ICYMI -- "In Case You Missed It" -- is a regular Friday feature recapping the news of the week.
Dear readers: There are weeks when this is the greatest gig in the sustainability business. I get to survey, from a 10,000-foot view, all the amazing ideas and efforts that are helping to get the world to a low-carbon economy -- and sum them up for you. These efforts span the realm of the possible, from policy to technology to sociology to plain old common sense, and while it's often a gloomy view, there are times when it's just inspiring.
This is one of those weeks. Let's dig in!
??Energy policy is complex, especially when you start digging into the competing interests trying to shore up every kind of energy source imaginable, from coal to natural gas to biofuels to wind power. Writing in Ensia, our good friend Marc Gunther has a simple, elegant take on a solution:
Let?s phase out U.S. government subsidies for all energy, and let oil, natural gas, coal, solar, wind, nuclear, geothermal and efficiency compete. Let?s simultaneously enact a carbon tax on greenhouse-gas emissions to remedy a glaring market failure: the fact that the environmental costs of burning fossil fuels are not reflected in their price. With the risks of catastrophic climate change growing, we can no longer allow Earth?s atmosphere to be used as a cost-free dumping ground. A carbon tax is an efficient and effective way to curb those risks.
? We're finally making progress on global climate strategies. This may end up being the best news of the decade: At climate talks in Bonn, Germany, U.S. envoy Todd Stern proposed letting individual countries set their own climate targets and then using peer pressure to drive reductions. The shift would lift the pressure for the increasingly bleak annual COP meetings to come up with a global consensus that would save future generations of humans from a devastated world.
??Helping cities adapt to climate change: The C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group this week unveiled its latest effort to help address the risks from climate change with the announcement of a new risk-assessment framework that will help city leaders accurately gauge and prepare for the climate risks they face in the short- and long-term.
? The U.K.-based supermarket Waitrose will cut its packaging in half by 2016 as part of a series of 12 new sustainability commitments that also include energy-efficiency upgrades to all stores, selling only certified sustainable fish and supporting local farmers.
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