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Reports and discussion papers

 

Major reports

SDC Breakthroughs report

Breakthroughs for the 21st Century

The UK Sustainable Development Commission's report featuring Cap & Share as one of its 'Breakthgouth Ideas'

Feasta booklet

Feasta book on Cap & Share

The Feasta publication (32 pages) explaining Cap & Share as a global system.

AEA report

AEA report on Cap & Share in Ireland

Report commissioned by Comhar on Cap & Share for Ireland.

CE Report

Cambridge Econometrics report on Cap & Share in Ireland

Report commissioned by Comhar on Cap & Share for Ireland.

Comhar report

Comhar synthesis report on Cap & Share in Ireland

Report by Comhar summarising the work by AEA and CE on Cap & Share for Ireland.

 

The first two reports commissioned by Feasta looking at the economic implcations of a global Cap & Share system for major countries:

  Report on C&S for South Africa

  Report on C&S for India

 

Parliamentary submissions

 

Submission to the Environmental Audit Committee of the UK House of Commons, for the EAC's Inquiry into Personal Carbon Trading and Personal Carbon Allowances.

  C&S submission to the EAC's PCT Inquiry

 

Three papers from Feasta

Emissions giveaway paper

The Great Emissions Rights Giveaway, March 2007

The EU's emissions trading system should be scrapped in its present form and replaced with a much fairer, less distorting system, according to a briefing paper from Feasta's Climate and Energy working group.

Emissions rationing paper

Emissions Rationing and the Oil Price Crisis, March 2007

This document examines a way in which the poor in many countries could be protected if, as oil and gas get scarcer, their cost goes higher and higher over the years ahead.
(Large file, 9Mb).

Transport paper

Controlling the environmental impact of the transport sector in the European Union, December 2006.

This paper explores how all forms of transport, as they compete with each other, could be treated together under a Cap and Share scheme.

      Short version (4 pages)    Long version (10 pages)

 

Discussion papers by Cap & Share

 

These are short discussion papers (1 - 3 pages each).

  Let's make sure the message is clear and urgent - we're over the emissions limit

  Delivering high carbon prices without crucifying the poor

  Peak fossil fuels - jump now or be pushed later

  Needed: a worldwide popular movement for equity and ecological limits

  Here's how some of the pieces of the jigsaw might fit together

  How do we get people to buy into a rapidly contracting cap?

  Implementing Cap and Share