Cali, U.K. bypass Bush with carbon trading scheme
British officials deny the U.K. is side-stepping the Bush Administration by joining forces with California on a carbon trading scheme, but that’s exactly what they are doing. Isn’t it great? The announcement today that the two jurisdictions would work together to tackle climate change “could eventually bring California into the European carbon market,” according to The Independent in the U.K., which goes on to say that “if successful, it could open the way to other U.S. states signing up, circumventing federal opposition from Mr. Bush.”
I think Quebec Premier Jean Charest should get on the phone with Blair right now and strike a similar deal, circumventing the Harper government’s climate change inaction. Hell, Ontario should do the same.
Tyler Hamilton is editor-in-chief of Corporate Knights magazine and a business columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the clean technology and green energy market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper.
