Sentences with phrase «arguing high carbon price»
Former UN climate chief says there's little chance 2015 summit will be able to curb soaring emissions, arguing high carbon price is best solution
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Commentators including Parliament's Energy and Climate Change Committee and IPPR have argued that the only logical solution is for the UK to scrap the CPF and push for a high carbon price across the whole of the EU instead.
A report published by the Environmental Law Students Association (ELSA), called for a «carbon price escalator» with S$ 5 annual increments in the tax rate, arguing that Singapore's initial price of S$ 5 is too far off from the benchmark of US$ 50 — US$ 100 per tonne of emissions recommended by World Bank's High - Level Comission on Carbon Prices report.
And worse still they continually argue for irrational policies — like government imposed carbon pricing schemes and very high cost renewable energy while blocking nuclear power development.
In January 2008, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published «Fast, Clean and Cheap,» which argues that the vast price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy sources combines with public resistance to higher energy prices to create a fundamental constraint on the efficacy of carbon pricing to drive emissions reductions everywhere in the world.
In January 2008, the Harvard Law and Policy Review published «Fast, Clean, and Cheap,» which argued that the vast price gap between fossil fuels and clean energy sources combines with public resistance to higher energy prices to create a fundamental constraint on the efficacy of carbon pricing to drive emissions reductions everywhere in the world.
> I think a high carbon price is politically impossible, which is why I argue for starting low with investments in innovation as part of the package.
A variety of consultants have also argued that Arctic oil is too expensive to find and develop in either a low oil price environment or in a future world with a higher price on carbon emissions.
Most famously, Nicholas Stern, an economist at the London School of Economics, argued in 2006 for quick, aggressive action to limit emissions, which would most likely imply much higher carbon prices.
In what his aides called one of the most significant policy addresses of his second and final term, the mayor argued that directly taxing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that contribute to climate change will slow global warming, promote economic growth and stimulate technological innovation — even if it results in higher gasoline prices in the short term.