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Understanding the cap and share ‘commons’ approach to energy expenditure

Michel Bauwens

14th December 2010

This five minute, funny rendering of the cap and share proposals, makes it very easy to understand its logic:

This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 14th, 2010 at 4:13 am and is filed under Ethical Economy, P2P Ecology, P2P Economics, P2P Energy, Video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Understanding the cap and share ‘commons’ approach to energy expenditure”

1. dennis Says:
   December 19th, 2010 at 6:03 pm

   A similar idea is “fee-and-dividend,” advocated by James Hansen and various economists. Charge fees to the fossil-fuel companies, and distribute the fees to citizens, equal amount per person. This would probably be a little simpler to implement, but have a similar effect; citizens with below-average emissions would profit. The idea is described in great detail by Steven Stoft in his book Carbonomics.

   Stoft and Hansen (in Storms of My Grandchildren) both identify a lot of problems with caps. For example, what cap should a developing nation have? If it’s low, they’re stuck being poor. If they’re allowed to increase, then either they’re uncontrolled, or (as with Kyoto) you give them credit for not growing as much as they (claim they) otherwise would have. Then other countries can buy those credits, based on often-fictional reductions. It’s a big mess and one reason Kyoto has been ineffective.

   Just setting a price on carbon has the same economic effect, while bypassing a lot of practical difficulties.

2. Michel Bauwens Says:
   December 20th, 2010 at 5:54 am

   Hi Dennis, do you have any links on this proposal?

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