Sentences with phrase «carbon emissions price»

A carbon emissions price allows consumers to consider the costs of these emissions and adjust their purchasing decisions accordingly, effectively allowing the free market to assist in the emissions reductions.

However if the good is sold to let's say Germany, then the German customer will have to pay, together with the price for the good, the carbon emission price that is later returned to the Chinese citizens.

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RCP4.5 is based on the MiniCAM Level 2 stabilization scenario reported in Clarke et al. (2007) with additional detail on the non-CO2 and pollution control assumptions documented by Smith and Wigley (2006), and incorporating updated land use modeling and terrestrial carbon emissions pricing assumptions as reported in Wise et al. (2009a, b).

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While many other estimates exist for the number of coal plants at risk of retirement as they become financially unviable or reach the end of their expected lifespan, the majority fail to account for many of the costs of environmental compliance and for a long - term carbon emission price.

Not exact matches

In 2008, Canada and the U.S. seemed to be moving to introduce cap - and - trade schemes that would have imposed a price for carbon emissions.

The plummeting price of clean energy has allowed the US to decrease its carbon emissions over the last three years while the country's GDP has increased.

This is far from clear: a proper carbon pricing policy would favour firms that are profitable enough to absorb the cost of GHG emissions, and penalise those who can only survive if emissions are not priced.

That would give the company an even more dominant position in the pits north of Fort McMurray, which even some Calgary financiers consider a sunset industry in light of low oil prices and international pressure to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

With the exception of implicit prices on carbon on some emissions in Sweden, Japan, and Germany (see this recent OECD report for details), no carbon pricing policy in place today comes close to that type of stringency.

Starting in 2017, Alberta will apply a $ 20 - a-tonne price on carbon emissions that will cover about 90 per cent of the economy, including essentials such as gasoline and home heating fuel.

Pretty well every economist you talk to will agree: If you want to reduce pollution, carbon or otherwise, the most cost - effective way to do so is with a price on the emissions of that which you seek to reduce.

A $ 30 per tonne carbon price, as is currently in place in B.C., applied on emissions, would increase processing costs by about 12 cents per gigajoule.

Under the guise of a cap - and - trade plan, the NDP, they charge, would put a price on carbon emissions that would ruin the energy sector.

«The other emissions come from things like landfill gas emissions, agriculture tilling — the release of methane through soil — those types of emissions are really difficult to measure and calculate, so generally for carbon pricing programs you don't cover those emissions.»

Requiring the reduction of carbon emissions will make coal - based energy more costly, while solar and wind technology are expected to be priced more competitively, thereby supporting those alternative energy industries, says Jason Blumberg, chief executive and managing director of Energy Foundry, a Chicago - based cleantech impact venture capital fund.

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

with carbon pricing and other measures, including eliminating coal - fired power plants, cutting methane emissions from the oil industry, and making cleaner fuels, Canada will still be 90 million tonnes shy of its international emissions targets set in 2015 under the Paris agreement

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

Price: Though the policy doesn't impose a hard cap on emissions, it imposes a hard cap on the price of caPrice: Though the policy doesn't impose a hard cap on emissions, it imposes a hard cap on the price of caprice of carbon.

Jack Layton and the NDP are campaigning on a cap - and - trade program, which would set a $ 35 per tonne price on carbon and cap emissions from large industry.

When it decided to attach a price tag to carbon emissions, Alberta turned to the Gazette announcement, crafting a system targeting emissions above 100,000 tonnes per year through intensity targets.

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.

commissioned by Clean Energy Canada last fall found that most respondents support or somewhat support the idea of putting a price on carbon emissions (59 %).

A senior oil executive is urging federal and provincial governments to put a significant price on carbon dioxide to encourage the industry to reduce emissions even as it increases production and accesses new and growing markets.

A majority of Canadians (59 %) support or somewhat support a price on carbon emissions, and 62 % support or somewhat support a minimum carbon price that applies across Canada.

Opinion: Some say Canada's emission levels don't require onerous policies like carbon pricing.

Voser's answer is that carbon emissions won't be free forever: governments must put a price on them.

The logic behind carbon pricing — most likely either a tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system that allows companies to sell emission permits back and forth — is powerful.

First, Trudeau had to work with the NDP government in Alberta to twin his plan for a national price on carbon with its provincial plan and with its idea to put an emission cap on the oil sands.

Of course, much of that trail could be wiped away by pricing carbon emissions and applying that price to imports via a carbon tariff.

Emissions - intensive companies generate a lot of carbon pollution, so they feel a carbon price more strongly.

Regardless of where exactly crude prices would end up trading, it's a certainty that once carbon emissions become more of a consideration the price of a barrel of oil will be heading lower.

Won't falling oil prices always trigger a rebound in oil demand (and, by extension, an equally large bounce in carbon emissions)?

Increasingly, companies across sectors and geographies are turning to an internal carbon price as one tool to help them reduce carbon emissions, mitigate climate - related business risks, and identify opportunities in the transition to a low - carbon economy.

First, Alberta will adopt an oil sands specific emission performance standard with a $ 30 / tonne carbon price applied to any additional emissions.

In his year - end interviews, and in the final days of the fall sitting of the House of Commons, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said it would be crazy to impose additional costs on Canada's oil and gas sector in a time of low prices if the U.S. was not enacting similar carbon emission policies.

In such a system, imports from countries that do not price carbon emissions would be subject to a tariff equivalent to the price imposed on the carbon content of such goods made in Canada, counting the carbon emitted to produce goods and to transport them here.

Through the following op - ed in Thursdayâ $ ™ s Toronto Star, the United Steelworkersâ $ ™ Canadian Director makes the case for a carbon tariff. It is now widely accepted that the struggle against global warming will involve placing a price on carbon emissions.

This will be accomplished through a combination of a «cap and trade» carbon pricing system, mandatory vehicle emission standards, and investing in renewable energy production and consumption.

While both governments remain committed to finding new markets for Canada's oil and gas, they have voiced strong support for increasing clean energy production and exports in order to reduce carbon emissions and the impact of fluctuating oil prices on Canada's economy.

Finally, CME noted that carbon pricing schemes need to be designed in such a way so as not to merely transfer GHG emissions out of the province (or country).

In fact, we support transparent, predictable, economy - wide carbon pricing mechanisms as the most cost - effective emissions reduction strategy.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

Major new study details how carbon prices across the bloc could double by 2021 if the EU moves to make emissions trading scheme compatible with the Paris Agreement

The Tories have attacked the Liberals» carbon tax policy and have argued it will raise prices on almost everything — from gasoline and groceries — without actually cutting emissions.

Simply — and stringently — price carbon emissions across all sectors of the economy consistent with our obligation under article 4.4 of the UN Paris Agreement to undertake economy - wide absolute emission reductions, and allow the market to react to that unequivocally clear price signal.

If we put a price on those emissions of $ 50 - 200 per tonne, reflecting some recent estimates of the external costs of carbon emissions, we get a range of $ 4 - 20 billion in environmental costs just from GHG emissions.

John Williamson of Canadians for Affordable Energy argues forcefully in a recent Maclean's piece that putting a price on carbon emissions will harm Canada's economy and put our firms at a competitive disadvantage.