Cap-and-trade extension discussions are heating up in the Legislature, with Governor Newsom proposing to extend the program out to 2045 in the May Revision to the state budget.
OPINION – California’s Cap and Trade Program is supposed to be one of the best tools the state has for reducing climate pollution and funding climate solutions. But if Big Oil gets its way, the program will amount to a massive handout to corporate polluters funded by California taxpayers.
OPINION – As the legislature begins deliberations on cap-and-trade reauthorization, two questions are paramount: Has the cap-and-trade program accomplished its initial goals, and what should be its goals going forward?
OPINION – It has long been an open secret that Cap-and-Trade, California’s so-called “landmark climate policy,” is failing to drive significant pollution reductions more than a decade after it was launched. Under the current framework, industrial polluters in our state have grown accustomed to getting special treatment and emissions in some sectors are up.
Longtime Clean Air activist Bill Magavern joins us to chat, and brings some welcome good news: with the COVID-19 pandemic keeping people out of their cars, many areas of California have seen a decrease in air pollution.