Midterm Review Flashcards
Name 3 elements of a decarbonization pledge:
- Target
- Year
- Scope
What are the 3 key design questions to Carbon Taxes?
- How high should the tax be set, and how quickly will it increase?
- Where should the tax be levied?
- What should be done with the tax revenue?
What are the 4 key design questions to Cap & Trade?
- How low should the cap be set, and how quickly should it tighten?
- Who are the players? (What industries does it effect?)
- How are permits allocated? (Free at first, then auction)
- Should offsets be included?
What is Green Industrial Policy?
Government policies that attempt to accelerate the growth and development of green industries.
What is the tri-lemma of human made carbon sinks?
- Is it scalable?
- Is it low cost?
- Does it have “acceptable impacts?”
(No current sink meets all 3!!)
What are 3 pitfalls of tree planting?
- Where is the water coming from?
- Who is planting the trees?
- What kind of tree? Is it native?
- Are we planting different kinds of trees to promote forest health and avoid monoculture?
What are 3 justice challenges in the transition to green energy?
- How are lithium and other minerals being sourced? Is it in a way that exploits labor?
- Are communities of low-socioeconomic status being harmed by new green technologies?
- Which workers in the US economy are losing their jobs? How can we transition them to be working in new green fields?
What are the 8 principles of a just transition?
- Asserts the right to clean, healthy, and adequate air, water, land, food, education, and shelter
- Creates opportunities for meaningful work
- Asserts the right to participate in decisions that impact their lives
- Works against and transforms current and historical inequities based on race, class, gender, immigrant status and other forms of oppression
- Advances ecological resilience, reduces resource consumption, restores biodiversity and traditional ways of life, undermines extractive economies (including capitalism) that erode the ecological basis of our collective well-being
- Creates inclusionary spaces for all traditions and cultures, recognizing them as integral to a healthy and vibrant economy
- Builds on the interconnectedness of our communities
- Starts now
Define SRM and give 3 examples of SRM technologies:
SRM stands for Solar Radiation Modification and 3 potential technologies are: Stratospheric aerosol injections, the ocean mirror effect, and high albedo buildings/crops.
Define LULUCF:
LULUCF stands for Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry and includes solutions like planting trees.
Define “Nature-based” solutions:
“Nature-based” solutions are ways of managing ecosystems that enhance carbon storage.
Define CCUS:
CCUS stands for Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage and includes methods of capturing carbon (usually at production sites) to be stored underground
Define BECCS:
BECCS stands for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage and includes solutions that put carbon capture into biofuel products. Ex. Drax in the UK
Define DAC/DACCS:
DAC stands for direct air capture and includes technologies that pull air through varying machines to bond with other molecules and remove them from the atmosphere. This method is usually very expensive and inefficient.
What are the 4 elements of climate justice?
Distributional Justice, Procedural Justice, Intergenerational Justice, and Recognition
