Sentences with phrase «carbon pricing system»

Fortunately, some governments have listened to these economists and implemented carbon pricing systems, as discussed above, but more action is necessary.

Any global carbon pricing system is thus going to have to be fair enough to get them on board.

So how do we ensure that the countries with national carbon pricing systems keep and strengthen them, and convince the countries without such national systems to implement them?

First, a new carbon pricing system, where it is possible at all, will begin with a relatively low price.

So far a few individual states have implemented carbon pricing systems.

A 2016 World Bank report found that of the various carbon pricing systems in use around the world, «about three quarters» of all emissions covered are priced at less than $ 10 per ton.

And even if other carbon pricing systems do take off, a complementary «pre-pay» policy could prove beneficial for stimulating early commercial demand for carbon removal solutions.

My reply to the reader serves as a question for you, as well: «I'd love to see the «Choices» reports go a layer deeper, and examine what would be required to create «some form of substantial and sustained carbon pricing system...» given both our politics and the reality that such a system would not extend beyond developed - country borders in time to be meaningful.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailVICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's release of draft legislative proposals for the federal carbon pricing system: «The federal government has laid out a comprehensive approach to ensuring carbon pollution is priced across Canada, while also protecting industrial competitiveness.

Executive Summary Around the world, governments are establishing carbon pricing systems to put a price - tag on greenhouse gas emissions and incentivize more climate friendly practices.

It is therefore significant that today's announcement acknowledged the link between an effective carbon pricing system and the need for legislated emissions reduction targets.

The always - excellent folks at the Sightline Institute have done the world a favor by pulling all the world's carbon pricing systems into one place... (See their map).

If Congress produces a flaccid carbon pricing system — full of exceptions and handouts to industry — will the EPA have any power to toughen it, or force Congress to do so?

National and subnational economies have started implementing carbon pricing systems unilaterally, from the bottom up.

Even the most developed carbon pricing system, the EU ETS includes on 49 % of EU GHG emissions.

«Carbon pricing: Researchers with the think tank Resources For the Future have a new paper that explores the benefits and potential drawbacks of linking separate regional carbon pricing systems (using California and the northeast's Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as a test case).

Disruptive ideas circulated the room; for example Ted Halstead from the US Climate Leadership Council explained how there is an opportunity for a first - mover advantage for a country to set up an ambitious carbon pricing system with aggressive border carbon adjustment compelling trade partners to adjust.

Multiple lines of scientific evidence overwhelmingly show that human greenhouse gas emissions are the dominant cause of the current global warming, that the consequences of that warming will on the whole be bad, and that there are cost - effective solutions to the problem, of which carbon pricing systems are a critical component.

But states often serve as laboratories of democracy, and a successful carbon tax in Massachusetts could help to broaden support for a national or even global carbon pricing system — if powerful fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil get out of the way.

This is a key factor that differentiates a revenue - neutral carbon tax system and its economic impacts from other carbon pricing systems.

A reader made points similar to those you make here the other day, and alluded to the America's Climate Choices reports from the National Academies, one of which concluded: «Creating some form of substantial and sustained carbon pricing system is likely to be of the utmost importance in stimulating the development and deployment of new technologies and approaches to reducing [greenhouse gas] emissions.»

Substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions (ideally, through a national carbon pricing system and strategic complementary policies)

To achieve this, the federal government committed to implementing a national carbon pricing «backstop» that would apply in any province or territory that does not have a carbon pricing system in place by 2018 that is consistent with the federal scheme.

I would like to pursue, as much as possible, to increase our knowledge of carbon price and future emissions, and our knowledge on reducing the institutional barriers to adopting a carbon price system.

To do so, it's essentially enacting a carbon pricing system on its own operations.

Anyone who thinks that a carbon pricing system can do the job by itself (without technologies) OR that technologies can do the job by themselves (without motivated markets and individuals) is missing a vital half of the package and is making a big mistake in logic.

A «pre-pay» carbon pricing system would have a number of significant challenges to implement.

But the development of carbon removal solutions — i.e. processes that remove and sequester carbon from the atmosphere — could provide an opportunity for a new type of «pre-pay» carbon pricing system that avoids many of the pitfalls of today's carbon pricing proposals.

Regardless of the mechanism chosen, any carbon pricing system implemented should be Revenue Neutral so that the government does not become dependent on the revenue from the fee, tax or trade credits.

A carbon pricing system would level the playing field.

They will be millions of individual responses to the economic incentives created by a carbon pricing system.

However, their success depends on whether opposition leader Tony Abbott succeeds in his promise to repeal the carbon pricing system, if he is elected as Prime Minister in 2013.

Australia for example has done quite well, having implemented a carbon pricing system, renewable energy target, and energy efficiency standards on a national scale, with national transportation efficiency standards planned.

If one thing is clear, it is this: We will be a lot better off in the long run with a carbon pricing system in place.

Since these conservatives have successfully blocked attempts to implement a cap and trade or other carbon pricing system, we are left with government regulation (via the EPA and its endangerment finding) as the only alternative to reduce GHG emissions from large emitters.

Yet it is highly unlikely a global carbon pricing system will be implemented because negotiators recognize the high cost for negligible benefit for participants until there is a global system with near full participation (all human - caused GHG emissions from all countries).

The program also created thousands of jobs (18,000 job years — that is, the equivalent of 18,000 full - time jobs that last one year), and individuals and businesses who took advantage of the energy efficiency programs funded by the carbon pricing system actually saw their energy bills drop.

Another issue, which is actually quite practical for policy, is that carbon pricing systems are fundamentally short sighted.

What is your opinion of the carbon pricing system introduced by the government last year?

In terms of climate change, there is no more practical approach than implementing a carbon pricing system so that the costs of climate change are reflected in the price of the products which cause them.

Emissions leakage occurs when sources outside of a carbon pricing system increase economic activity and associated emissions as a result of that system.

In modeling terms, this operates as a constraint on the «decrease in energy consumer surplus,» i.e., how much more consumers — both residential and commercial consumers of fossil fuel energy — have to pay, on net, under the carbon pricing system.

Jenkins and Karplus model various ways of designing a carbon pricing system to test how they perform under these political constraints.

In the months since then, Tucker has become an active proponent for climate legislation: He works with groups like the Citizens Climate Lobby, writes letters to his state representative in defense of the EPA, openly calls for a carbon pricing system, and continues to engage his libertarian friends on the issue.

As Roberts writes, «how the Obama EPA chooses to play this card will have huge, huge effects, not only on its efforts to reduce emissions generally but on its efforts to build support for a carbon pricing system specifically.