Sentences with phrase «direct tax on carbon»

But what about a direct tax on carbon that goes up each year?

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In Alberta and B.C., GST is applied on top of the carbon tax on direct consumer fossil - fuel purchases, such as gasoline, as well as on products where a business has added some or all of the cost of the carbon tax to the cost of their good or service.

In his letter, Peter Ryan suggested tackling carbon emissions by making the consumer pay via a direct tax on goods...

He called the short - term investments a prelude to the larger task of placing a price on carbon to discourage its use as an energy source, either through a direct tax or a cap - and - trade system or both.

We need a lively debate on whether to leave these kinds of climate science efforts behind, and focus instead on socio - political measures to «hit the brakes hard» — whether those be carbon taxes, carbon rationing (probably the most direct and effective means), or whatever.

The Niskanen Center, which calls itself a libertarian think tank, has a Center for Climate Science directed by Dr. Joseph Majkut, a climatologist who previously served on the staff of Brulle's ally Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse.52 The think tank R Street is so well known for its friendliness to a carbon tax that when we published a study critical of the carbon tax, we invited it to contribute a defense of the tax.53 And as the present study goes to press, prominent Republicans at the Hoover Institution like George Schultz and James Baker are advocating vigorously for a carbon tax.54

And to ensure revenues raised from such a tax are indeed directed to investment, and to assist those on lower incomes who spend a higher proportion of their income on energy, a carbon tax should be offset by tax reductions in other areas to become revenue neutral for government.

So I think it is reasonable to assume that» energy diversification» as you suggest will occur: we will gradually move away from being a primarily carbon - based economy, and this will occur quite naturally, without imposing direct or indirect taxes on carbon.

In other words carbon taxes and renewables are more important than direct action on planting trees and soil sequestration.

«Optimal policy,» they found, «relies less on a carbon tax, and even more so on a direct encouragement of clean energy technologies.»

Xenophon, a sitting senator who was re-elected on Saturday, told Guardian Australia he would not vote for the abolition of the carbon tax until the Coalition's alternative Direct Action plan had been changed to ensure it could meet Australia's emission reduction targets.

So on the margin, it's not worthwhile to reduce emissions as much as the textbook calls for, because the environmental benefit now has to compete with the direct economic damage of the carbon tax, as well as the indirect economic damage coming from the tax interaction effect.

The Guardian's Lenore Taylor has pointed out that while the Coalition is bringing back the «carbon tax» scare campaign of 2013, its own scheme would have to draw on the «safeguard mechanism» component of Direct Action — which is itself a disguised ETS — to have any chance of meeting the targets.

The way to «spend less money on electricity and gasoline» is sure as hell not to slap a direct or indirect carbon tax on motor fuels or fossil fuel generated electrical power.

Though it is very unlikely that any tax would ever be used to reduce another, a direct carbon excise tax on fossil fuel emissions at first does seem to make sense.

China's Largest Companies To Face Direct Carbon Tax By 2015 China's Economic Information Daily says plans for a new carbon tax on the nation's largest energy - consuming companies, to be implemented by 2015 — and remember that China as a whole is now the world's largest energy - consuming natiTax By 2015 China's Economic Information Daily says plans for a new carbon tax on the nation's largest energy - consuming companies, to be implemented by 2015 — and remember that China as a whole is now the world's largest energy - consuming natitax on the nation's largest energy - consuming companies, to be implemented by 2015 — and remember that China as a whole is now the world's largest energy - consuming nation.