Carbon dioxide emissions associated with burning coal are the greatest of any fossil fuel, and coal has the highest
carbon content among all unburned fossil fuel reserves.
Our blog will highlight stories and media
content on a wide range of
carbon removal approaches, spanning the energy, agriculture, forestry, mining, and manufacturing industries (
among many others).
In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity
among economists that
carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the
carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce
carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»