Here are links to resources describing public trust allocation in a future carbon market:

New booklet: Citizen's Guide to Carbon Capping by Peter Barnes, with research by Mike Sandler. This 22-page guide describes three different ways to cap carbon: cap-and-giveaway, cap-and-auction, and cap-and-rebate. More info at:
Cap and Dividend.org

Sky Trust: How to Fight Global Warming by Peter Barnes and Rafe Pomerance

Evaluation of Cap-and-Trade Programs for Reducing U.S. Carbon Emissions by the Congressional Budget Office

Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions by the Congressional Budget Office

Letter to U.S. Senate Energy Committee regarding Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions
by the Congressional Budget Office

Approaches to Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emissions by Peter Orszag, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, Testimony given before the Committee on the Budget U.S. House of Representatives, Nov. 1, 2007.

Design Elements for a Successful CO2 Trading Program Presentation to California Air Resources Board (CARB), October 20, 2006 by Dallas Burtraw

Carbon Emission Trading Costs and Allowance Allocations: Evaluating the Options by Dallas Burtraw,
Resources for the Future, Fall 2001

Tradeable Carbon Permit Auctions: How and Why to Auction Not Grandfather by Peter Cramton and Suzi Kerr. 1998. Working Paper, University of Maryland.

Neutralizing the Adverse Industry Impacts of CO2 Abatement Policies: What Does it Cost? by Lans Bovenberg and Lawrence Goulder,Working Paper No. 7654 (Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2000).

The Effect of Allowance Allocation on the Cost of Carbon Emission Trading," by Burtraw, Dallas & Karen Palmer & Bharvirkar, Ranjit & Paul, Anthony, Resources for the Future, 2001.

US Carbon Emissions Trading: Description of an Upstream Approach by the Center for Clean Air Policy, March 1998.

The Great Emissions Rights Giveaway (a critique of the ETS allowance giveaway) by FEASTA, 2007.

Cap and Rebate: How to Curb Global Warming while Protecting the Incomes of American Families
by James K. Boyce & Matthew Riddle, October 2007.

Carbon Caps with Universal Dividends: Equitable, Ethical, and Politically Effective Climate Policy by John Bailey, Institute for Local Self Reliance, New Rules Project, March 2008.

Grist article describing the The Earth Atmospheric Trust.

Grist article that discusses Carbon Share.

U.S. News and World Report article on Cap and Dividend.

Recent articles by Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Congressional Budget Office Director Peter Orszag.

The Siteline Institute in Seattle has a blog series on Climate Fairness. Here's a good post.

For a more complete bibliography, click here.

Here is a list of people who have endorsed the public trust allocation of GHG emission rights, including Carbon Share:

Mike Sandler, Carbon Share Program Manager, Co-founder of the Climate Protection Campaign

Ann Hancock, Executive Director, Climate Protection Campaign

Peter Barnes, author of Who Owns the Sky? and Capitalism 3.0; Senior Fellow, Tomales Bay Institute

The Climate Protection Campaign has a petition signed by dozens of people who support Cap and Dividend

Richard Douthwaite, author and economist, Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability (FEASTA), and Cap and Share (Europe),www.capandshare.org

Rafael Aguilera, The Verde Group

Environment California has posted a sign on list of people supporting 100% auction in California

Earth Inc., a group in Burlington, VT has a website listing people who support the Earth Atmospheric Trust

Elizabeth Thompson, Climate Solutions Program Manager, Ecology Action

Garland L. Brinkley PhD MPH, Touro University - CA

Barry Vesser, Development Director, Climate Protection Campaign

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