Sentences with phrase «global carbon pricing grew»
Global carbon pricing grew out of Cooper's and Nordhaus's proposals.
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In November, the World Bank announced that the value of global carbon pricing initiatives, such as California's cap - and - trade system, is now $ 52 billion and growing by 7 percent each year.
WASHINGTON — Even as the Trump administration dismantles climate policies at the federal level, a growing number of Democratic state governors are considering taxing or pricing carbon dioxide emissions within their own borders to tackle global warming.
Right now, our global competitors are growing their clean energy sectors in order to dominate a market that some expect to expand by $ 2 trillion over the next decade.16 As we describe in our report, Creating a Clean Energy Century, 17 China is committed to investing over $ 700 billion in clean energy over the coming decade, 18 in addition to building 245 new nuclear plants19 and putting a price on carbon.
And the carbon price movement is growing — the share of global emissions covered by a carbon price has tripled in the past ten years.
And while carbon pricing may not be a silver bullet, it's one we're going to need in the chamber — and critically, support is growing all along the global political spectrum right when we need it.
But the upside is three-fold: (i) your tax reduction or dividend check will offset much, perhaps more than 100 %, of those price increases; (ii) you'll be able to minimize your tax bite by cutting down on fuel usage (e.g., shortening those country drives, buying locally - grown produce, purchasing «green power» from wind and solar cells); and (iii) Americans» combined behavior changes in response to the carbon tax will go a long way toward protecting the climate and averting the cataclysmic consequences of unchecked global warming.
Despite the low carbon price under the EU ETS, the airline industry wishes to see the EU scheme replaced by the global offsetting measure, fittingly referred to by airlines as their «licence to grow».