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Smart policy, not the Business Council of British Columbia's (BCBC) plan of inaction, is how B.C. can drive down carbon pollution while maintaining the competitiveness of the province's export industries.

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I notice that TAU's two official reasons are: 1) insufficient market for CO2, and 2) lack of a high enough policy - driven carbon price.

While the prime minister and the premiers work to develop a national clean growth and climate action plan, some provinces have already adopted policies that are cutting carbon pollution and driving clean economic development.

Meanwhile, emerging environmental policies such as carbon taxes are cited as potential factors in driving even more of the manufacturing sector out of Ontario, as has already been experienced in BC.

This mix of public policies (incentives, infrastructure and investment) must be ambitious, to drive clean innovation — which is the key to generating climate solutions and securing Canadian competitiveness and jobs in a low - carbon world.

Those nine areas are focused on agriculture (carbon farming), increasing energy efficiency, reducing food waste, eliminating commodity - driven deforestation, reducing the climate impact of packaging, advocating for responsible policies, committing to 100 percent renewable power, reducing short - lived climate pollutant emissions and transportation - related emissions.

There was also the optimism that policy would drive the technology, that there would be a price on carbon [a carbon tax], that there would be a logical path toward making these ideas happen.

A deal that sees all major emitters cutting greenhouse gases will be key to driving the needed global investment in low - carbon growth, the commission argues, calling it a «powerful macroeconomic policy instrument» that will send clear signals to businesses and investors.

Such a pathway is exceedingly difficult to achieve, given the current widespread absence of policies to drive rapid movement to carbon - free energies and the lifetime of energy infrastructure in place.

He went on to stress the importance of government policies that can drive the development and dissemination of low - carbon energy technologies.

Last week I posted a «Your Dot» contribution from Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, a University of Chicago climate scientist concerned that policy makers and the public keep in mind the primacy of carbon dioxide emissions if they are serious about limiting the chances of propelling disruptive human - driven global warming.

The goal of the paper I have just written is to «restart» the discussion of climate change, which, as I see it, is on the verge of disappearing from view, putting into cold storage both 1) the policy initiatives like carbon prices and regulations that could have short - term impact on wedge technologies like conventional renewables, efficiency, and CCS, and 2) commitments to the advancement of a climate - change - driven research frontier.

There are those seeking science - driven policy who insist it's clear now that we overshot the safe zone for greenhouse gas concentrations in 1988, when the carbon dioxide level was 350 parts per million.

I reached out to Pierrehumbert because he is one of many authors of «Consequences of twenty - first - century policy for multi-millennial climate and sea - level change,» an important new Nature Climate Change analysis reinforcing past work showing a very, very, very long impact (tens of millenniums) on the Earth system — climatic, coastal and otherwise — from the carbon dioxide buildup driven by the conversion, in our lifetimes, of vast amounts of fossil fuels into useful energy.

Scientists and policy - makers sometimes refer to the status of the unadulterated climate by the preindustrial levels of carbon dioxide, under the assumption that staying below 350 ppm would entail a climatically safer world characterized, among other things, by a decrease of anthropogenically driven extremes.

Every few years, New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity surveys economists who have expertise on climate change, and it always finds overwhelming support for putting a price on carbon to drive down emissions — support that ideologues on the right routinely dismiss, usually on unfounded «economic» grounds.

The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, complains that if EU policies drive heavy polluters to countries with laxer carbon regimes, that would be «neither efficient, nor fair, nor economically sustainable».

The three scenarios developed are Modern Jazz, which represents a «digitally disrupted,» innovative, and market - driven world, Unfinished Symphony, a world in which more «intelligent» and sustainable economic growth models emerge as the world drives to a low carbon future, and a more fragmented scenario called Hard Rock, which explores the consequences of weaker and unsustainable economic growth with inward - looking policies.

The report underscores the importance of creating the right policy, regulatory, and institutional conditions to shift markets and drive investment toward getting more low - carbon energy services, more affordably, to more people.

«By analysing the potential impact of future carbon constraints driven by global climate change policies, our study shows a deterioration in the financial risk profiles for smaller oil companies that could lead to negative outlooks and downgrades,» said Michael Wilkins, head of environmental finance at Standard & Poor's.

A new «toolkit» of suggested climate policies looks politically feasible, but it's too complicated and not ambitious enough to drive a real move to a low - carbon economy.

