How Long to Read Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons

How Long Does it Take to Read Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 16 minutes to read Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons by Leigh Raymond

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative created a new paradigm in climate policy by requiring polluters to pay for their emissions for the first time. In 2008, a group of states in the northeast United States launched an emissions trading program, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). With RGGI, these states—Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont—achieved what had been considered politically impossible: they forced polluters to pay the public for their emissions. The states accomplished this by conducting auctions of emissions “allowances”; by 2014, they had raised more than $2.2 billion in revenues. In this first in-depth examination of RGGI, Leigh Raymond describes this revolutionary and influential policy model and explains the practical and theoretical implications for climate policy. Other cap-and-trade schemes had been criticized for providing private profits rather than public benefits, allowing private firms to make money by buying and selling valuable “rights to pollute.” RGGI, by contrast, directed virtually all emissions auction revenues to programs benefiting the public at large. By reframing the issue in terms of public benefits, environmental advocates emphasized the public ownership of the atmospheric commons and private corporations' responsibility to pay for their use of it. Raymond argues that this kind of “normative reframing” is significant not only for environmental policy making but also for theories of the policy process, helping to explain and predict sudden policy change.

How long is Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons?

Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons by Leigh Raymond is 253 pages long, and a total of 64,009 words.

This makes it 85% the length of the average book. It also has 78% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 49 minutes to read Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons aloud.

What Reading Level is Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons?

Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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