Sentences with phrase «dollars per ton»

It is likely that the first commercial - scale DAC projects will cost several hundreds of dollars per ton of concentrated CO2, but as manufacturing improves over time, these costs are likely to come down significantly, especially if DAC is manufactured modularly like many startups are attempting to do.

For this reason and others, such as the choice of social discount rate, the estimates of the SCC range from near zero to hundreds of dollars per ton of carbon.

If a carbon tax of x dollars per ton is levied and all the revenue raised is given back to consumers by way of rebates how is this inflationary overall?

Some of the carbon taxes range anywhere from 20 - 100 dollars per ton of CO2, which are actually quite meaningful, and in some cases larger than what we would consider here in the United States.

The current price is around 10 dollars per ton, but this fluctuates.

From the article: «The tax, which rose from 10 Canadian dollars per ton of carbon dioxide in 2008 to 30 dollars by 2012, the equivalent of about $ 22.20 in current United States dollars, reduced emissions by 5 to 15 percent with «negligible effects on aggregate economic performance,» according to a study last year by economists at Duke University and the University of Ottawa.»

This is not really a unique situation since New York City, having closed their Fresh Kills Landfill in March 2001 which handled about 3.5 million tons of garbage annually, now pays one hundred ($ 100) dollars per ton to ship their trash out of the state of New York.

The tipping fee (19), usually expressed in dollars per ton, is the cost of «unloading or dumping solid wastes at a landfill, transfer station, recycling center, waste to energy facility, and other types of facilities.»

Multiplying the total budget amounts by the observed emission reductions dollars per ton benefits is all that is necessary to estimate how much CO2e is expected to be reduced.

Comparison of the RCP4.5 to other 4.5 W / m2 stabilization scenarios in literature for a global population assumptions, b global GDP assumptions, c emissions of CO2 from all energy and industrial sources, and d price of carbon in 2005 US dollars per ton of CO2

Given uncertainty and subjectivity, credible estimates can run from a few dollars per ton of CO2 to hundreds of dollars per ton.

Hope concludes that, if we're in a low - sensitivity world, that would imply an SCC of about $ 65 dollars per ton of CO2.

First, it's an extremely expensive, and relatively ineffective method of cutting carbon — conservative estimates place it as costing $ 150 taxpayer dollars per ton of CO2.

Market value: billions of dollars per ton.

Still, economists predict such a system would result in a price that averages in the tens of dollars per ton of emissions.

Processing and safely storing waste from the chemical, pharmaceutical and other industries can cost hundreds, even thousands, of dollars per ton — which makes illegal disposal highly profitable.

Not exact matches

What it measures: The price of copper on the London Metals Exchange, in U.S. dollars per pound or metric ton.

Precious and Industrial Metals Inflation concerns, geopolitical tensions and interest - rate levels, especially real yields, contributed to a 1.7 % rise in the spot price of gold (to US$ 1,325 per troy ounce), as did swings in the US dollar.1 Gold prices traded within the US$ 1,305 — 1,360 range throughout the period, reached 18 - month highs in March and capped their third straight quarterly gain, a feat not seen since 2011.1 Haven demand was a key support as exchange - traded gold holdings of 2,269 metric tons (mt) neared a five - year high.1 The Fed is widely expected to boost borrowing costs, and investors have been carefully watching the central bank's statements to see whether it targets more rate increases in 2018 than previously projected.

This means that settlements for Russian oil deliveries to China, which have reached 60 million tons per year, can be done without using the dollar.

For instance, over the last one year, cocoa price on the London Stock Exchange has dropped sharply from about 3,000 dollars per metric ton to 1,800 dollars.

A billion - dollar scheme to reduce household emissions in the Czech Republic costs five times as much per ton of carbon dioxide (CO2) as some European industries need to spend to achieve the same cuts, government data showed.

The policy shift would see the cost of carbon permits fall from the planned A$ 25.40 ($ 23.09) per metric ton from July 2014 to around A$ 6 per metric ton, Rudd said, saving big businesses billions of dollars in carbon costs.

Current cost estimates for sending the gas deep underground are in the range of tens of dollars per metric ton of CO2, so sequestering one gigaton (Gt) a year — roughly one sixth of U.S. emissions — would cost tens of billions of dollars annually.

During the emissions trading scheme's trial period, which began in 2005 and ends later this year, confusion in the market caused prices to gyrate from almost $ 40 per ton of CO2 to about a dollar today.

And although Alberta currently boasts a carbon price of $ 15 per metric ton, it is not enough — at less than a dollar per barrel — to keep greenhouse gas pollution from the tar sands in check.

Measured in dollars per pound of performance or horsepower per ton of excitement, the Acura NSX is one of the world's finest sports cars.

Even if the extra payment wasn't a ton of money (ranging from $ 50 to $ 200 per month over the years), I thought these payments could add up to thousands of dollars over time (which they did).

Economists and policy makers used the metric to place a dollar cost on the economic impact of planet - warming carbon dioxide pollution: about $ 36 per ton.

I've been buying the variable visa GCs from our local City Market for over a year, got 1 point per dollar, and not only did I load up on points, it also saved me tons at the pump.

He then described Mr. Bush's chosen way of measuring progress — by tracking the amount of carbon dioxide emissions per unit of gross domestic product (tons per dollar)-- and said the country was on track to reach Mr. Bush's goal, set in 2002, of an 18 percent drop in greenhouse «intensity» by 2012.

If the carbon debt of 568 tons were to be valued at $ 40 per ton, the total owed to the poor countries would amount of $ 23 trillion dollars, implying climate debt payments of about $ 600 billion per year over the next 40 years.

At the current U.S. - Canadian dollar exchange rate (1.00 / 0.80), and converting from tonnes to short tons, the B.C. tax now equates to around $ 22 (U.S.) per ton of CO2.

All current Washington state carbon tax proposals lag behind British Columbia, whose carbon tax rate will be climbing to $ 50 (in Canadian dollars) per ton by 2021.

Global emissions prices rise to about $ 6 per ton of CO2 (in current dollars) in 2025 and to about $ 20 per ton by 2050.

Furthermore, from 2009 - 2011, the average cost of coal (in dollars per short ton) increased 7.5 percent in the United States, much faster than the 3.2 percent national average electricity price increase cited by Taylor.

To do so, federal agencies use figures from the government's Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, which are estimates of some of the climate change damages suffered by society, expressed as a dollar figure per metric ton of CO2.

What has set solar apart from other high dollar - per - ton GHG abatement schemes is non-carbon-focused regulations (be it some combination of net - metering, renewable portfolio standards, PACE financing, etc. designed to specifically support renewables).

The estimates range from 54 euros (54 US dollars) per ton of CO2 captured, to $ 600 per ton.