Calculating The True Cost Of Carbon….

….whether there should be either carbon taxes or a cap-and-trade system for CO2. We should have both, he says.

Why? Because if we believe the science–and most serious debates are of degree rather than of kind he says–then GHGs need to be paid for by the companies that emit them. If this is to happen then there must be price put on such emissions.

U.S. firms produce from $60 billion to $80 billion worth of carbon annually but don’t pay for it. What the carbon market could mean to investors.

How could big cooperation’s and governments go ahead with many large projects, like spending billions (of tax money) to expand the Vancouver airport which happens to resided below sea-level, with out a proper risk assessment taking in to account climate change risk.

Big business ‘failing to disclose climate risks’ to investors
http://www.guardian.co.uk/ environment/ 2009/ jun/ 03/ business-investors-climate-change-risk
Leading companies are offering only minimal information to shareholders on how global warming might affect their bottom line, research shows