Mike Sandler: Cap and Trade Is So 2009: Time for an Alternative?
As recently as May 2009, cap and trade was the preferred policy solution for the Kyoto Protocol, federal legislation in Congress, regions, and states. But in mid-2011, the market-based policy doesn't seem to have many friends anymore.Mike Sandler
Internationally, the 1997 Kyoto Protocol (whose major outcome was the first cap and trade program for carbon, the European Trading System) will likely expire with nothing to replace it.
...Looks like some people would rather condemn millions of species to extinction and increase the chance of extreme weather events flattening their Midwest and Southern states (others too, but those are the ones that have made the headlines recently) than admit that Al Gore might have been right.
Mike Sandler is co-founder of the Climate Protection Campaign based in Sonoma County, California, and he has worked with cities, water agencies, air quality districts, and the faith community to create and implement actions to address climate change. Mike has helped develop several local government sustainability programs, and is a former Planning Commissioner for the City of Sebastopol. For several years, Mike has been researching the public trust aspects of carbon market mechanisms considered in California's Global Warming Solutions Act. He has a degree in Political Economy from UC Berkeley, and is a candidate for a Master's degree in Urban Planning at UCLA.
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