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SUMMARY:Who owns the sky? Climate solutions: what might work\, what doesn'
 t and why - Peter Barnes\, Tomales Bay Institute
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Peter Barnes\, social entrepreneur and Senior Fellow\
 , Tomales Bay Institute\n\nChair: Dr David Reiner\, Judge Business School\
 n\nIn this seminar we explore and debate current approaches to managing ca
 rbon emissions\, such as the EU Emissions Trading System\, cap-and-trade\,
  and the cap-and-share model that is now attracting attention in Europe.\n
 \nOur speaker is Peter Barnes\, Senior Fellow at the Tomales Bay Institute
 . Peter’s work focuses on how market economies need a strong third secto
 r - alongside private companies and the state - of independent trusts link
 ed to “cap and rebate” schemes that involve all citizens in stabilisin
 g the climate.\nHis advocacy of a "Sky Trust" which applied these ideas to
  stabilising the climate has attracted the interest of commentators such a
 s Robert Reich\, Secretary of Labour under President Bill Clinton\, Bill M
 cKibben\, author of ‘The End of Nature’\, Richard Parker\, author of 
 ‘John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life\, His Politics\, His Economics’ and 
 Robert F. Kennedy\, Jr. of the US Natural Resources Defense Council.\n\nTo
  register for this seminar please email Jennifer Hersch\, jlh68@cam.ac.uk
LOCATION:LT1\, Judge Business School
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