Sentences with phrase «adopt taxes on carbon»

Tesla founder Elon Musk, one of the members of US President Donald Trump's «tech commitee,» took it to the president himself to adopt a tax on carbon emissions.

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Ms. Mitchelmore said CCS technology won't be widely adopted unless there is a price on carbon — either through a tax, a cap - and - trade system or regulations on emissions.

Together with our preceding report, How To Adopt a Winning Carbon Price, which focused on British Columbia's carbon tax, we've now offered a look «under the hood» of the two major approaches to carbon pricing, and the important lessons offered by each.

Third, governments must accept that real leverage on emissions will require a combination of market - based climate policies (such as carbon taxes and smarter trading schemes) and a set of measures to support indirect, but effective and economical pressure to cut carbon and adopt new technologies.

He proposes spending tens of billions of dollars (a bargain, he insists, compared to the hundreds of billions that would be spent on a cap - and - trade style approach), but he doesn't say how he'd convince the United States or China to adopt the necessary carbon tax.

With the recent steep fall in oil prices and associated declines in other energy prices, the stars are aligned for adopting a carbon tax on consumption of fossil fuels, Lawrence Summers, a former treasury secretary and presidential adviser, says in the Washington Post.

If the House G.O.P. adopted a carbon tax, it could «return Republican leadership to a constructive stance on this critical issue» while repealing and replacing those same rules.

I have given advice to the advocates for the carbon bill on how I think they can get a carbon tax adopted as law.

If policymakers are going to adopt a measure, a regime to affect or put in place a cost on the use of carbon across the economy, then as we look at the range of options, our economists and most economists would support a revenue - neutral, economy - wide carbon tax as the most transparent and efficient way of putting in place a cost on the use of carbon.

Liberals have proudly discussed the possibility of a carbon tax on imports from countries that have not adopted emission reductions strategies, but they have yet to publicly propose an export ban or tariff on coal.

If an emissions quota system is adopted, decisions will be needed on the relationship of the system to the carbon dioxide tax, and on the mechanism for allocating quotas.

If the United States and Europe each adopted a steep carbon tax, they could elicit broader cooperation through heavy tariffs on goods produced in countries that failed to do likewise.

The second part of the executive session focused on specific policy responses with emphasis on the feasibility of adopting carbon taxes and / or a comprehensive tradeable permit scheme.