Sentences with phrase «extra cost of climate change»

Now Tata is pointing to unrealistically low prices of Chinese steel as a factor behind the closure of Port Talbot plant, alongside high energy prices and the extra cost of climate change policies.

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They did so by adding the extra emissions to an existing model used in the UK government's 2006 Stern Review, designed to assess the economic cost of coping with climate change between now and 2200.

Much of the debate on reducing international carbon emissions has focused on the extra cost of making the necessary cuts to slow the onset of climate change.

This will lead to an extra $ 60 trillion (net present value) of mean climate - change impacts for the scenario with no mitigation, or 15 % of the mean total predicted cost of climate - change impacts (about $ 400 trillion).

(c) The benefits in terms of the possibility of implementing progressive policies such as redistribution away from the 1 per cent will more than offset the extra costs of the delay in dealing with climate change.

The team found that, in general, eastbound flights were faster than westbound for all carriers, and that climate change had made a difference of about a minute per round trip, with a small extra cost in fuel on each flight.

And there are a wide range of estimates of the «true» cost of coal: Depending on how you factor in the costs of climate change, it could be between a few additional cents per kWh to a whopping cents 26.89 extra per kilowatt hour — the high - end estimate from the Harvard study.