Sentences with phrase «carbon cap»

The Republican criticism of carbon cap - and - trade is also somewhat ironic, he added.

Both candidates express support for carbon cap - and - trade as the best way to control rising carbon emissions and deal with global warming.

The problem with carbon caps is that if done wrong, they won't reduce emissions sufficiently.

For the first time in eight years, a federal carbon cap program is back on the table.

Obviously this is not an ideal carbon cap and trade system — but any movement towards taxing emissions and funding renewable energy projects is progress in my book.

Thus, we might see water allocation mechanisms not unlike carbon cap - and - trade systems.

He pointed out that carbon trading is merely a tool to achieve carbon caps set by governments.

They will not be forced out of business by an overly aggressive carbon cap and trade regime.

Not surprisingly, opponents and supporters of carbon caps have very different takes on the poll's findings.

Asked in a February 2007 PBS Frontline interview about President George W. Bush's endorsement of mandatory carbon caps in his 2000 campaign, Mr. Gingrich said «there's a package there that's very, very good.

Last, despite a recent announcement by the powerful National Development and Reform and Commission (NDRC) that it is to propose a national carbon cap for China's next five - year plan, which runs from 2016 to 2020, a national Chinese carbon market is not assured.

States can also use measures such as carbon cap - and - trade systems as a way to meet their goals.»

As the research on carbon cap equivalents unfold, we'll update readers on this blog.

If nothing is done to annul them or to crank down the proposed carbon cap (which, given the strength of industrial lobbies and the weakness of government resolve, is unlikely) these spare permits will vitiate phase three as well.

One way which we at the Center for American Progress have articulated before is the «carbon caps equivalents» approach, which would quantify the unilateral domestic green measures undertaken by, for example, China, in terms of the effective emissions reductions that such measures yield, and then aggregate those reductions into a single figure that can be compared to proposed emissions reductions targets of other countries

Renewable, low - carbon and zero - carbon energy sources would be preferred and the reigning fossil fuels slowly edged out because of a lowered carbon cap over time.

California policymakers are drafting plans to cut the state's emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020 and are also engaging in talks about carbon capping and trading.

This leads me to a question for the folks who are at the leading edge of the voluntary markets for personal carbon offsets, which is this: Do you and your company ALSO support the need for either a carbon tax OR (at least) a robust carbon cap combined with a regulated carbon credit trading market?

Ensure that the tradable emission permits under Governor Pataki's proposed regional carbon cap are auctioned rather than given away with the proceeds used to mitigate negative distributional effects on low and moderate income households and to serve other economically and socially important purposes.

The left fears, perhaps with some truth, that if policymakers realize that we don't actually have the technology needed to address climate change, they will balk at putting in place carbon caps.

On the other hand, there is a way to do carbon capping right — which is the «third way» suggested earlier.

I hope the authors consider updating the report to reflect new science on the likely global carbon cap so that the oil lobby (which includes the current Norwegian government) can't use that one weakness as a handhold to further its interests.

In somewhat mixed messaging, Boyce said «we can achieve our environmental goals» but this should not involve carbon caps, carbon taxes or renewable mandates.

on the first carbon cap - and - trade proposal in the Senate.

Adding enough LNG import capacity in the next few years, combined with a sufficiently - low Federally imposed carbon cap in the US and Canada, could head hundreds of new coal and nuclear generators off at the climate pass *.

«Does carbon cap - and - trade sink the whole boat?»

An economy - wide carbon cap that gradually declines over 40 years is essential.

«At present, governments» attempts to limit greenhouse - gas emissions through carbon cap - and - trade schemes and to promote renewable and sustainable energy sources are prob ¬ ably too late to arrest the inevitable trend of global warming,» the scientists write in a paper published online in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, on Monday, 14 October 2012.

These commitments include carbon caps, mandatory renewable electricity and energy efficiency standards, announced coal plant retirements, and bringing on line nuclear power plants currently under construction.

Hemmed in by higher cost alternatives like mandating C02 sequestration for all new coal - fired plants or instituting a low enough carbon cap, they'll not be able support an effective climate management package if they are prevented from framing their support for it as a reasonable trade - off, given that natural gas will be a low - cost, clean, sustainable energy alternative.

Forest carbon offset prices ranged from less than $ 1 / tCO2e for «legacy offsets sold on the Chicago Climate Exchange the voluntary, but legally binding carbon cap - and - trade program launched in the United States in 2003 to more than $ 100 / tCO2e for improved forest management (IFM) offsets sold to Japanese buyers purchasing domestic offsets as part of the country's proprietary J - Credit Scheme.

Which of course is next to impossible in any effective carbon capping system — and rightfully so.

Critics have long said RGGI has a weak carbon cap and does little to cut emissions.

She said attention to the issue helped prompt a proposal now before the California legislature to earmark funds from the state's carbon cap program for low - income and hazard - prone communities.

By 2020, conventional coal plants must be phased out because of carbon cap restrictions, and in their place, natural gas generation soars, providing half of all electric power.

Oregon regulators are studying how to design an economywide carbon cap - and - trade system that would be able to link with other similar programs in neighboring states and provinces.

The 30 - second ads end with the tagline, «carbon caps = hard hats.»

It is basically the same reason that denialists inaccurately predicted McCain / Palin would win the presidential election, and put an end to all this AGW carbon cap and trade soc - ialist scientific conspiracy nonsense — noise generated by Limbaugh, Beck, WUWT, and various other political butterflies swirled chaotically throughout the dittosphere, preventing accurate rational assessment of the intermediate term political climate.

Without carbon caps today, a planned CCS demonstration plant in Matoon, Ill., has been idling for the last year.

Mann's now thoroughly discredited alarmist hockey stick - shaped global temperature graph was used by IPCC to push the Kyoto Protocol, and by Al Gore to push self - enriching carbon cap and trade offset trading schemes.

However, on a local level, British Columbia's revenue - neutral carbon tax remains highly popular and successful, and California implemented a similarly popular carbon cap and trade system in 2013.

Nine members of the Midwestern Governors Association (MGA) have signed the Midwestern Regional Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord, an agreement that calls for greenhouse gas reduction targets and the development of a market - based carbon cap - and - trade system.

Why do you think that he was the most powerful arguer against carbon caps?