Energy and the Common Purpose: Descending the Energy Staircase with Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs)

Fleming, David

 
9780955084911: Energy and the Common Purpose: Descending the Energy Staircase with Tradable Energy Quotas (TEQs)
ISBN 10: 0955084911 ISBN 13: 9780955084911
Casa editrice: The Lean Economy Connection, 2005

Sinossi

Most public discussion on environment policy at present turns on the problems of climate change and the depletion of oil and gas. The science and politics is widely understood. Commitments to reduce the demand for energy are now being made by nations, organisations and individuals round the world. What is missing is a clear frame of reference for how to achieve it. TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas) is a system to enable all energy-users within each nation to achieve the energy descent, reducing their greenhouse gas emission along with their demand for fossil fuels of all kinds. It guarantees fair and equal access for all individuals at a time of energy scarcity. Here is the 'Lean Guide' to TEQs, explaining simply and clearly how they work, and what it would be like to live with a TEQs scheme, with its phased reductions in energy use. Energy and the Common Purpose is clear, lean and practical.

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Recensione

David Fleming has produced a radical but very workable idea which will get us beyond the failed voluntary approach to tackling carbon emissions. His first, visionary concept has now been widely developed and is becoming a standard reference against which other ideas - such as more carbon taxes - will be judged and found wanting. --Colin Challen MP, Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Climate Change Group

It's a simpler and fairer approach than either green taxation or the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, and it also provides people with a powerful incentive to demand low-carbon technologies. --George Monbiot, journalist and author of Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning

Perhaps David Fleming really has found the leverage point that can transform the global economy from an all-consuming monster to an ecologically viable presence on the planet. We had better try it before time runs out. --Dr. Stephan Harding, writing in The Ecologist Magazine

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Editore
The Lean Economy Connection
Data di pubblicazione
2005
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0955084911
ISBN 13 
9780955084911
Rilegatura
Opuscolo
Numero di pagine
44
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