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...
#6 - From $0 to $190: How U.S. Presidents Price a Ton of CO₂
Climate Economics with Arvid Viaene
17 minutes
2 months ago
#6 - From $0 to $190: How U.S. Presidents Price a Ton of CO₂
Pricing carbon is the backbone of climate cost-benefit analysis in the U.S. If the price is high, stronger environmental rules pay for themselves; if it’s low, they don’t. In this episode, I trace how the social cost of carbon entered federal policy and why the number has shifted between administrations. What we cover From Reagan-era cost-benefit rules to a 2007 court case that rejected “carbon = $0”The Obama team’s Interagency Working Group and a unified SCC built from leading IAMsTrump’s sh...
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...
