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Sustainable Energy Seminar: Making Polluters Pay? Political lessons for Successful carbon pricing
November 1, 2018 at 5:45 PM to 7:30 PM
| Location: | 2017 Dunton Tower |
| Cost: | Free |
Despite being favoured by many experts, policies putting a price on pollution face substantial political challenges. This talk reviews those challenges, as well as how successful and long-running efforts to put a price on carbon emissions associated with global warming in the United States offer important lessons for overcoming those obstacles in other political contexts, including Canada.
Leigh Raymond is Professor of Political Science at Purdue University and the Fulbright Canada Chair in the Sustainable Economy at the University of Ottawa for fall 2018. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management from U.C. Berkeley, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Yale University. Dr. Raymond’s research focuses on “market-based” environmental policies, including emissions trading policies to address climate change.
5:45 – 6:00 Meet the Speaker
6:00 – 6:45 Presentation
6:45 – 7:30 Q&A