Youth climate advocacy doesn’t often go beyond educating and protesting in our local communities, and it is difficult to make our voices heard in such circumstances. How can we raise our voices to ensure we have a seat in the table of politicians, negotiators and other powerful decision-makers? Arwen sits down with Angela, a sophomore at Harvard University, who’s primary interest in the climate advocacy space is the economics behind climate change - if you want to learn about how to calculate social costs, how to best implement carbon reduction schemes on a national level, this is the episode for you.
Resources:
How Cap and Trade works: https://www.edf.org/climate/how-cap-and-trade-works
Pricing Carbon (Carbon Tax): https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/pricing-carbon
Carbon Leakage: https://ec.europa.eu/clima/eu-action/eu-emissions-trading-system-eu-ets/free-allocation/carbon-leakage_en
HarvardX online courses: https://www.edx.org/school/harvardx
YOUNGO official website: https://youngoclimate.org/
