Publications for Distribution

TC+ES has prepared hundreds of publications and presentations. Some of these are listed elsewhere in the website, at TC+ES Publications and Reports . Many of our publications and presentations are available from TC+ES. We use this page of the website to point viewers to a few of the more recent and more general interest examples of our available work. For a copy of listed items, contact us at usconsulting@ecosecurities.com.

May 2006. “Fictional Credits or Progressive Action? Seattle Utility's Greenhouse Gas Offset Program Goes to Court,” Environmental Law Reporter. A review of the ongoing court case in which Seattle City Light’s funding of carbon offsets was challenged as an inappropriate use of ratepayer funds.

April 2006. “Going for the Green! Best Actions in Climate Change,” Natural Gas and Electricity Journal. A poorly named but insightful article into how companies can effectively position themselves for climate change mandates in the face of policy and market uncertainty.

March/April 2006. “Selling Carbon Neutrality,” Environmental Forum. A policy-level introduction to the subject of retail carbon markets, the challenges of additionality, and the dangers of cross-selling renewable energy credits into the retail offsets market.

Winter 2006. “A Statistically Driven Approach to Offset-Based GHG Additionality Determinations: What Can We Learn,” Sustainable Development Law and Policy. Additionality has been the biggest challenge in the development of greenhouse gas emissions trading programs. This paper in a step-by-step manner explains why that has been the case, why additionality is so important, and how we can address additionality if we really want to.

Fall 2005. “Beyond Ideology: Mitigating Climate Change,” Policy Matters. An essay into why climate change is such a tough nut to crack, why it is becoming so difficult to figure out what’s working and what’s not, and why we have to keep a close eye on the objective.

November 2005. “The Shape of Markets to Come,” Environmental Finance. Prepared for the COP-11 issue of Environmental Finance, the paper looks at current GHG credit prices around the world, and how they may evolve in the future.

Fall, 2005. “Southern Oregon Climate Sustainability Project,” Oregon State Bar Outlook. Describes an initiative developed by TC+ES to demonstrate the potential benefits of a regional effort to demonstrate the benefits of a coordinated emissions reduction program.

August 2005. “U.S. Climate Policies: Implications for the Carbon Market?” Carbon Market Analyst. A survey of U.S.GHG policy and market activity, with the goal of identifying whether and how this activity is likely to affect carbon markets internationally.

April 2005. “Of Crystal Balls and Market Fundamentals - Anticipating GHG Prices,” Green Trading. A comprehensive look at the importance of GHG market price anticipation for corporate strategy development, and a roadmap to developing company-specific market forecasts that are most likely to be integrated in corporate strategic planning.

February 2005. “Carbon Defies Commodity Pricing,” Environmental Finance. In introduction to greenhouse gas credits as an environmental commodity, and the implications of their characteristics for thinking about the future GHG market.

February 2005. “Is Russia's Ratification Enough? How Dependent is the Global Greenhouse Gas Market on Post-2012 Commitments?” Carbon Finance. A quantitative look at the importance of post-2012 commitments under the Kyoto Protocol to near-term GHG markets and prices.