On paper, climate policy sounds simple: you put a price on carbon. Either you tax it, or you cap it and let firms trade. In practice, doing that for one of the world’s biggest economies — as the first mover — is anything but simple. This episode looks at 20 years of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): how it started, the challenges, the lessons, and where it’s going next. The ETS is the world’s first major carbon market, and it has helped drive CO₂ emissions in covered sectors down by m...
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On paper, climate policy sounds simple: you put a price on carbon. Either you tax it, or you cap it and let firms trade. In practice, doing that for one of the world’s biggest economies — as the first mover — is anything but simple. This episode looks at 20 years of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): how it started, the challenges, the lessons, and where it’s going next. The ETS is the world’s first major carbon market, and it has helped drive CO₂ emissions in covered sectors down by m...
#4 Dr. Ben Probst - Can We Trust Carbon Offsets? Evidence from 1 Billion Credits
Climate Economics with Arvid Viaene
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#4 Dr. Ben Probst - Can We Trust Carbon Offsets? Evidence from 1 Billion Credits
Carbon credit offsets sound great in theory. But how well do they actually work in practice? In this new episode of my podcast, I talk with Dr. Benedict Probst about one of the largest reviews ever done on the effectiveness of carbon credit offsets, which covers over 1 billion credits across dozens of studies. We discuss what his research says, why less than 16% of credits were found to be effective, and what this means for future climate policy, especially as the EU considers offsets in its ...
Climate Economics with Arvid Viaene
On paper, climate policy sounds simple: you put a price on carbon. Either you tax it, or you cap it and let firms trade. In practice, doing that for one of the world’s biggest economies — as the first mover — is anything but simple. This episode looks at 20 years of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): how it started, the challenges, the lessons, and where it’s going next. The ETS is the world’s first major carbon market, and it has helped drive CO₂ emissions in covered sectors down by m...
