Sentences with phrase «effective emissions policies»

It also assumes that countries adopt the most cost - effective emissions policies possible — which is far from a given.

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There's also the unsupported assertion that an effective GHG emission policy would benefit the manufacturing sector.

If your condition for GHG policy is that you must impose the same price on all sectors of the economy because you want to be cost - effective, that rules out higher prices on some sectors where deep emissions reductions are possible, or lower prices in more politically sensitive areas to ensure you get a policy in place at all.

If you're worried about climate change, your first concern should be effective policy (by how much will this reduce emissions?)

Third, governments must accept that real leverage on emissions will require a combination of market - based climate policies (such as carbon taxes and smarter trading schemes) and a set of measures to support indirect, but effective and economical pressure to cut carbon and adopt new technologies.

While these deforestation programs and policies proved effective, Brazil took additional action through the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation plus pro-forest activities (REDD +) program in cooperation with Norway.

Vehicle efficiency improvements via effective standards and policies could reduce annual CO2 e emissions from the US, China, and the EU by 1.3 Gt at a savings of about $ 135 billion per year by 2030.

Which is why setting a strong base of effective policy and regulations that not only reduce emissions but also encourage new, climate friendly business models are key to the region's sustainable development.

The nonpartisan Georgetown Climate Center, based at Georgetown Law, seeks to advance effective climate, energy, and transportation policies in the United States — policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and help communities adapt to climate change.

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In a wide - ranging December 2013 study, conducted to support Our Children's Trust, a group advancing legal challenges to lax greenhouse gas emissions policies on behalf of minors, Hansen called for a «human tipping point» — essentially, a social revolution — as one of the most effective ways of combating climate change, though he still favors a bilateral carbon tax agreed upon by the United States and China as the best near - term climate policy.

An effective national climate policy must include several key elements; one effective approach would be a well - designed cap - and - trade program for carbon emissions.

A new assessment by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concludes that the world community could slow and then reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) over the next several decades by exploiting cost - effective policies and current and emerging technologies.

The only public policy pathway which could possibly be effective in greatly reducing America's carbon emissions passes directly through the Executive Branch and the Environmental Protection Agency.

Companies have the opportunity to work with governments to help shape the most effective policy framework possible, ensuring long - term profitability for companies and a clear path to national and international emissions reduction.

Subtitle F: Transmission Planning -(Sec. 151) Amends the Federal Power Act to establish a federal policy for transmission planning that calls for regional electric grid planning that facilitates the deployment of renewable and other zero - carbon and low - carbon energy sources for generating electricity to reduce GHG emissions while ensuring reliability, reducing congestion, ensuring cyber-security, minimizing environmental harm, and providing for cost - effective electricity services throughout the United States.

Similarly, effective policies on greenhouse gas emissions should emphasize using fossil - fuel energy more efficiently and cleanly.

It also notes that while few IEA Member countries have achieved their commitment to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2000, all are actively developing new policies with the aim of reducing emissions in the most cost - effective manner.

These measures include emission reduction targets, policies that put an effective price on carbon, energy and transportation policies, financing mechanisms, measures and financing to support adaptation, and corporate disclosure policies.

Alex Hanafi is Senior Manager of Multilateral Climate Strategy at EDF, where he coordinates a range of research and advocacy programs designed to promote effective policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the globe.

Hansen then lays out the case for why he believes a carbon fee - and - dividend policy is preferable to an emission cap - and - trade approach, both for U.S. domestic policy and for achieving an effective international accord.

Experts at RFF work with state and federal decisionmakers to help craft practical and effective policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A new report «Mapping REDD + and Land Use Financial Flows in Brazil» by research organizations Forest Trends and IDESAM shows how over US$ 2.2 billion in REDD + funds have been used by Brazil to implement deforestation policies, and highlights new ways to make these investments more effective at reducing emissions, including by making payments directly available to the stakeholders who are implementing the deforestation policies such as subnational governments, farmers, local communities and indigenous Peoples of the Amazon.

In the conclusion to his «Plan B» chapter (p 228), Bob Carter writes: «It is therefore time to move away from stale «he - says - she - says» arguments about whether human carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous warming, and on to designing effective policies of hazard management for all climate change, based on adaptation responses that are tailored for individual countries or regions... By their very nature, strategies that can cope with the dangers and vagaries of natural climate change will readily cope with human - caused change too should it ever become manifest.»

