The Key to Carbon Pricing: With a proper carbon- pricing policy, Canada can fight climate change, put its fiscal house in order, and solve its productivity gap.

The UK's new Liberal-Conservative Government is set to advance a consensus on climate initiatives. But how might structural changes in finance affect the delivery of a low carbon economy? (update post-HMT spending announcement)

On Capitol Hill, the ship of state is so bereft of rudder and sail that the crew is jumping overboard. The latest to abandon ship is Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana, who minced no words about the dysfunctional Congress he is choosing to leave.

Forget for a moment about health care and financial reform. On national energy and environmental issues, which have been stalled in the congressional queue, we have a critical national security threat, a danger to public health and welfare, and national policy that encourages American families to inadvertently fund terrorists.

 

In the wake of the Copenhagen conference, climate change could soon be displaced by a different crisis demanding a transition to a low carbon economy.