Sentences with phrase «emissions at no cost to consumers»

With the highest efficiency standards, countries can cut household carbon emissions at no cost to consumers — and achieve the UN's climate goals.

13 April, 2018 — With the highest efficiency standards, countries can cut household carbon emissions at no cost to consumers — and achieve the UN's climate goals.

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Thus, today there's a keener appreciation that cap - and - trade regimes such as Europe's ambitious Emissions Trading System have been costly failures, with one study suggesting the E.T.S. had «limited benefits and embarrassing consequences» in terms of emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280Emissions Trading System have been costly failures, with one study suggesting the E.T.S. had «limited benefits and embarrassing consequences» in terms of emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280 billion.

At the same time the costs of emissions - intensive goods and services will rise, and those costs will be passed on to consumers, but there won't be any government revenue to compensate them.

«President Obama's plans to add costly new regulations on methane when emissions are already falling could harm America's shale energy revolution that has lowered energy costs for American consumers by $ 700 a year at the pump and $ 1200 annually in home utility bills.

Politicians are unwilling to seek meaningful emission targets, corporations are fundamentally committed to economic growth at all costs, and even ordinary citizens refuse to sacrifice their consumer lives for the promise of a stable climate.

With that in mind, power consumers and taxpayers are clearly entitled to ask whether the subsidies received by wind power generators represent a cost - effective means of reducing CO2 emissions; if, indeed, there is any such reduction at all.

Implementing policies to tap into hydropower, land - based and offshore wind, and other renewable energy resources would cut carbon emissions — and capture a range of additional consumer, health, and economic benefits — at modest cost.