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Despite the fact that CCX is entirely voluntary - meaning the U.S. companies that participate in it aren't being forced to make emissions cuts - the market has been a success. Today, he notes, CCX has more than 400 corporate members, who last year traded 23 million tons worth of carbon...
But to truly drive the massive global carbon emissions cuts needed to avert dangerous climate change, a voluntary market like CCX will never be enough. What's needed is a mandatory carbon cap in the biggest carbon market of all - the U.S. If and when that happens, we may see...
John G. Ruggie, director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of his research on transnational human rights standards. Ruggie is one of 190 fellows selected this year to receive a portion of the...
“It codifies what had been a voluntary policy,” said Kevin Casey, Harvard’s director of federal and state relations. “It’s the next step in the movement that has been under foot for the last three or...
DHS is pushing State to integrate the passport database with a DHS program called E-Verify. The Web-based program is now mandatory for companies in several states and voluntary everywhere else. It helps some 52,000 employers make sure that workers are in the country legally (even though it...