Climate Fight Clubs
November 3, 2015
10/30/15 – This year is on track to become the hottest year ever recorded, easily beating out 2014 and possibly signaling a return to a sustained period of rapid global warming. As many observers look to international voluntary limits on carbon emissions that drive atmospheric warming, a leading economist suggests in Issues that groups of countries might better form “climate clubs” that promote reductions by setting uniform prices on emitted carbon and penalizing nonparticipating countries through tariffs on goods they hope to export to member nations.