Tag: carbon

  • China and the Stern Review on Climate

    The New York Review of Books ran a review June 12 of two books on climate change. It contains the following assessment of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. Not having read up on the Stern Review, the work of Lord Stern of Brentford for the U.K. government, I don’t know if…

  • Will Kyoto's Successor Count 'Outsourced Pollution'?

    If a product is consumed in one country, and it is manufactured in another, which country is responsible for the carbon emissions from manufacture? And if one country outsources manufacturing to a country with more lax environmental regulation, who’s responsible for the extra carbon? These will be part of the discussion in Bali when representatives…