CCL’s Jonathan Marshall recently wrote about efforts in Hawaii to introduce Carbon Cashback, a carbon fee and dividend policy. It highlighted the grassroots effort the encourage passage of the bill and the University of Hawaii study designed to establish the impact of the policy on Hawaii’s economy, emissions, and households. The study, co-authored by CCL Hawaii’s Paul Bernstein, helped to address key questions about the impact of Carbon Cashback and enable broader support of the bill. While the bill did not pass the legislature this time around, there is increased confidence in the role that Carbon Cashback will play in a socially-just decarbonization of Hawaii’s economy.

Read Marshall’s article here.