Sentences with phrase «carbon floor»

Meaningful and rising carbon floor prices could provide the necessary push to phase out coal and encourage innovation.

Meaningful and rising carbon floor prices could provide the necessary push to phase out coal and encourage innovation.

According to the PBO, provincial cooperation with the federal carbon floor may reduce the size of Canada's economy by 0.5 per cent in 2020.

President Francois Hollande commits to unilateral carbon floor price in a bid to «show the way» towards a more effective carbon market

The thinner glass, titanium exhaust and pared back cabin with its exposed carbon floor make this the first great sounding McLaren.

We see this as a worrying trend,» she says giving the UK carbon floor price as an example.

Saathoff said a common carbon floor price in European countries would reveal that renewable energy sources like offshore wind power are more competitive than fossil and other energy sources.

Meaningful and rising carbon floor prices either at the national or regional level would speed up pollution cuts by incentivising low carbon investments and making coal financially unattractive.

As the UK's carbon floor price is currently # 16 per tonne, and that is only paid by the most energy intensive firms, we can indeed say that the new estimates of the TCR do show that our climate policy is misguided, but not in the direction that Matt Ridley believes; the new TCR estimates support a much tougher policy than the one we currently have in place.

«The electricity market reform and the carbon floor price provide the foundations on which to build Britain's low carbon energy future.

«The carbon floor price mechanism presents an excellent opportunity to raise finance to support a new generation of low carbon fossil fuel electricity generation, using carbon capture and storage (CCS).

The Treasury has also confirmed that a carbon floor price will be introduced and, in doing so, has united both big industry and big environmental NGOs in opposition.

It's scandalous that they should earn millions of pounds for doing nothing when the government introduces its carbon floor price next year.

They passed a motion on a green stimulus for the economy earlier this afternoon that included an amendment saying the government should «introduce a windfall tax on operators of existing nuclear stations, recovering through taxation the profits they make solely as a result of the introduction of the carbon floor price from April 2013».

As the EU institutions wrap up a climate policy framework for 2030, the CEO of one of Europe's biggest energy companies has issued a fresh call for a carbon tax for the transport and heating sectors as well as a carbon floor price for the industry and power sectors.

«In particular for the UK, which has introduced a carbon floor price, there is the risk of having an unlevelled economic playing field with the rest of Europe if the EU ETS is not reformed and supported.

And the new Dutch Government has committed to bring in a carbon floor price at national level which will help the business case for offshore wind.

Some environmental policies are as a result of UK initiatives, Driven by concerns on carbon price, the UK unilaterally enacted the carbon floor price which is contributing to the closure of coal - fired power stations.