Learn about Pricing Carbon before the conference...

News Media: Read the conference press release and the 11/14 media alert.

We will be presenting and offering the Wesleyan Statement of Carbon Pricing Principles for sign-on at the Conference. The Wesleyan Statement articulates three basic principles of effective, fair and responsive carbon pricing. The National Academy of Sciences has repeatedly pointed to an economy-wide carbon pricing system as the most important policy for reducing emissions.

Tax Bad Things Like Pollution
Reward Good Things Like Work!

A price on carbon would be the quickest and most effective way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create incentives for renewable energy and efficiency, and generate green jobs. Fees could be returned to citizens as payroll tax relief or as dividends to promote economic equity.

Video from Effective Climate Policy with Direct Carbon Pricing Senate Briefing
Washington, D.C. / July 2009

Carbon Tax vs. Cap and Trade

Video from a presentation by CTC Director Charles Komanoff at the Nature Network
New York City / January 2009

A Conversation with James Hansen

Dr. James Hansen is considered by many to be the foremost climatologist in the world. From his New York City office, he spoke with Climate Crisis Coalition Coordinator Tom Stokes, on May 10, 2008, about the science of climate change, the urgency of enacting effective climate legislation and why he is speaking out about it.

Dr. Hansen believes that we should enact a carbon tax with the revenue recycled back to the people, rather than a cap-and-trade system.