The chapter explores the integration of a global carbon reward as an incentive in addition to penalties like carbon taxes to enhance human cooperation on climate change. It discusses the potential impact of this policy on individuals, communities, corporations, and governments, emphasizing the need for a transition to renewable energy sources. The speaker highlights the importance of prioritizing conventional mitigation strategies and the advancement of carbon dioxide removal technologies through a guaranteed reward system to address the current climate crisis effectively.
Can the market do the right thing?
Not without supportive policy. Market-based solutions do not have a good track record when it comes to climate, stuck as they are within an exploitative economic framework. But, equally, we cannot just do away with markets, which have existed for millennia in many different forms. They need revolutionised, not abandoned.
Civil engineer and geo-hydrologist Delton Chen joins me to discuss the Global Carbon Reward, a policy for managing climate-related risk. Described as a “carrot policy”, Delton says the GCR incentivises polluting industries to reduce their emissions whilst encouraging the private market to invest in research and development of mitigation technologies. This conversation is filled with nuance, technicality, analysis and discussion on the viability of market-based solutions in a market that drives perverse incentives.
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