Sentences with phrase «at lower carbon prices»

At lower carbon prices, plant developers could well conclude that it is more economical to build uncontrolled SCPC plants and then purchase credits to offset their emissions.

Not exact matches

But it's key to get low - carbon electricity «at a price British consumers are prepared to wear».

In this context, switching from high - cost diesel to a low - carbon alternative fuel isn't just the green thing to do; it's key to ensuring consumer products stay at affordable prices, Elizabeth Fretheim, director of business strategy and sustainability logistics at Wal - Mart Stores Inc., explained at a symposium last week hosted by the nonprofit group Business for Social Responsibility (BSR).

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With the global economy in recession, fuel prices still high and ever - tighter emissions laws ahead, you might imagine that they too would be heading at full tilt towards an economical, low - carbon future.

In the UK, the levy control framework mechanism needs to be looked at again to prevent low fossil energy prices disrupting the money available for low carbon generation.»

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To get those technologies off the shelf, a price on carbon is needed — but that price should start low and rise over time — it is the future price of carbon at the time when a new technology has emerged that provides the incentive for innovation, not the price of carbon today.

Only carbon - pricing provides strong incentives that push all sources to control at the same marginal abatement cost, thereby achieving a given aggregate target at the lowest possible cost.

At a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investmenAt a plausible GHG emissions price of $ 50 / t CO2eq under a future US carbon mitigation policy, such co-production systems competing as power suppliers would be able to provide low - GHG - emitting synthetic fuels at the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investmenat the same unit cost as for coal synfuels characterized by ten times the GHG emission rate that are produced in plants having three times the synfuel output capacity and requiring twice the total capital investment.

First, and most obvious, no one (least of all Tony Abbott) believes that the government's «Direct Action» policy is a superior alternative to the carbon price, one that will deliver emissions reductions more rapidly and at lower costs.

The claim to a bright future which the nuclear industry clung to for the last 20 years was that the technology produced large quantities of low carbon electricity at a low price — something that intermittent renewables could not do.

By putting a price on carbon, these policies give businesses the incentive to innovate so they can cut emissions at the lowest possible cost.

As Mark Jaccard and colleagues at Simon Frazer University in Vancouver have shown, carbon pricing tends to reach a political resistance point at a relatively low price.

At Shell we advocate publicly and to governments that a strong and stable price on CO2 emissions will help drive the right investments in low - carbon technologies.

The report did not attempt to specify what the carbon price should be, but Lord Stern said the EU price at the moment is «far, far too low».

The system of regulated end - user prices, however, is subsidising electricity consumption at a time when low - carbon power supply is becoming more constrained and expensive.

At present, carbon prices in the fledgling market hover around a laughably low $ 4 per tonne.

I stand to be corrected as I wouldnt follow things as closely as you guys would, but the net result is surely that the US have a clear need to generate energy at the lowest possible price in order to remain compettitive which is likely to impact on your carbon reduction plans and also you must rein in the various projects that will increase state spending.

«The collapse in the share prices of the US coal sector 2011 - 14 is an illustration of how markets can punish investors in a climate - constrained world where lower carbon technology is developing rapidly,» said Mark Fulton research advisor to Carbon Tracker and formerly head of research at Deutsche Bank on climate.

Because low - carbon technologies cost so much more, no political economy in the world has been willing to raise fossil energy prices high enough to make renewable energy cost - competitive at any scale that matters.

By the time the president made the decision, oil prices were so low that the «unlikely» low oil price scenario in the State Department Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)-- where oil prices fell below $ 75 a barrel — had actually come to be and thus there was no shying away from the fact that the pipeline would cause the equivalent of over 6 million passengers cars worth of carbon pollution every year for at least 50 years.

And unless a global carbon market is established, there's always a danger polluters will just move from a region with a high carbon price, to a market with a lower price, or no price at all.

«Without ambitious climate targets there is no need for deep emission reductions and carbon prices will remain at low levels.

«Carbon pricing makes sense in all countries, but low - income countries, which may be more challenged to protect the people vulnerable to the initial economic impacts, may decide to start pricing carbon at a lower level and gradually increase over time.»

Particularly since we have a climate change bill making its way through Congress that will, at long last, if all goes well, put a price on carbon emissions — thereby giving low - carbon energy sources what they desperately need, which is a fighting chance to compete with fossil fuels on something resembling a level playing field.

But remember, carbon prices are likely to begin at relatively low levels, well short of the SCC.

I get that the proposed Australian carbon tax goes half to some bumptious government programs and only half to the shareholders of CO2E, and is set at an absurdly low arbitrary level with no real plan for right - pricing this common asset, so is bound to satisfy no one.

The ALJ accepted the global number despite the contradiction in the FSCC advocates» position: that Minnesota should use the global number as the measure of damage for each ton emitted in Minnesota and should also count emissions reductions from pricing at the FSCC as an accruing climate benefit (even though they acknowledged emissions might well be shifted to locations with a lower, or zero, carbon price).

A carbon price that reflects the full cost of emissions would increase the cost of gas - fired generation to a level at or above the cost of some low - carbon options.

I am motivated to submit these comments so that there is at least one voice of the unaffiliated public whose primary interest is low rates and an understanding of the basis of the rationale for a carbon price.

Which is a shame, because the Solcer House, designed by The Welsh School of Architecture's Ester Coma at Cardiff University and built for the Low Carbon Research Institute, was a prototype for a carbon positive house that could be built at an affordable price.

Now lolling in the doldrums at a mere 80 cents per tonne, the low price of carbon in the CDM means that the mechanism is failing.

Economists broadly agree that carbon pricing is the preferred method for reducing emissions with the lowest economic cost, but resistance to the idea at the federal level has led to the territory being seceded to the governing Liberal party.