Sentences with phrase «experts on a carbon tax»

Read more analysis by RFF experts on a carbon tax — Considering a US Carbon Tax: Economic Analysis and Dialogue on Carbon Pricing Options.

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I am not an expert on the politics --- I do think a carbon tax should be put in place.

10/18/16 — Setting a tax on carbon emissions from fossil fuel combustion is considered by many experts, including two economic analysts writing in Issues, as a promising way to help control human - caused climate change, but US policy makers have resisted.

HERE is a poll by the IGM of their Economic Experts Panel on a carbon tax; the question posed was: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles».

According to the modeling group led by William Nordhaus, a Yale professor widely considered to be the world's leading expert on this kind of assessment, an optimally designed and implemented global carbon tax would provide an expected net benefit of around $ 3 trillion, or about 0.2 percent of the present value of global GDP over the next several centuries.

Foreign policy experts say the Keystone could have been used to forge a grand, cross-border bargain to jointly address climate change — a bargaining chip toward agreements on carbon taxes, cap - and - trade regimes, or other comprehensive approaches.

RFF experts Arthur G. Fraas and Nathan Richardson examined the questions associated with implementing a carbon tax versus regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act, looking at issues including scope, cost - effectiveness, ability to generate revenue, and the impact on international climate negotiations for either policy approach — finding that «there's no easy answer to whether regulation or a carbon price is the better instrument.»

Experts suggest that a carbon tax will produce the most efficient carbon reductions throughout the economy — whether from electricity production or transportation — because as a uniform price on CO2 emissions, the tax is the same regardless of source of the emissions.

While NAS experts attempt to downplay the political advocacies of its analysis, some critics argue that its explicit intent is to institute a burdensome carbon tax on businesses and individual taxpayers.

He is an expert on environmental, energy policy and green economics and has extensive experience in emissions trading, carbon taxes and efficiency legislation.