Sentences with phrase «carbon pricing schemes»

«The campaign would be broad - based but also target particular regions where the vulnerability to the impact of the proposed carbon pricing scheme is high,» the document says.

It seems like incorporating black carbon into carbon pricing schemes could be problematic.

Together with massive investment in renewables and efficiency, the authors recommend a nationwide carbon pricing scheme be deployed within the coming years, which they say can be implemented without damaging growth.

David Newman of the World Biogas Association argues the global march of carbon pricing schemes will have big implications for the waste industry and beyond

Any serious carbon pricing scheme needs a border carbon adjustment mechanism in order to maintain a level playin field and to prevent carbon leakage.

Including emissions that are extremely cheap and easy to avoid in carbon pricing schemes certainly seems capable of causing disruption and strategic behaviour («accidentally» producing HFC - 23 when you can be paid to destroy it, etc).

But a review of studies regarding carbon pricing schemes from around the world by economist Tom Tietenberg concludes that «they typically find that the cost savings from shifting to [taxes or cap - and - trade] are considerable, but less than would have been achieved if the final outcome had been fully cost effective.»

It is why carbon pricing schemes are highly unlikely to achieve what is intended and highly likely there will be serious deleterious consequences.

According to a new report published on World Bank Group on carbon pricing, by 2015, the number of implemented or planned carbon pricing schemes around the world has almost doubled since 2012.

The federal floor price on carbon could eliminate up to 90 megatonnes of carbon dioxide by 2022, depending on the specific carbon pricing schemes different provinces and territories put in place, according to a new analysis released yesterday by Environment and Climate Change Canada.

The move to «ax the tax» — as Prime Minister Tony Abbott is fond of saying — makes Australia the first country in the world to abolish a functioning carbon pricing scheme.

Because energy prices affect every single America, everyone has a stake in the issue of whether the government imposes additional restrictions on fossil - fuel use, including carbon pricing schemes such as those proposed by PRG.

I read and hear politicians making «false and misleading claims» about climate change almost daily, particularly with regard to what federal and provincial carbon pricing schemes will actually accomplish, as opposed to what our governments are claiming they will accomplish.

Both the provinces of coastal British Columbia and oil - sands - rich Alberta have implemented some version of a carbon tax or a hybrid carbon pricing scheme.

It's just a matter of which carbon pricing scheme we use to capture them — either the carbon tax, or a California - led regional cap and trade system that B.C. is still considering joining.

In July, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled a national carbon tax on that country's 500 worst polluters, after her predecessor was turfed from office when his own carbon pricing scheme withered on the vine.

That is helpful in explaining the challenges / futility of a sensible carbon pricing scheme.

This question gives me an opportunity to make a serious point about carbon pricing schemes ETS or tax).

Check out these introductory videos where Robert Reich and our own Angel Collinson explain carbon pricing schemes to you!

Michael Le Page describes the international community implementing a global carbon pricing scheme and imposing carbon tariffs on goods produced...

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).

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen has come to the Paris climate talks to push his radical alternative to current carbon pricing schemes.

A source said even though the details of the carbon price scheme were still unknown, the campaign was in a stage of «advanced development».

It will focus on «the adverse impact of the carbon pricing scheme on the competitiveness of Australia's export and import - competing industries».

Michael Le Page describes the international community implementing a global carbon pricing scheme and imposing carbon tariffs on goods produced in the US (8 April, p 22).

The more complicated a carbon pricing scheme becomes, the easier it is to do hidden favours, and the harder it is to transparently assess what is going on.

The government claims that the carbon pricing scheme has been ineffective, although CO2emissions fell by 0.8 % in the first calendar year of its operation − the largest fall in 24 years.

The survey indicates pervasive uncertainty about the future of Australia's carbon pricing scheme, but also a strong expectation that carbon pricing will be a feature of Australia's economic policy framework in the medium to long term.

The decision had cross-party support in the Senate vote, passing by 39 votes to 32, with only the Labor and Green parties voting against repealing the carbon pricing scheme they introduced, and which took effect two years ago.

«The study shows that electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm at a cost of AUD 80 / MWh (USD 83), compared to AUD 143 / MWh from a new coal plant or AUD 116 / MWh from a new baseload gas plant, including the cost of emissions under the Gillard government's carbon pricing scheme.

That framing costs as a foregone - gain increased the amount people were prepared to reduce emissions is noteworthy because public messages about climate policy impacts typically frame the costs of reducing emissions as a loss [13]-- a pattern confirmed by our analysis of newspaper communications regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme.

On January 29, 2014, we searched Factiva — an online research tool for accessing content from different sources (viz. newspapers, journals, and magazines)-- for newspaper articles containing statements regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme — commonly referred to as the «carbon tax».

Disagreement over how much and how fast to cut emissions was the central sticking point in those negotiations (and, by the way, the reason why the carbon pricing scheme starts with a fixed price period, or «carbon tax» — to allow time for further investigation and debate around targets before starting the trading scheme).

He was the perfect front man when the mining industry wanted to spend big destroying Labor's mining tax and win massive concessions from the carbon price scheme.

No global carbon pricing scheme is going to succeed, including Ross McKittrick's.

The government argues the carbon pricing scheme has been ineffective, but national emissions have actually fallen by 0.8 % in the first calendar year of its operation, the largest fall in 24 years of records.

If we go for an interim solution like a carbon pricing scheme we are assuming our emissions target will not increase: that's a big gamble.

Although the carbon pricing scheme has its warts, the negotiations between Labor, the Greens and the Independents have also produced some genuinely positive outcomes.

The carbon pricing scheme announced today is part of a wider suite of policies to support R&D and investment in renewable energy, boost energy efficiency and improve carbon uptake on the land.

Now there's also a third difference and this is possibly the most important one: My plan mandates revenue neutrality for the $ 100 per tonne federal carbon tax, and it incentivizes provinces to make their carbon pricing schemes — whether it's a cap - and - trade system or a carbon tax — revenue neutral as well.