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American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

An AEI policy paper on per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a market-discipline instrument. Frame: 'conservative case for open CDR data'.

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient
Dr. Benjamin Zycher
Senior Fellow
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Recent work
Energy-and-environmental-policy economist. Critic of federal climate regulations and SCC methodology. Recent pieces: 'The Social Cost of Carbon Is a Spurious, Arbitrary, and Unscientific Metric' (Oct 2023), 'The New Climate Consensus Is as Unproven as the Old One' (Sept 2023).

Signals the recipient responds to

Organisational context

Positions
AEI's market-discipline frame is the strongest non-climate argument for proof-pack disclosure — fiduciary and disclosure rigour, not climate ambition.
Active initiatives
Economic Policy Studies programme.
Pressures
Conservative-policy community demand for market-mechanism alternatives to regulatory mandates.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: Zycher has been sceptical of climate regulation but sympathetic to market-discipline arguments. Property-based per-tonne evidentiary disclosure is exactly the market-discipline instrument he would recognise — it prevents taxpayer exposure, enables price discovery on quality, and does not prescribe technology. A Zycher-authored AEI policy paper frames the conservative case for open CDR data.

Why now: Policy-window alignment with FY27 federal procurement debates.

The ask: AEI Economic Policy Studies paper. Zycher authorship; Trellison provides technical substrate.

Think tank: American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
Target program: Economic Policy Studies
Key contacts: AEI energy scholars; AEI's market-discipline caucus

Why this think tank

AEI's market-discipline frame is the single strongest non-climate argument for proof-pack disclosure. Fiduciary and disclosure rigour, not climate ambition, is the winning argument for a conservative audience.

The ask

An AEI policy paper on per-tonne evidentiary disclosure as a market-discipline instrument. Frame: 'conservative case for open CDR data'.

Deliverable

An AEI policy paper (Economic Policy Studies series) co-authored with Trellison, framing proof-pack disclosure as a fiduciary-integrity instrument distinct from climate policy.

Context materials Trellison can provide

Disclosure: Trellison outreach draft. Transmittal requires governance approval.

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