Sentences with phrase «abatements cost about»

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The conversation was charged as panelists sparred on 421a, with Pinsky — the former head of the city's Economic Development Corporation — raising questions about the cost of lengthy tax abatements.

While the Government says carbon abatement costs per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) should be about # 56 ($ 87) for road transport, the report says the cost using the current generation of biofuels ranges from about # 105 to # 715 ($ 165 - 1,100).

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

Amid all the wailing and gnashing of teeth in many Anglo countries about the cost of carbon abatement and clean energy, the European Union remains steadfast in its belief that's investing in the future is a lot cheaper than business as usual.

Even using ECS = 3.2 C per CO2 doubling and a high damage function, the abatement cost greatly exceeds the projected benefits for all of this century for any reasonable assumptions about achievable participation rates.

An electricity grid powered b y mostly nuclear power (like France) with some pumped hydro and some gas for peaking, abates more CO2 than a mostly renewable energy powered grid, and does so ant about 1/3 the abatement cost.

Discounted global abatement costs are anything from about 30 to 400 percent higher than under globally efficient pricing in most cases, and near - and medium - term emissions prices can be ten times larger with China's accession delayed until 2035.

Compared with the globally efficient policy (with a globally harmonized emissions price at all times), near - term emissions prices in developed countries rise from between a few percent and 100 percent under the different scenarios, and discounted global abatement costs are higher by about 10 to 70 percent.

The nuclear scenario costed here, with 73 % of electricity generated by nuclear, is estimated at 1/4 to 1/3 the capital cost, 1 / 3 to1 / 2 the cost of electricity and about 1/3 the CO2 abatement cost of the renewable energy scenarios.

The emissions price must also rise at roughly the rate of interest (about five percent) over time (to equate the discounted marginal abatement costs at different points in time).

Unlike a cap - and - trade system, there's no analysis and debate about the cost of allowances (and the marginal abatement costs they represent); and unlike a carbon tax, there's no analysis and no focus on the dollar amount of the tax and the aggregate cost.

China's climate policy meshes with concerns about energy security, pollution abatement and the cost of energy itself, as well as the impacts of climate change and China's international reputation.

On that basis, the CO2 abatement cost with wind is about 2x what is claimed.