Sentences with phrase «what about a carbon tax»

What about a carbon tax?

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«Can I say to Australians the debate that they are hearing about a carbon tax is a debate about what Tony Abbott calls a carbon tax, which [it] will be for a limited period of time and then we will move to an emissions trading scheme.»

Second, there is a wider debate over what to do, or not do, about climate change, with peoples» preferences (a carbon tax, a technology push, building dikes or parasols in space) not so much a function of science as values.

However this view is based on a lack of knowledge of what Marx actually wrote about the nature of the modern state which was: «The executive of the modern state is nothing but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie» Some leftists may well scream in exactly the same way as the new rightists, that carbon taxes are part of a plot by the wicked capitalists to make the poor freeze in winter.

Virgin Group CEO Richard Branson, when asked by TNA about what he wanted from Rio +20, called for planetary carbon taxes and global treaties supposedly to protect the environment.

IDL is expensive, what about our bloody carbon tax and Department of Climate Change!

And further, to be fair, if I came at you with a simple model and suggested that we should tax carbon based on a zero dimensional model, I'll wager that you might ask» what's that model say about sea level rise?»

What the paper actually did was compare carbon tax revenue to total tax revenue and consider what that might imply about practical limitations to how countries can price carWhat the paper actually did was compare carbon tax revenue to total tax revenue and consider what that might imply about practical limitations to how countries can price carwhat that might imply about practical limitations to how countries can price carbon.

If they don't enact a stiff tax on carbon in 2021; and if they don't start using the full legal authority of the Clean Air Act to regulate all sources of carbon emissions — implementing what is in effect a carbon fuel rationing scheme — then they can be rightly accused of being totally dishonest and hypocritical in claiming to be concerned about the impacts of climate change.

This gap is about to increase, as Australia has taken the first steps to cancel its carbon tax and Japan is backtracking from what it promised to reduce.

Zhang, ZhongXiang and Baranzini, Andrea (2000): What do we know about carbon taxes?

You may want to check out what Canada's Auditor General has to say about the Pacific Carbon Trust — the government entity charged with collecting the carbon tax in British Columbia.

That's what two men named David thought, too, when they first met in 2008 to talk about a climate policy with very little support: a national tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

Anyway, would you like comment on what I am going to submit to the task force about a carbon tax?

Oil companies don't care about carbon taxes because they will simply incorporate the costs into what consumers pay.

Sure, tax cuts, grants and loans are fairly easy to account for, but what about military deployments to secure foreign oil supplies, or infrastructure costs like roads and transmission lines, or the seemingly endless stream of external costs linked to carbon emissions, toxic air and water pollutants, higher health care costs and missed work days?

What about when carbon is taxed or capped and traded?

What our kids need to know most is that adults are acting like grown - ups... If we want to show our kids we mean business about global warming, let's start by ponying up for a carbon tax.

I believe demonstrating that «I know what I'm talking about» will be the first step in attempting my effort to help to get a carbon tax eventually passed.

But what about a direct tax on carbon that goes up each year?

In what many view as a stark about - face, College Republicans across the country are endorsing a carbon tax to address climate change.

Researchers (in an article republished on Croakey) answered readers» questions about the change, shedding light on what it would mean for household bills, tax benefits, and future of carbon emissions in our country.