Coming in under the target had less to do with effective emission reduction policies than the extraordinarily generous deal Australia extracted at the Kyoto conference in 1997 (concessions other leaders called a «disgrace»).

For example, theory and bottom up modelling suggest that some energy efficiency policies can deliver CO2 emission reductions at negative cost, but we need ex ‐ post policy evaluation to establish whether they really do and whether the measures are as effective as predicted by ex ‐ ante assessments.

In the absence of effective policy, by 2020 Australia's emissions are expected to be 17 % higher than they were in 2000, so cutting them to 15 % below by 2020 is a considerable task, but one the Authority, after examining the emissions reduction opportunities available, believes is achievable at modest cost.

Although economic analyses can provide policy - makers with valuable information such as which technologies will achieve ethically determined goals at lowest cost, thereby providing criteria for making remedies cost - effective, there are serious ethical problems with cost - benefit analyses used prescriptively to set emissions reductions targets.

To help policymakers and other decision makers develop effective strategies for managing and reducing GHG emissions through a better understanding of the emissions impacts of policies and actions

ExxonMobil believes that effective policies to address climate change will put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and will:

«Among the obvious problems are the failure to cost key policies, the effective abandonment of the 5 % emissions reduction target and bogus assumptions about an economic dividend from the removal of the carbon price.

No policy to abate global warming by controlling CO2 emissions would prove cost - effective solely on grounds of the welfare benefit from climate mitigation.

My original point to Paul was that I could not think of policies that were effective in lowering CO2 emissions over the last few years that would not have been done as a part of business as usual.

But, because of global interconnections, helping China reduce its production emissions may be just as effective as domestic policies focusing on consumption.

For this reason, proponents of strong climate change policies should work consciously to build and sustain a social movement to aggressively reduce GHG emissions mindful of what works to make social movements arise, become effective, and be sustained..

Even under the most effective policy implementation and optimistic technology and forest sink scenarios, we expect US emissions to be 23 % below 2005 levels that year — leaving a 220 - 350 million metric ton gap.

In 2014, due to the policies of a government democratically elected by the people of my homeland, Australia's emissions increased following the repeal of an effective carbon tax.

New analysis shows that an energy transition based on strong renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, together with a vigorous carbon emissions trading program, would constitute a cost - effective pathway, or «Clean Path Case,» for Illinois.

Its most likely that both Rudd and Obama, running on responsible but effective carbon emission cutting policies, will win resounding electoral victories in 2010 - 12.

Below are three easy and cost - effective ways policymakers and public institutions can reduce their HFC emissions and lead by example to strengthen policy linkages between climate and health:

An effective fossil energy policy should include a tax on carbon emissions... Fuel taxes should encourage conservation, but with rebates to taxpayers so that the government revenue from the tax does not increase.

The world will face a 50 per cent increase in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 without aggressive and effective policy changes, said an OECD expert on Wednesday.

We have worked hard in Colorado, and in other oil - and - gas producing states, to help put smart, effective, and affordable policies in place to reduce oil and gas methane pollution, because when states act, emissions fall.

The comprehensive failure of the Howard Government to take effective measures to cut Australia's emissions is well - understood by experts and policy makers abroad.

I suggest there is no credible evidence that carbon taxes will succeed in achieving global GHG emissions reductions, but they will damage the economies that implement them and, therefore, will reduce well - being and make those economies less able to afford effective policies.

Let's assume that a carbon tax, equal to the social cost of carbon, is the ideal climate policy — the most efficient and cost - effective way to reduce carbon emissions.

the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) and several other high level policy fora, we work with representatives of governments, the private sector, and civil society to promote effective carbon pricing policies that deliver emissions reductions while encouraging innovation and protecting the rights of those affected.

Most policy experts agree that the cheapest and most effective way to reduce carbon emissions is to price them; that is, to make emitters cover the costs that their emissions impose on society.

The government's most recent policy, the National Electricity Guarantee (NEG), is the fourth most effective response, only being proposed after an emissions trading scheme, an emissions intensity scheme and Finkel's clean energy target were sequentially rejected.

As a member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) and several other high level policy fora, we work with representatives of governments, the private sector, and civil society to promote effective carbon pricing policies that deliver emissions reductions while encouraging innovation and protecting the rights of those affected.