Published on Sep 5, 2016

Trending Story - Social Cost of Carbon V143 

Trending Story, an email by Climate Change Risk expert Dr. Mark Trexler is available through subscription. In this issue he addresses the social cost of carbon. It is an introduction to the Social Cost of Carbon as an environmental issue, and an explanation of how to explore it further in the Climate Web. To jump to that point in the Climate Web referenced in this story please use this link.

CNBC - 09.12.2009 - Interview with Tom Knutzen CEO of Danisco, a Denmark company that develops and produces food ingredients, enzymes, and bio-based solutions. He discusses opportunities to invest in technology solutions with solid businss plans and with support from politicians in terms of time horizons and even a carbon tax. All part of the need to combat climate change. Briefly discusses need for support of their natural product designed to replace the rubber coming out of rain forests and from fossil fuel. Not sure it can be cost-competitive, a tax on carbon would make it easier. 

Then President-elect Barack Obama in a speech (video) to the Global Climate Summit, November 18-19, 2008 Beverly Hills, California, promising "a new chapter of American leadership on climate change."

See also, Climate Change Talks, President Obama, 2009, here.  He speaks on Climate Change, 2013, here. President on Carbon Pollution and Power Plants here, May 2014.