Sentences with phrase «constraints on carbon pricing»

We have to grapple with the political constraints on carbon pricing and think about how they can be overcome.

Not exact matches

S&P says future carbon constraints need to be factored into credit assessments for the oil sector — along with uncertain future oil prices and rising operational costs — and financial models that rely on past financial performance are no longer adequate.

«If we are successful, we will establish the right kind of multilateral framework that will impose constraint on countries and help create standards through taxation, quotas and the price of carbon,» said Lapouge.

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.

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.

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.

More broadly, as long as the tax is beneath the SCC, alternative uses of the revenue can a) achieve cost - effective emission reductions beyond what the tax achieves on its own, and / or b) loosen political constraints, allowing the carbon price to rise.

A straightforward matter such as requesting the IMO to proceed to design a levy, to put a price on carbon consistent with its own principles and that of «common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities» with a rebate system has, we hear, been made unmanageable by constraints behind a discussion of a broader framework.

Among the issues spurring the complete streets movement are the obesity epidemic, rising gasoline prices, the urgent need to cut carbon emissions, air pollution, and mobility constraints on aging baby boomers.