Capturing carbon: how should we do it?
We asked Dan Ward, our resident systems thinking enthusiast, to explore how carbon markets might work, and how we might prevent the unintended consequences that mar the current iterations.
Negative Externalities: It’s time to change our viewpoint (Part II)
Negative externalities are mostly viewed as a macro-economic issue, but their poison percolates the entire economic system, including at micro-economic level, sending the wrong incentives to business executives and consumers. Olivier Boutellis argues that they are a fundamental flaw we have to fix now.
Negative externalities - It’s time to Change our Viewpoint (Part I)
Markets have been a fantastic driver of wealth and wellbeing... but for the small problem of negative externalities. Scientists worry that negative externalities threaten life on earth - yet we have not resolved the problem. In the first of a two part series, Olivier Boutellis asks why a hundred years of debate on externalities has not changed anything.