Sentences with phrase «differences on carbon tax»

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Australia's carbon tax plan is flawed not because it ignores exports, it relies on dodgy offsets, makes promises that can not be met or incorrectly suggests that pricing incentives will make a meaningful difference (though all of these things are the case).

When asked about specific proposals to reduce climate change, most Democrats (90 %) and smaller majorities of Republicans (65 %) say that restrictions on power plant emissions would make a difference in reducing climate change, as would tax incentives encouraging businesses to reduce their carbon emissions (85 % and 65 %, respectively).

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.»

The difference between a shadow price and a carbon tax is that the shadow price is applied to projected emissions of future investments, while a carbon tax is applied on current emissions.

Actually, I don't want to get into a long thread on carbon taxes (Richmond's in front of Sydney), but my main point of difference is that you assume that any carbon price is necessarily a significant burden on an economy, but what if carbon pricing is part of a broader tax reform agenda with a shift in taxes from, say, income and company taxes to carbon pricing?

ps Adam: on fuel tax as carbon policy, I guess we're already running that experiment, if one looks at the current differences internationally.

On (a), Hansen seems totally confused in thinking there is a big difference between auctioned permits and a carbon tax.