"Protests and purchasing power could be positive tipping points in climate change"

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Date

April 15, 2019

News Type

Media Highlight

Source

Cosmos Magazine

"Marc Hafstead, an economist at Resources for the Future in Washington, DC, and director of its Carbon Pricing Initiative, who was not part of the study team, agrees with the 'tipping point' concept.

"'Even with the Paris Agreement,' he says, 'we are falling short. I think it’s good to ask how we can tip the system to try to get more change and get on track to where we need to be.'

"That said, he cautions against focusing too strongly on trying to tip the scales on individual alternative-energy technologies.

"'The technologies we pick today might not be the technologies for 10 years from now,' he warns."

Topics

Carbon Pricing

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Marc Hafstead

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Marc Hafstead is an RFF fellow and director of the Carbon Pricing Initiative and the Climate Finance and Financial Risk Initiative.

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