Sentences with phrase «carbon price per unit»

Coal is more carbon - intensive than oil, and oil more so than natural gas, so the carbon price per unit of energy would be highest for coal, next for oil, and lowest for natural gas.

Not exact matches

Burning coal emits the highest amount of CO2 per unit of energy it delivers, so coal is first on the firing line when it comes to emissions regulation and carbon pricing.

As alternatives are exploited — bringing economies of scale into play, to make them less expensive per unit — demand for carbon - based fuels, solvents and components of processes that end up in the atmosphere drops, resulting in lower prices for carbon products and eventually resulting in a point of diminishing returns to further price level increases in the carbon cycle fee..

Burning coal emits the highest amount of CO2 per unit of energy it delivers, so regulation and carbon pricing hurts the coal industry most.

Such a dramatic increase in the scale of production for biochar would reduce per - unit production costs, lowering the price of biochar closer to what farmers and carbon markets could bear.