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Market-based solutions to climate change have failed to deliver
Market-based solutions to climate change have failed to deliver
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Length:
24 minutes
Released:
Dec 21, 2020
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Podcast episode
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Carbon pricing systems have been celebrated as instruments for combatting climate change, but how effective are they really? David Victor, co-chair of the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate, joins David Dollar to explain why market-based solutions for addressing climate change have fallen short of their promise. Victor examines how politics have hampered the effectiveness of market policies in key sectors, like transportation and aviation, and the political barriers the Biden administration will need to overcome in order to make real progress on climate change.
Released:
Dec 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
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