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The key references on TEQs are:

David Fleming (2005), Energy and the Common Purpose: Descending the Energy Staircase with Tradable Energy Quotas; and
David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin (2011), TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas): A Policy Framework for Peak Oil and Climate Change

Editor’s note: For a more recent, peer-reviewed treatment of TEQs, including a summary of the system’s impact up to 2015, see:
Shaun Chamberlin, Larch Maxey and Victoria Hurth, “Reconciling Scientific Reality with Realpolitik: Moving Beyond Carbon Pricing to TEQs—An Integrated, Economy-Wide Emissions Cap”, Carbon Management, 5, 4, 16 Apr 2015, pp 411–427.

For a regularly updated list of links to the key discussions of TEQs taking place in policy circles, academia and popular media, see www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/key-articles .

 

The model of Tradable Energy Quotas, formerly “tradable quotas” and “domestic tradable quotas”, was first described in David Fleming, “Stopping the Traffic”, Country Life, vol 140, 19, 9 May 1996, pp 62–65;
—“Tradable Quotas: Setting Limits to Carbon Emissions”, Discussion Paper 11, The Lean Economy Connection ,1996 and 1997;
—“Tradable Quotas: Using Information Technology to Cap National Carbon Emissions”, European Environment, 7, 5, Sept-Oct 1997, pp 139–148;
—“Your Climate Needs You”, Town & Country Planning, 67, 9, October 1998, pp 302–304;
—ed., “Domestic Tradable Quotas as an Instrument to Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions”, European Commission, Proceedings, Workshop 1–2 July 1998, EUR 18451;
—“Building a Lean Economy for a Fuel-Poor Future”, in Richard Douthwaite, ed. (2003), Before the Wells Run Dry: Ireland’s Transition to Renewable Energy;
—“The Credit System that Can Really Cut Global Warming”, Radical Economics, 27, 2005, p 4.
For summaries of TEQs (formerly known as DTQs), see, e.g., David Boyle (2002), The Money Changers; James Bruges (2004), The Little Earth Book; George Monbiot (2007), Heat: How We Can Stop the Planet Burning, Penguin.
For formal reviews of TEQs and related schemes see, e.g., Simon Roberts and Joshua Thumim, “A Rough Guide to Individual Carbon Trading”, Report to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, November 2006, available at http://tinyurl.com/nequdmy ; UK House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee, “Personal Carbon Trading”, Fifth Report of Session 2007–08, May 2008, available at https://tinyurl.com/ost75a2 .

For more information on TEQs, including FAQs, or to subscribe to a newsletter for updates, see www.flemingpolicycentre.org.uk/teqs .

 

David Fleming
Dr David Fleming (2 January 1940 – 29 November 2010) was a cultural historian and economist, based in London, England. He was among the first to reveal the possibility of peak oil's approach and invented the influential TEQs scheme, designed to address this and climate change. He was also a pioneer of post-growth economics, and a significant figure in the development of the UK Green Party, the Transition Towns movement and the New Economics Foundation, as well as a Chairman of the Soil Association. His wide-ranging independent analysis culminated in two critically acclaimed books, 'Lean Logic' and 'Surviving the Future', published posthumously in 2016. These in turn inspired the 2020 launches of both BAFTA-winning director Peter Armstrong's feature film about Fleming's perspective and legacy - 'The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation?' - and Sterling College's unique 'Surviving the Future: Conversations for Our Time' online courses. For more information on all of the above, including Lean Logic, click the little globe below!

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