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Emergence of Carbon Labeling: Why all the trouble?

Emergence of Carbon Labeling: Why all the trouble?. Jiseok Kim Commissioned Researcher APEC SME Innovation Center. Consequences of a wrong price tag . $10. $100. Out of Business. Price of dumping CO 2 in atmosphere?. Very low or ZERO. It doesn’t sound like much .

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Emergence of Carbon Labeling: Why all the trouble?

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  1. Emergence of Carbon Labeling: Why all the trouble? Jiseok Kim Commissioned Researcher APEC SME Innovation Center

  2. Consequences of a wrong price tag $10 $100

  3. Out of Business

  4. Price of dumping CO2 in atmosphere? Very low or ZERO

  5. Itdoesn’t sound like much. • But consequences can be very expensive

  6. Hurricane Sandy

  7. Everyone knew it was coming…

  8. People had taken measures to prevent damage

  9. Cuba (Oct. 26 2012)

  10. New Jersey, U.S.

  11. New Jersey U.S.

  12. New York, U.S.

  13. Hurricane Sandy damage assessment

  14. The costs could not be avoided

  15. Droughts can be expensive too. And they now last much longer.

  16. 2012 UK winter flood with serious economic implications

  17. It can be like a subprime mortgage crisis DEFRA may not renew their agreement for flood defense in 2013.  200,000 homes will have no insurance  No mortgage  Slower economy

  18. …and UK droughts

  19. Life-threatening Property-damaging

  20. Dry places get drier. Wet places get wetter Queensland Sydney Melbourne

  21. Queensland: Once in a hundred-year flood in 2010 and 2011

  22. Queensland flood (2010-2011) Damage: $5.6 billion $2.8 billion raised for flood relief by budget cuts $1 billion additional fund by delaying infrastructure projects Flood levy implemented (2011) for everyone who earns more than $50,000 per year Flood insurance or relief fund become mandatory for state government Burden on Society

  23. Life without climate change

  24. Life with climate change

  25. Solution: Implement policies and measures to achieve carbon reduction.

  26. Steady reduction in carbon emission need to be made

  27. Delivery tools

  28. Zero CO2 electricity future withRenewables, Nuclear power, and Clean fossil fuels unabated use (grey) of fossil fuel must be gone

  29. National level policies are important but not enough 60 : 40 Emission unrelated to consumer choice Emission related to consumer choice

  30. Consequences of a wrong price tag $100

  31. Benefits of carbon label - Help consumers make more conscious choice - Raise consumer awareness - Improve business management - Enhance business competitiveness - And more

  32. Carbon label: An important complement to our incomplete price tag $329 $399 $499 95 kg CO2e 105 kg CO2e 170 kg CO2e

  33. Carbon label: an important factor for b2b business as well 9kg CO2e 5 kg CO2e 10 kg CO2e 12 kg CO2e

  34. It can get much worse if we don’t take action www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change

  35. Change is happening but happening too slowly “The transition to a low-carbon, inclusive green economy is happening far too slowly and the opportunity for meeting [scientific advice on emissions targets] is narrowing annually,” - AchimSteiner, executive director of UNEP. Carbon labeling can accelerate the transition.

  36. Thank you Contact: brownluv@naver.com

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