by Danny Cullenward | Mar 1, 2018 | Reports |
On February 21, the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) held its first auction of greenhouse gas (GHG) allowances featuring Ontario (ON), which formally linked with California (CA) and Québec (QC) in 2018. The auction resulted in carbon prices near the price floor, with...
by Danny Cullenward | Mar 1, 2018 | Reports |
Danny Cullenward submitted a comment to the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) on the Second Revised Draft Final Proposal concerning regional greenhouse gas accounting and the Electricity Imbalance Market (EIM). I am very grateful for the attention CAISO...
by Danny Cullenward | Jan 11, 2018 | Reports |
Download full report (pdf) Removing excess cap-and-trade allowances will reduce greenhouse gas emissions Summary of responses to Severin Borenstein and Jim Bushnell Last month, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) identified the cap-and-trade program as the single...
by Danny Cullenward | Nov 10, 2017 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Download data (Excel file) New data show that California’s greenhouse gas emissions covered by the state’s cap-and-trade system declined sharply in 2016, falling 16.4 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMtCO2e) below...
by Danny Cullenward | Oct 2, 2017 | Reports |
On October 2, 2017, the Near Zero team—Michael Mastrandrea, Mason Inman, and Danny Cullenward—presented at Stanford’s Energy Seminar, showing results from a retrospective study in-progress. The full video of the talk is below. As California prepares its strategy...
by Danny Cullenward | May 25, 2017 | Blog |
editor’s note: For more on SB 775, a major new California climate bill that Danny Cullenward advised the California Senate on, see an in-depth article by David Roberts for Vox, “California is about to revolutionize climate policy … again.” As the...
by Danny Cullenward | Apr 10, 2017 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) California’s prospects for meeting mandated targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, as described in the Scoping Plan Update issued by the state’s Air Resources Board (ARB), face major sources of uncertainty and risk. This...
by Danny Cullenward | Apr 3, 2017 | Blog |
Near Zero’s Danny Cullenward gave a joint presentation with Stanford Law School Michael Wara on April 3 at the Stanford Energy Seminar. A video of the full talk is below, following the abstract. Talk abstract: In 2016, as California began its second decade of...
by Danny Cullenward | Jan 10, 2017 | Blog |
Michael Wara and I have a new essay at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists on the need for new climate legislation to price carbon in California. A recent bill, SB 32, set a deep climate mitigation target for 2030, but left unresolved the question of how to reach...
by Danny Cullenward | Dec 16, 2016 | Reports |
Download report (pdf) Michael Wara and Danny Cullenward submitted a letter to CARB to comment on technical inadequacies, unbalanced evaluation of carbon taxes, and other shortcomings in the 2030 Scoping Plan Discussion Draft, highlighting six issues: • Analysis of...