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Dr Terry Barker Chairman and Consultant MA (Edin), MA (Cantab), PhD (Cantab)
Presenting at this conference: First Global Conference on Global Warming, Istanbul, 6-10 July 2008 Terry Barker gave the first Keynote speech to the First Global Conference on Global Warming held in Istanbul, July 6 to 10, 2008. His talk was on "Global and Sectoral Mitigation Potentials to 2030 and the Carbon Price: towards decarbonising the global economy. The Conference was opened by Prof. Veysel Eroglu, Minister of Environment and Forestry and Dr. Kadir Topbas, Mayor of Istanbul and was attended by several hundred participants from many countries. A new journal, the International Journal on Global Warming, is being launched with a multidisciplinary approach, and an emphasis of the engineering aspects of climate policy.
First International Scientific and Business
Congress on Protecting the Climate - A World Joint Strategy - City
Hall, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, April 22 - 23, 2008 Presentation
2 - Reforming the Global Financial System to Support Decarbonisation
The Tyndall Centre has published a Briefing Note in which Terry Barker reviews how economies can speedily reduce their emissions without excessive cost and damages to government, business and household finances. The most effective policies appear to combine the carbon market's price, environmental tax reform for small energy sources, and emission trading schemes for large sources of greenhouse gases, with direct incentives for low-carbon innovation and research and development funded from tax revenues and emission permit auctions. Such portfolios of market-based instruments can be made even more effective if complemented by technological forcing through standards, such as a requirement for carbon capture and storage by a specified date on all new coal plant. For further information: http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/publications/briefing_notes/bn25.pdf
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