Climate Legislation Briefing - Allowance Value

Briefing on Allowance Value in a Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Cap-and-Trade System

March 27, 2009

The Pew Center held a Congressional Briefing on the use of allowance value in a GHG cap-and-trade system.  No matter what final form an eventual cap-and-trade system takes, its emissions allowances will represent significant value for decades. The panelists presented different views on how that value should be used, and the key mechanisms for distributing it.

Panelists:

• Judi Greenwald, Vice President for Innovative Solutions, Pew Center on Global Climate Change
  Moderator
  Presentation Slides [1]     Windows Media Video [2]      QuickTime Video [3]
• Peter Molinaro, Vice President, Federal and State Government Affairs, Dow Chemical Company
  Using Allowance Value to Address Competitiveness
  Windows Media Video [4]      QuickTime Video
  [5]
• Chad Stone, Chief Economist, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
  Using Allowance Value to Compensate Consumers
  Windows Media Video [6]      QuickTime Video [7]
• Melissa Lavinson, Director, Federal Environmental Affairs and Corporate Responsibility, PG&E
  US Climate Action Partnership views on Allowance Distribution
  Windows Media Video [8]      QuickTime Video [9]
• Question and Answer Session: Windows Media Video [10]      QuickTime Video
  [11]

Related Materials

Brief on Allowance Allocations [12]

More climate change policy briefs [13]

Back to list of Briefing Videos [14]

-This series was made possible through a generous grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, but the opinions expressed herein are solely those of the presenters.-