24 October 2017 Every few years, New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity surveys economists who have expertise on climate change, and it always finds overwhelming support for putting a price on carbon to drive down emissions — support that ideologues on the right routinely dismiss, usually on unfounded «economic» grounds.

To do so, they should ensure a uniform and predictable cost of carbon, allow market prices to drive solutions, maximize transparency to stakeholders, reduce administrative complexity, promote global participation and easily adjust to future developments in climate science and policy consequences.

My colleague Matt Hourihan wrote a great review of the effect price has on technology change and found that price — especially the small to moderate carbon pricing and fuel taxes talked about within policy circles — will do nothing but drive incremental technology change.

This momentous switch from coal to lower - CO2 gas as a source of energy has done far more to drive down carbon dioxide emissions than any recent government climate policy,» he writes.

Health must be central to policies that stabilize climate change below dangerous levels, drive zero - carbon as well as zero - air pollution and prevent ecosystem disruptions.

In the study, Monier and his co-authors applied the IGSM framework to assess climate impacts under different climate - change scenarios — «Paris Forever,» a scenario in which Paris Agreement pledges are carried out through 2030, and then maintained at that level through 2100; and «2C,» a scenario with a global carbon tax - driven emissions reduction policy designed to cap global warming at 2 degrees Celsius by 2100.

Are there any warmists prepared to engage in seriously discussing the economic consequences of the carbon pricing and mandatory renewable energy policies they promote as the solution to «greenhouse driven global warming»?

Brulle defines the climate change counter-movement as the organized effort to prevent policies that will limit the carbon pollution emissions that drive man - made climate change.

Such a pathway is exceedingly difficult to achieve, given the current widespread absence of policies to drive rapid movement to carbon - free energies and the lifetime of energy infrastructure in place.

«What is driving [the price rise] is the increase in transport and distribution costs, the costs of operating the grid and, secondly, the other area is environmental and policy costs, feed - in tariffs, the cost of building the data centre for the smart meter programme, the carbon pricing strategies.

«It is clear that carbon pricing is a climate - critical policy that will be driving emissions reductions across the Ontario economy,» the paper stated.

While the majority of companies are out of the starting blocks and on the low - carbon path, clear policy intervention is needed to spur even greater ambition and help drive business over the below - 2 ˚C finish - line.»

Unfortunately, policy - driven demand for biodiesel is exceeding the limited supply of low - carbon biodiesel sources, diverting vegetable oils from food markets and other uses.

«New carbon - trading programmes are emerging in China and South Korea, and policy - makers in Europe are taking clear steps to ensure that carbon prices drive future emission reductions,» said Konrad Hanschmidt, head of carbon analysis at Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

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.

The report «identif [ies] the range of carbon prices that, together with other supportive policies, would deliver on the Paris climate targets agreed by nearly 200 countries in December 2015,» according to the council's press release, which was issued under the title, Leading Economists: A Strong Carbon Price Needed to Drive Large - Scale Climate Action.

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.

China's coal drive is part of a larger energy - driven investment policy that follows its attempt to reduce carbon emissions by clamping down on the coal industry and pledging to increase investments in renewables.

Together we catalyze business action to drive policy ambition and accelerate the transition to a low - carbon economy.

They thus pair national policy setting — in which countries determine their contributions in the context of their national priorities, circumstances and capabilities — with a global framework that drives collective action towards a zero - carbon, climate - resilient future.

Together we catalyze business leadership to drive policy ambition and accelerate the transition to a low - carbon economy.

A year after the Paris Agreement was sealed by 195 countries in the French capital, we look at the rapid deployment of green and clean technologies around the world, and assess the policies that could drive yet further private sector investments in the low carbon economy.

Climate change continues to drive energy policy, despite the fact that there is no way to reconcile eradicating energy poverty in much of the world with reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

I quote from a research paper published in 2010 («Towards real energy economics: energy policy driven by life - cycle carbon emission», Energy Policpolicy driven by life - cycle carbon emission», Energy PolicyPolicy 38):

Everyone knows that politically driven policies are costing taxpayers billions while providing only marginal carbon reductions — but we need leaders who will do something about it!

The European demand for wood pellets is driven by an EU policy that deems biomass use to be carbon - neutral.

Our federal policy platform has been successful at getting clean tech sectors off the ground, and state - level policies like the popular renewable portfolio standards (RPS) have been effective at driving the deployment of the most mature low - carbon technologies.

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.