Sentences with phrase «adopted carbon taxes»

The lessons learned by countries that have adopted carbon taxes will be the subject of future editorials.

What would happen if more jurisdictions adopted carbon taxes?

Various provinces have also adopted carbon taxes and cap - and - trade systems.

Following a thorough analysis of the WTO provisions governing harmonizing border provisions for carbon taxes, Hillman concluded:»... provided that policymakers carefully design a [carbon] tax, keeping in mind the basic requirements of the WTO not to discriminate in favor of domestic producers or to favor imports from certain countries over others... the threat of WTO challenges should not present a barrier to policymakers wishing to adopt a carbon tax system now.»

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.

This week, members of the Republican old guard — including two architects of the Reagan administration — proposed that the United States should adopt a carbon tax.

But it seemed possible that the party's stated goal of bringing the U.S. corporate income tax in line with other countries» revenue schemes could have pushed them to adopt a carbon tax had things gone a little differently.

If, however, societies adopt a carbon tax reflecting the health care costs of breathing polluted air and the costs of climate change, the more efficient appliances would be economically much more attractive.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

That's why we produced How To Adopt a Winning Carbon Price: Top 10 Takeaways From the Architects of British Columbia's Carbon Tax — a new compendium of insider tips for policy makers who may be considering a carbon pricing program.

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.

In «Enough Hot Air Already» [Perspectives], the editors say that because our legislators avoid carbon taxes as political suicide, we should adopt a national cap - and - trade market as an alternative.

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.

An important finding, Tyner said, was that the analysis showed a carbon tax and the ability to depreciate an investment in solar would give as much incentive for adopting solar energy as the current federal tax credit does.

Hillman concluded that both the letter and spirit of WTO trade rules permit countries with carbon taxes to adopt «non-discriminatory harmonizing tariffs.»

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.

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.

SOME people argue that a carbon tax would do little good unless it were also adopted by China and other big polluters.

The U.S. could adopt newer, tighter carbon rules to meet international climate obligations, or enact a carbon tax that increases the cost of fossil fuels.

While California has adopted an economywide cap - and - trade program, no American state has managed to impose a carbon tax.

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

«I believe the United States should adopt a revenue - neutral carbon tax, much like that suggested by NASA's James Hansen. . .

Several provinces, including Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and Quebec reject any effort to introduce a federal tax, though they agreed at a first ministers» conference in Vancouver that governments should adopt some undefined form of carbon pricing.

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.

Germany's renewable energy revolution and Australia's carbon tax are expensive solutions that will certainly have no measurable impact in isolation and heaven knows if they will if their energy generation strategies are broadly adopted world wide.

[2005 - 12] The best mechanisms for the encouraging of participation of low - income countries would be a combination of financial and technological assistance in adopting low - carbon technologies as well as a campaign to substitute carbon taxes for other taxes.

Such a review is especially important in light of recent commitments by the federal government and most provinces to adopt a minimum carbon tax (or its equivalent) across Canada and to provide a variety of subsidies to users of low - emission technology.

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.

Rather than go in this direction, however, Gillespie argues that «A better route to reducing carbon emissions runs through technological innovations that are adopted uniformly by all industries in all countries,» and that «A carbon tax that raises the cost of traditional fuels does not get us there.»

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.

Asking developing countries to adopt a modest carbon tax is much easier than asking them to accept an arbitray cap limit, and run a market that they have neither the expertise, bureaucracy, nor technology to create.

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.

Any perceived utility of a carbon tax does not lie in domestic reductions, but in the hope that it will spur technological innovations for cheap, reliable, nondangerous, environmentally friendly, zero - emissions energy production which would then be freely shared with, and quickly adopted by, the rest of the world.

Mr Cameron's letter, dated July 22, is the second high - profile endorsement for Labor's carbon tax plans in less than a week, after former British Labour prime minister Tony Blair, in Australia for a series of corporate speaking events, said reducing carbon - fuel dependence was an «intelligent» move being adopted around the world, during a joint press conference with Ms Gillard.

The best course, he says, would be to adopt a modest carbon tax — because there are certainly some ill effects of global warming — and adjust it as we learn more.

The best mechanisms for encouraging the participation of low - income countries would be a combination of financial and technological assistance in adopting low - carbon technologies as well as a campaign to persuade these countries to substitute carbon taxes for other taxes.

So far, explicit carbon taxes have not been widely adopted (though where they have been, as in British Columbia, they have worked).

Adopting a cap - and - trade or carbon tax system to rein in surging levels of emissions will be necessary to allow businesses to factor in the cost of carbon into their operations.