Sentences with phrase «carbon pricing scenarios»

It sets out to model carbon pricing scenarios, seeking to determine which policy design leads to the greatest aggregate social welfare under various political constraints.

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Key finding: innovation + policy = economic growth A third scenario includes a $ 30 per ton price on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, redistributed to taxpayers through proportional tax payments.

A scenario of deep and fast de-carbonization will require carbon prices much higher than what is legislated in Australia or anywhere else, and / or drastic regulatory intervention.

The 2016 updated and 2020 2D scenarios apply a conservative carbon price of $ 5 / ton and $ 10 / ton, respectively.

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).

In a new report, experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists examine different future energy scenarios and find that it is possible not only to scale back energy's reliance on water, but also to reduce carbon emissions and provide reliable power at a reasonable price.

Both those scenarios involve trading — and a carbon price.

Comparison of the RCP4.5 to other 4.5 W / m2 stabilization scenarios in literature for a global population assumptions, b global GDP assumptions, c emissions of CO2 from all energy and industrial sources, and d price of carbon in 2005 US dollars per ton of CO2

Differences in carbon prices can be attributed to differences in reference scenario emissions, and thus the level of abatement required, along with differences in the cost of abatement technologies.

In the face of uncertainty about future policies to address climate change, companies are using internal carbon pricing in their strategic planning to manage regulatory risk and explore future scenarios for potential investments.

New York / London, April 23 — The Carbon Tracker Initiative and Energy Transition Advisors today jointly publish a «blueprint» showing the benefit of fossil fuel companies stress testing their businesses using a set of low carbon, low price scenarios.

Treasury's «high price» carbon forecast, which takes into account a 450ppm scenario, puts the price of carbon at more than $ 50 / t by 2016, and more than $ 80 / t by 2025, and then continuing to rise sharply in future years.

So if there is a real, though unquantifiably small, possibility of catastrophic climate change, and if we would ideally want some technological hedges as insurance against this unlikely scenario, and if raising the price of carbon to induce private economic actors to develop the technologies would be an enormously more expensive means of accomplishing this than would be advisable, then what, if anything, should we do about the danger?

5 Aug: Australian: Sid Maher: Land for carbon reforestation to take big cut But if the carbon price started at $ 47 a tonne, under a more ambitious scenario, the report estimates more than 60 million tonnes of carbon could be shed through plantation forests and carbon plantings by 2021... The modelling was released as Resources Minister Martin Ferguson named three leading corporate advisory firms to help the Gillard government negotiate a billion - dollar closure of a brown - coal electricity generator as it seeks to cut carbon emissions.

Only substantial emission prices have the potential to address the worst case scenarios, because only when the market is enabled to value carbon sequestration will that activity grow to the needed scale.

Even under a modest carbon - pricing scenario, Afghanistan could be expected to earn $ 570 million over the first ten years of the project under existing production profiles.

The letter emphasizes, «Effective disclosure of the market risks from climate change would focus on how low - carbon scenarios would impact commodity demand and price and include the knock - on effects of those shifts on future capital expenditure plans, liquidity and reserves valuations, if any.»

By the time the president made the decision, oil prices were so low that the «unlikely» low oil price scenario in the State Department Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)-- where oil prices fell below $ 75 a barrel — had actually come to be and thus there was no shying away from the fact that the pipeline would cause the equivalent of over 6 million passengers cars worth of carbon pollution every year for at least 50 years.

To summarize, most of these economic analyses agree that a carbon pricing policy will reduce U.S. GDP - growth by less than 1 % over the next 10 — 40 years as compared to an unrealistically optimistic BAU scenario in which climate change does not impact the economy.

Most scenario studies collected for this assessment that are based on the idealized assumptions that all countries of the world begin mitigation immediately, there is a single global carbon price applied to well functioning markets, and key technologies are available, find that meeting a 430 480 ppm CO2eq goal by century's end would entail a reduction in the amount global consumers spend of 1 4 % in 2030, 2 6 % in 2050, and 3 11 % in 2100 relative to what would happen without mitigation.

While these spillover scenarios could entail a variety of serious costs to the United States the question for New York is whether the surety of increased costs of a price on carbon to our wholesale electric market is appropriate relative to those speculative effects.

In its projections, the Department of Climate Change and Energy Efficiency also describes a sensitivity scenario where the carbon price is around $ 12 in 2015.

In fact, so modest are the economic effects of even strong climate action that when they are depicted on a chart it is quite difficult to pick out the difference between the «No carbon price» scenario and the «High price» scenario, the gap that the Telegraph, and Minister Hunt, claim would «shatter» the economy.

Well, he looked at the real GDP figures (the figures accompanying Chart 3.32) and saw that the difference between the «No carbon price» and the «High price» scenarios in the year 2030 is only $ 64 billion.

Victor shows that if we introduce new policies into the model, like new measures of economic progress; a carbon price; more generous social policies; limits on material, energy, waste and land use; a shorter working week; etc., then you can actually reduce poverty and unemployment in a zero - growth scenario.

Under a low natural gas price scenario, 17 states need lift no finger to meet CPP emission targets set for 2030 and intrastate carbon emission trading prices are low.

Al Gore and David Blood, Generation Investment: «Stranded assets are those that would be unprofitable under certain scenarios, which include the enforcement of a fair price on carbon and water, or improved regulation of labour standards in emerging economies.

-LSB-...] In our central scenario, taking into account the impact of measures already announced by governments to improve energy efficiency, support renewables, reduce fossil - fuel subsidies and, in some cases, to put a price on carbon, energy - related CO2 emissions still rise by 20 % to 2035.

It has been argued that a scenario phasing out carbon emissions fast enough to stabilize climate this century, limiting further warming to a maximum of several tenths of a degree Celsius, is still possible, but it would require a rising price on carbon emissions sufficient to spur transition to a clean energy future without burning all fossil fuels (33).