Carbon Pricing Gains Support but Strings Attached
View on Agri-Pulse website"Resources for the Future Senior Fellow Raymond Kopp, co-director of the Washington think tank's Center for Energy and Climate Economics, tackled the controversial issue in an RFF forum last week. He said interest in carbon pricing is increasing whether through implementing a cap-and-trade allowances program to cap greenhouse gas emissions or through 'a straightforward fee or carbon tax mechanism.'
Kopp pointed out that 'even in the polarized U.S.,' interest in federal carbon taxes is growing among Democrats and Republicans, and among progressives and conservatives. 'Carbon pricing has already taken root in Canada and Mexico and, at least at the state level in the U.S., there are carbon pricing programs that are up and running.'"
