Sentences with phrase «emission taxes on»

London recently instituted an emissions tax on cars entering the city, dramatically affecting traffic in some areas, but electric Smarts don't spew pollutants.

Not exact matches

«Mandating tough fuel economy standards on auto manufacturers will do far more to reduce greenhouse emissions than a tax,» wrote one CEO.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

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Ms. Mitchelmore said CCS technology won't be widely adopted unless there is a price on carbon — either through a tax, a cap - and - trade system or regulations on emissions.

The government will also give LNG Canada and other large emitters a break on carbon taxes, if they can meet strict new benchmarks for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and will aggressively pursue electrification of natural gas fields.

Our analysis shows the overall economy improves, taxes are lower and pollution emissions are reduced,» said John M. Reilly, co-director of MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

The new plan will include carbon tax and a cap on oilseeds emissions among other strategies.

The logic behind carbon pricing — most likely either a tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system that allows companies to sell emission permits back and forth — is powerful.

Regardless of whether the fuel source is coal, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane the tax doesn't discriminate, levying a $ 30 per tonne charge on emissions from all carbon fuels.

Alberta is boosting its use of renewable energy, closing power plants that burn coal and in January increased its tax on carbon emissions by 50 percent.

The Canadian federal government recently mandated a tax on carbon emissions.

These goals will be achieved through a progressive carbon tax system, which place levies on carbon emissions.

The Tories have attacked the Liberals» carbon tax policy and have argued it will raise prices on almost everything — from gasoline and groceries — without actually cutting emissions.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

I followed - up: Is the Harper government open to considering a tax on carbon emissions?

She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

The different governments lead by Mrs. Thatcher restrain the emission of the monetary mass, raise the rate of interest, reduce in a drastic way the taxes on the highest incomes, abolish the control of the financial flows, strongly raise the rate of unemployment, provoke strikes, put in place an anti-unions legislation and cut the social expenses.

Study into carbon tax on high - emissions food finds people would be more likely to eat less meat if they had to pay more for it

A climate tax on meat, milk and eggs could help reduce Europe's greenhouse gas emissions by seven per cent, according to suggestions made in a new study from Sweden.

Abbott has also introduced legislation into parliament to axe Labor's Climate Change Authority, which advises the government on emissions - reduction targets, and to repeal its tax on carbon pricing.

Yesterday the Herald revealed that agreement had been reached to start the scheme for three years with a fixed price on carbon - a de facto carbon tax - before it becomes an emissions trading scheme in which the market would set the price.

He said: «The Labour government is going backwards with Gordon Brown's demotion of the Cabinet committee on the environment, cuts in green taxes and rising carbon emissions.

Brown has exposed himself as a shallow cynical opprtunist... on Thatcher, on a conference speech that wasn't his, on Iraq, on a General Election, on the NHS, on Inheritance Tax and on taxing emissions.

The money would be spent on European policies including a financial transaction tax, CO2 emission auctions and an aviation scheme, Mr Lewandowski told the Financial Times Deutschland newspaper.

The government must impose higher taxes on gas - guzzling cars and on flights to cut carbon emissions, MPs warn today.

Some analysts have predicted Mr Brown will increase excise duty on 4x4s and add an extra tax on flights, a move that will anger low cost airlines such as Ryanair, which says green taxes have «repeatedly failed to have any reduction effect on emissions».

Higher taxes on domestic flights and improved public transport are needed if Britain is to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050, a Conservative policy group has said.

The next parliament could see cherished progressive liberal aspirations realised: a proportional electoral system; wider and better - defended civil liberties; a new, internationalist approach to foreign affairs and immigration; reform of the tax system to share wealth and curb carbon emissions; and an assault on the vested interests of the financial sector.

A third established a tax on carbon emissions, under which emissions fell the most.

Avoiding Norway's tax on CO2 emissions balanced most of the costs of the project.

Even putting a levy on carbon emissions, either through a carbon tax or carbon - emission permits, will not be sufficient.

«Globally, beef production can be taxing on the environment, leading to high greenhouse gas emissions and land degradation,» said Jason Rowntree, MSU associate professor of animal science, who led the study.

The Republican - led House of Representatives is currently working on the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, which would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate climate change.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

Key finding: innovation + policy = economic growth A third scenario includes a $ 30 per ton price on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, redistributed to taxpayers through proportional tax payments.

Only voluntary restrictions or, more likely, taxes on fossil - fuel consumption and incentives for developing alternative fuels will reduce emissions.

Should the government impose a price on carbon emissions, whether it is a tax or cap - and - trade system, CO2 - free sources, such as nuclear energy, will become even more competitive.

(Reuters)- Carbon emissions and electricity demand in Australia have risen in the two months since the government repealed a tax on emissions, bucking a nearly six - year long trend of decline, an energy consultancy said on Thursday.

Peter Ryan's letter makes a good argument for taxing carbon emissions on the consumption rather than production of goods (22/29...

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

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

But as the 2020s progressed, meat became increasingly unaffordable as demand outstripped supply and taxes on greenhouse gas emissions...

Some activists, though, said they are concerned that the United States will focus entirely on private - sector funding and will once again sidestep ways of raising public money, including from «innovative sources,» like a tax on bunker fuels or airline emissions.

Some economists believe a simple tax on greenhouse gas emissions makes more sense than the elaborate cap - and - trade regime for carbon dioxide envisioned by Evolution and other players in the nascent market.

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.

The country also introduced a carbon tax on generation and vehicle emissions, its top two emitting sectors.

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

Australia's CCS adherents press ahead on the belief that the government will eventually impose a cost on carbon emissions through a tax or emissions trading scheme.

He also called for the U.S. government to tax or put a price on carbon emissions in order to encourage private investment in clean energy and curb climate change.