It is difficult to identify another policy tool that has been either more celebrated or dismissed in recent decades as carbon pricing. Long heralded by advocates as a silver bullet to confront climate change, it has increasingly been panned by critics as a political non-starter that distracts from serious climate mitigation. This paper reviews the last half-decade of global climate policy and carbon pricing experience. It examines significant political challenges to pricing adoption in nations including the United States. However, it also demonstrates that carbon pricing can play an increasingly significant role in supporting decarbonization in such cases as the European Union, the United Kingdom, and Canada, part of an ensemble of policies rather than a solo act. Such cases may expand in coming years through stronger links between pricing and trade policy, continued shifting of pricing revenues toward green investment programs, and extension of pricing to short-lived climate
michael is back. and he s more dangerous. maybe the only way he can die. is if i die too. [ screaming ] brett parker had declared a resounding not guilty to the murder of his wife tammy and friend bryan capnerhurst. from the day it happened to this day in court, he insisted that he was the innocent victims of a robbery gone bad. who shot your wife? a friend of mine, brian. is he still there? i shot him. i think i killed him. defense attorney david fedor said the accusation that brett plotted to kill his wife and then framed his friend was too
farfetched to believe. i think brett is a fine young man, he is not a genius. it would ve taken an einstein to set this thing up. would it take a genius though to concoct a plan like that? i think i m fairly bright and i d be damned if i could ve thought about that. bryan capnerhurst fired that handgun in court, brett parker s attorney said bryan was a desperate man with far more motive for murder. a man that was at the end of his rope. who had a desire for money, and a plan for violence. and the evidence in this case have been proven. still, the defense thought it had an uphill battle, he knew it didn t help his case that his client was an unfaithful husband and gambler. they showed he was a bad man because he gambled. he had an affair. they said that was another thing that showed he was a murderer. it was just ludicrous. from the start, fedor and co-counselor mark whitlock wanted the jury to know, okay, sure, brett is a gambler himself was deep in debt, but he was
just kept getting more red red flags coming up. tammy s best friend angela leon didn t know anything about the investigation. but she had a gut feeling something wasn t right. she called up the sheriff s department to say she thought brett was lying. i reached out to them and wanted to make sure they knew that there were people that had a different side of the story. brett continued to insist it was self-defense. but within a week of the shooting, he had gotten a lawyer, david fedor. the sheriff had told us he thought it was a little odd that brett retained a defense attorney so quickly when he was claiming he was a victim. anybody that is in a situation like that that doesn t retain an attorney immediately needs psychiatric help. his attorney said brett was no killer. he was just defending himself after bryan showed up to steal his money. capnerhurst went over there specifically to rob the people. tammy was there. he shot her first and we assumed he was going to shoot bret
they said that was another thing that showed he was a murderer. it was just ludicrous. from the start, fedor and co-counselor mark whitlock wanted the jury to know, okay, sure, brett is a gambler himself was deep in debt, but he was in debt to an old friend he d known since he was 15. you weren t worried about that? i ve never been worried about brett. if you had called you and said look i have a problem, you would ve written the whole thing clean for him? yes. you never put any pressure on him? no sir. and that life insurance policy the prosecution suggested was a smoking gun? the insurance agent testified brett wasn t even all that interested in a policy on tammy. did you attempt to sell him insurance on his wife? yes. were you successful in selling him insurance on his