Dr. Mark Jaccard on why pricing carbon pollution is good public policy

Setting ambitious carbon reduction targets, but not following up with equally ambitious policies, has made for good politics, SFU energy economist and Nobel laureate Dr. Mark Jaccard tells a Vancouver conference on "Building a Green Economy."

But if ecological and economic catastrophe from climate change is to be avoided, politicians must walk their talk. One reality is now unavoidable, Dr. Jaccard says: the only way to effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming is to put a price on carbon. That can be done through a carbon tax, cap-and-trade system, government regulations or a combination of these three policies.

Watch a three-part YouTube video of Dr. Mark Jaccard's keynote address to the Building a Green Economy conference sponsored by PowerUp Canada on April 7, 2009 in Vancouver. Click here to download a PDF (5.5 MB) of Dr. Jaccard's Powerpoint presentation.

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