COP 15 Week in Review
As the first week came to a close at Copenhagen’s Bella Center, I took a moment to record a few impressions on the grueling COP process and an overview of …
Read MoreClimate-gate and Sarah Palin?
You know that the times are getting a little weird when Sarah Palin starts talking about historical reconstructions using proxy data of average global surface temperature (see her recent opinion …
Read MoreThis week’s guest blogger – Don Bain
Please join me in welcoming one of our alumni and members as guest blogger this week for Inside the Institute. Don Bain is a highly successful management consultant, software expert and …
Read MoreUpdate from COP15 – What a ‘Whirlwind’
To say my first two days at COP15 in Copenhagen have been a whirlwind, would not only be a tired cliché, but would also horrendously underestimate the speed at which …
Read MorePoorly informed critiques
A group of climate activists have just produced an entertaining animated short called “The Story of Cap & Trade.” Although the film is correct to worry about market manipulation and …
Read MoreGHG Accounting: Rocket science without the calculus
In an interview the other week I made the lazy mistake of oversimplifying GHG measurement with a tired colloquialism. While this may read as a statement of regret, I’m actually …
Read MoreSaying Goodbye to the Copenhagen Protocol
Those of us constantly sniffing the political winds during the numerous negotiations leading up to this December’s Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Copenhagen have known for some time that …
Read MoreWhat do we think of the Clean Development Mechanism?
The GHG Management Institute is a founding member of the Offset Quality Initiative. OQI is a consensus-based effort that brings together the collective expertise of its six nonprofit member organizations: …
Read MoreHot, Cold, Warm: The ever-changing role of North America’s regional cap-and-trade programs
Interest in North America’s trilogy of regional cap-and-trade schemes has seesawed since a group of northeastern US states first came together in the early half of this decade to put up a united and ambitious climate policy front in the face of federal inaction.
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