When carbon emissions are capped, who gets the emission rights?
Carbon Share provides income from carbon emissions rights to people.

To help address climate change, governments may limit the number of greenhouse gas emission permits under a cap. This gives value to the permits. Who gets that value? To answer this fairly, the market must be designed correctly. This website describes how a market could be designed to provide the right price signals to reduce greenhouse gases, while recycling revenue to people.

Carbon Share:

· Reduces carbon emissions statewide
· Creates a genuine market for carbon emission permits
· Pays cash to every state resident
· Makes polluters pay for their pollution

What is Carbon Share?

What's New:

The California Air Resources Board is considering how to include market mechanisms in the AB32 Scoping Plan. The Draft Scoping Plan is now available. Does it look at upstream, auctioning, and compensating consumers? Public comment is open until August. Next hearing July 8, 2008 in Diamond Bar, CA, stay tuned!

Nationally, Congress is beginning to discuss capping national greenhouse emissions.
The Western Climate Initiative is discussing a regional cap and trade market for Western States.

Background: In June 2007, the California: AB32 Market Advisory Committee issued their final report.

New booklet: Citizen's Guide to Carbon Capping by Peter Barnes, with research by Mike Sandler. This 22-page guide describes three different ways to cap carbon: cap-and-giveaway, cap-and-auction, and cap-and-dividend. Here's a new flier about Cap and Dividend (pdf).
More information at CapandDividend.org.

Or for a shorter attention span, try this: Climate Solutions: The Children's Book Version (pdf)
Past event: June 22, 2007: How to Spend the Money?

 
Carbon Share works alongside the Climate Protection Campaign.
For more information, contact Mike Sandler (707) 529-4620
email mike [at] carbonshare.org.