Links – research, articles etc

French campaign website for TEQs http://www.allocation-energie.info/ The website (in French) of campaigners in France working on TEQs, including translations of a number of our documents.

Island trial http://www.scu.edu/au/…/ Australia’s Southern Cross University is leading a project on Norfolk Island, testing the world’s first tradable carbon rationing scheme in a ‘closed system’ island environment, starting in 2011.

APPGOPO report http://www.teqs.net/…/ For links to all the coverage of the 2011 All Party Parliamentary Group report into TEQs, see our media page.

Climate Policy special issue http://www.earthscan.co.uk/…/ Yael Parag and Tina Fawcett edit a special Sept 2010 issue of the Climate Policy journal, looking exclusively at ‘personal carbon trading’, including TEQs and PCAs.

Sharon Astyk on energy rationing http://sharonastyk.com/…/ August 2010 article in which Astyk considers whether energy rationing could be made politically palatable in the US.

The Times – Lord Smith of Finsbury http://www.timesonline.co.uk/…/ The Chairman of the Environment Agency states in November 2009 that “rationing is the fairest and most effective way of meeting Britain’s legally binding targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions”.

Plan B? The prospects for personal carbon trading http://www.ippr.org.uk/…/ The Institute for Public Policy Research produced this report in September 2009, examining the case for and against TEQs, and concluding that Government should prepare the ground for possible future implementation.

Resurgence magazine http://www.darkoptimism.org/…/ Our own Shaun Chamberlin writes on the need for a framework to encourage local-level solutions to our energy/emissions crisis. (April 2009)

BBC Radio 4 (audio) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/…/ In this 12 minute discussion of Peak Oil from BBC Radio 4′s “You and Yours” programme (September 2008), John Hemming MP, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas explains why TEQs are the only just option for the UK Government.

Polly Toynbee in The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/…/ Following Colin Challen MP’s June 2008 letter to the paper arguing that the rapid behavioural change necessitated by climate change means that we must implement carbon rationing, Polly Toynbee’s article derides the delay in implementing an idea described by DEFRA as “ahead of its time”.

Responses to the UK Government’s pre-feasibility study Critical responses from The Lean Economy Connection (pdf) and the Centre for Sustainable Energy, as well as the IPPR’s parallel research and the BBC’s coverage of the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee’s full response. The Government’s response to the EAC’s comments (October 2008) can be found here, and Ministerial debate at Westminster here (June 2009).

UK Government pre-feasibility study into TEQs http://www.decc.gov.uk/…/ Having commissioned the Centre for Sustainable Energy’s scoping study (Nov 2006), and received positive findings, the UK Government commissioned a further five reports, as a pre-feasibility study into the TEQs concept. (May 2008)

Newsnight (video) http://www.youtube.com/ David Strahan, author of The Last Oil Shock and TEQs advocate, is interviewed on the BBC’s “Newsnight” programme (May 2008). Discussion of TEQs from the two-minute mark. A previous Newsnight discussion on TEQs can be seen here. (March 2008)

New Statesman articles http://www.newstatesman.com/…/ Rowena Macdonald reports from the 2008 Climate Camp at Kingsnorth, and points Gordon Brown towards TEQs, while Peter Wilby comments on the moral challenges inherent in addressing climate change.

Energy and the Common Purpose – 3rd edition http://www.theleaneconomyconnection.net/…/ The revised and expanded third edition of David Fleming’s popular guide to TEQs, which was first published in October 2005. Available to purchase in hard copy or as free pdf download. (September 2007)

History and Policy paper http://www.york.ac.uk/…/ Historian Dr Mark Roodhouse of the University of York examines the example of wartime rationing and concludes that “the use of taxes alone to control consumption was rejected in the World Wars, and they would not achieve the quick, dramatic cut in carbon consumption that we need now to avert environmental disaster. Tradable carbon rations would have a real impact”. (March 2007)

Australia – Ian Dunlop (pdf) http://www.aspo-australia.org.au/…/ A submission to the Australian Prime Ministerial Task Group on Emissions Trading by a former CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and former chair of both the Australian Coal Association and the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading. (March 2007)

Zero Carbon Britain http://www.zerocarbonbritain.com/ This report was published by the Centre for Alternative Technology in 2007, laying out the challenges we face and presenting a bold, radical vision of how Britain could eliminate carbon emissions altogether within 20 years. The suggested policy framework is built around Contraction and Convergence at the international level and TEQs at the national.

The Ecologist http://www.theecologist.co.uk/…/ Dr. Stephan Harding’s 2006 article addresses economic growth and the potential impact of TEQs on the global economy. Mark Jansen’s 2010 article provides an update.

David Boyle article http://david-boyle.co.uk/…/ David Boyle looks back from 2021 to the day when TEQs were implemented in 2011! (article written February 2006)

Policy Studies Institute (pdf) http://www.psi.org.uk/…/ Simon Dresner and Paul Ekins compare the impacts of various proposed policies for controlling greenhouse gas emissions from transportation (including TEQs/DTQs), focusing on whether they are likely to benefit higher-income or lower-income households. (2004)

Green Party of England and Wales (pdf) http://policy.greenparty.org.uk/…/ A briefing from the Green Party of England and Wales on their endorsement of the TEQs scheme, which is advocated in their ‘Manifesto for a Sustainable Society’.

Carbon Reduction Action Groups (CRAGs) http://www.carbonrationing.org.uk/ CRAGs are growing networks of people trying to implement TEQs-type schemes voluntarily at the community level, without waiting for Government implementation (this 2012 paper in Energy Policy examines the experiences of CRAGs and the lessons for policy).