Remembering ‘Green’ Enron (Part I: The Kyoto Moment)
[Ed. note: This week marks the 10th anniversary of Enron's bankruptcy filing (December 2, 2001). Enron's view of energy sustainability drives the Obama Administration's "green 'dream' team" today, so...
View Article‘Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto’ (AEI: 2003) Revisited
Reconstructing Climate Policy: Beyond Kyoto By Richard B. Stewart and Jonathan B. Wiener 193 pp., Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute Press, 2003. This review was published in Regulation...
View ArticleAs the Kyoto Protocol Dies, Remember Those Who Called It (Part I)
“It’s the weakest text I have ever seen. It’s a travesty of the process and commitments. It can be summed up in two words: We’ll talk.” - Farukh Khan, Pakistan lead negotiator, quoted in Lisa Friedman,...
View ArticleAs the Kyoto Protocol Dies, Remember Those Who Called It (Part II)
Yesterday’s post presented a series of quotations on why a global agreement to ration the most utilitarian of energies–oil, gas, and coal–was doomed to failure. Today, Part II provides a series of...
View ArticleParis Hype: Remember Kyoto (“this agreement will be good for Enron stock!!”)
“If implemented, this agreement will do more to promote Enron’s business than will almost any other regulatory initiative outside of restructuring of the energy and natural gas industries in Europe and...
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