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With ocean acidification and ocean warming growing concerns for coastal Alaskans and the seafood industry, a new podcast called “The Future Ocean: What Can Carbon Policy Do for the Ocean and Our Fisheries?” explores potential policy solutions to address these issues. Sponsored by the Alaska Ocean Acidification Network, the six podcast episodes use marine scientists, economists, and leaders in Alaska’s clean energy transition to discuss the different policy options, how they work, what the terms mean, and what action is happening regionally and nationally.
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Monday Sep 27, 2021
Monday Sep 27, 2021
In this episode we explore what it means to put a price on carbon emissions as a tool to wring fossil fuels out of the economy and accelerate the emerging transition to renewable energy. Guest economists describe the two methods for pricing carbon emissions: cap and trade systems and a carbon fee or carbon tax approach. They demystify terms used in the policy arena: What are externalities? What’s a market signal? Carbon offset? Emissions allowance? Border carbon adjustment? How can policy-makers address the social cost of carbon emissions to vulnerable communities, or the cost of a carbon price on households? Guests: Marc Hafstead (Resources for the Future), Yoram Bauman (Stand-Up Economist).
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