Sentences with phrase «energy consumption taxes»

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Economists agreed almost unanimously at a recent provincial economic summit that a consumption tax would help level out the peaks and valleys of provincial revenue tied to energy prices.

Robin wonders if there might be some way to speed up the process, to increase people's awareness of their feelings of discomfort and dissonance so that they become willing to endorse social policies — consumption and energy taxes, for instance — that will change the direction of our culture.

This is partly because the meta - analysis predominantly included studies with a high baseline consumption of sugar sweetened drinks, in which a tax may have greater potential to reduce energy intake.

Computer models play a significant role in environmental policy, but offer only a partial picture of the industrial system Whether it's electric automobiles, renewable energy, carbon tax or sustainable consumption: Sustainable development requires strategies that meet people's needs without harming the environment.

And so this all implies that given the pressing climate change issue and Paris targets set at 2050, smaller population and reduced consumption will have very limited impact, so we are mainly going to be reliant on renewable energy and carbon taxes and so on in the shorter term over the next 20 — 30 years or so.

And so this all implies that given the pressing climate change issue and Paris targets set at 2050, smaller population and reduced consumption will have very limited impact, so we are mainly going to be reliant on renewable energy and carbon taxes and so on in the shorter term over the next 20 — 30 years or so.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

With the recent steep fall in oil prices and associated declines in other energy prices, the stars are aligned for adopting a carbon tax on consumption of fossil fuels, Lawrence Summers, a former treasury secretary and presidential adviser, says in the Washington Post.

As a $ / kWh tax on electricity consumption, the tax is applied directly to consumers after the city's utility, Xcel Energy, has already purchased its electricity supply.

Electricity tax rates, more direct, government - sponsored conservation initiatives, and development of alternative energies can have far - reaching impacts on home electricity consumption and its emissions.

Over time, this continually rising price provides an incentive for people and businesses to use less and find alternatives: Anyone who can lower their fuel usage and / or energy consumption, pays less tax.

The total tax burden imposed on households in Denmark in the form of taxes on energy use of all kinds, water consumption and waste production, etc., is considerable.

A recent IMF paper put the magnitude of subsidies for fossil fuel energy sources at $ 5.3 trillion worldwide in 2015, including both direct fiscal costs and implicit subsidies from the failure to charge for environmental damages or tax energy at the same rate as other consumption products.

The key challenges are to restructure existing energy tax systems to directly target the source of environmental harm (e.g., by taxing emissions or driving on busy roads rather than electricity consumption or vehicle sales), to better align tax levels with the scale of environmental harm, and to overcome practical challenges of higher energy and transportation costs.

The tax breaks would be more than enough to keep consumption high and energy would gradually shift to other sources and more efficient technology while supplying the developing world with more fossil fuel.

(b) Against a comparable carbon tax (ie a federal or another states» carbon tax) already paid on the consumption of the same energy consumed in Washington State

«Taxes imposed on energy are not high enough to account for all the adverse effects of excessive energy consumption, including on the environment,» says the David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF.

This is a consumption - based carbon tax, which excludes exports, and taxes the embodied carbon content inherent in energy consumed within the State.

Oakland should aim for a comprehensive carbon tax based on CO2 emissions or energy content that includes gasoline, oil, natural gas, and fossil fuel - fired electricity consumption by residential, commercial, and industrial customers.

The actual gas tax rate would be adjusted on an quarterly basis to maximize the likelihood of achieving annual oil consumption reductions of at least 3 % at the lowest net cost to society as determined by a panel of experts and / or the Oakland Oil and Energy Team recommended below.

In particular, the new putty - clay model of directed technical change suggests that a 6.9-fold energy tax in 2055 is necessary to achieve policy goals consistent with the 2016 Paris Agreement and that such a tax would lead to 6.8 % lower consumption when compared to a world without taxes.

In place of the suburb, it wants Soviet - style high density housing; changes in zoning laws that increasingly make it impossible to maintain single family residences (let alone build new ones); mandated use of public transportation (thus positioning the high density housing near railroad or bus depots and excluding from those «human residential zones» most roadways and parking installations); and severe limitations on private food, water, and energy consumption, in return for enormously high taxes that will fund «cradle to grave» care by the nanny government.

This website is the first step towards our goal of bringing together on one site all of the publicly - available data on: CO2 emissions; Other sources of greenhouse gases (GHG) and GHG sinks; Energy production and consumption; Energy investment, prices and taxes; Socio - economic benchmarks & drivers.

For 25 years and with utter futility (starting with «The Oil - Bust Panic,» the New Republic, February 1983), I have been advocating the cure: a U.S. energy tax as a way to curtail consumption and keep the money at home.

When electric utilities have to choose among energy sources, they will have to take into account the higher license fees or taxes associated with fossil - fuel consumption.

A whole good idea would be to make a payroll - tax holiday the first step in an orderly transition to scrapping the payroll tax altogether and replacing the lost revenue with a package of levies on things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more of — things like pollution, carbon emissions, oil imports, inefficient use of energy and natural resources, and excessive consumption.

First, more efficient appliances and automobiles cost much more to achieve equivalent energy savings than a tax on fossil fuel consumption.

Reuse decreases energy consumption, saves the embodied energy of manufactured goods, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, conserves natural and man - made resources, provides quality products to those with limited means, offers businesses and individuals with tax benefits, and supplies sales taxes which contribute to the economy.

Specifically, the CBMA improves Section 179D's effectiveness in promoting energy efficiency retrofits by: measuring energy savings and improvements by reference to the existing building's own consumption baseline; linking the amount of the enhanced 179D deduction to energy savings achieved; and making the tax incentive useable for a broader range of real estate owners and other stakeholders.