Sentences with phrase «focused on carbon taxes»

But currently the debate is focused on carbon taxes and cap - and - trade systems.

The board provides recommendations to the Governor, JCCPO, and the legislature regarding the implementation and impact of the act with a focus on the carbon tax impacts and avoiding inequitable effects on citizens and energy intensive trade exposed businesses.

Not exact matches

Many of the CEOs» comments were focused on denouncing the Liberals and carbon taxes.

Together with our preceding report, How To Adopt a Winning Carbon Price, which focused on British Columbia's carbon tax, we've now offered a look «under the hood» of the two major approaches to carbon pricing, and the important lessons offered by each.

However, while we are focused on helping the economy grow, the NDP wants a $ 21 billion carbon tax which would cripple our economy and put Canadians out of work.

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.

Even if you're focused on limiting CO2, there are taxes, and there is the possibility that through technology the problem will solve itself without cap - and - trade or a carbon tax.

In this task, the study focuses on the approaches Chile, Mexico and South Africa have chosen for elaborating their carbon taxes.

Personally I think the idea of a carbon tax tends to focus too much on a single source of pollution rather than the broad range of environmental toxins that are polluting our environment.

We need a lively debate on whether to leave these kinds of climate science efforts behind, and focus instead on socio - political measures to «hit the brakes hard» — whether those be carbon taxes, carbon rationing (probably the most direct and effective means), or whatever.

I recommend: Convert this blog, or launch a second blog, wholly focused on advocacy for a carbon tax that rises steadily every month into the sunset, steeply enough to raise gasoline prices $ 0.20 / month — offset by reductions in payroll taxes.

The media focus was understandably on the fact that Abbott was advocating a carbon tax as the best form of putting a price on carbon, while he currently describes it as a «toxic tax».

I liked the parts of the statement that focussed on ways to improve the CPRS, but thought the carbon tax idea was a waste of breath.

With their unequivocal endorsement of carbon taxes, Legarde and Lee add to the pressure on UN climate negotiators to end two decades of fruitless haggling over national level emissions limits and to focus explicitly on pricing carbon pollution instead.

The debate over biofuels and economics has tended to focus on mandates and subsidies rather than carbon taxes — unsurprisingly, given the absence of carbon - taxing in the U.S. and the prevalence of large biofuel subsidies, primarily via the Renewable Fuel Standard.

Carbon Washington believes the risk of job leakage needs to be mitigated in a carbon tax bill, but we encourage the Legislature to focus on special handling only for businesses that are truly emission intensive and trade exposed.

This heartening development signals that it's not too soon to focus on the design of a U.S. carbon tax, especially its magnitude and rate of increase, as CTC senior policy analyst James Handley does in this post.

And with so much focus on the potential impact of the carbon tax on the household budget, it is almost easy to forget that it is supposed to help to reduce Australia's impact on the environment.

He has endorsed and possibly co-written a carbon tax plan that would protect companies from climate lawsuits and then joined a set of climate lawsuits roughly a year later, though he has insisted his involvement is limited to a focus on property rights.

Instead, they demanded an unworkable framework of legally binding international emissions targets, influenced and supported by climate hawks who demanded a laser focus on increasing renewable deployment and energy efficiency, mainly through market mechanisms such as cap - and - trade and carbon taxes.

The lobbying in Canada was focused on making sure that this carbon tax will be implemented.

Using these criteria yielded 1,481 articles (including duplicates) the majority of which focused on the immediate credits or debits of the carbon tax for families and industry, rather than the projected future costs to Australian incomes and / or GDP.

There is some real interest in this approach, mainly from academics, and there is also what I would characterize as «strategic interest,» principally from those who recognize that once the focus is on carbon taxes rather than other instruments, political debates will inevitably result in less ambitious targets or, in fact, no policy at all.

In contrast, as Hsu shows, a carbon pollution tax's laser focus on CO2 pollution creates incentives for all low - carbon alternatives, leaving specific technology decisions to engineers rather than politicians.

Obama knows the masses are focused on a failing economy and a carbon tax would at this time be political suicide for those supporters in Congress.

Oddly, the second highest ranked option — focused on clean energy innovation and deployment — was presented to the panel of economists as being accompanied by a low but growing carbon tax, as part of the proposed policy design.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

Unlike a cap - and - trade system, there's no analysis and debate about the cost of allowances (and the marginal abatement costs they represent); and unlike a carbon tax, there's no analysis and no focus on the dollar amount of the tax and the aggregate cost.

It is nothing but a compilation and regurgitation with spin focused on forcing / supporting the United States to implement a carbon tax.

Others in Congress support new legislation setting a price on carbon (with most recent attention focused on a revenue - neutral carbon tax).

Respondents also said governments should focus more on increasing investment in renewable energy, halting deforestation and conserving water resources than on carbon markets or taxes.

They should focus on the main game — the introduction of a carbon tax later this year.

Yet much of the policy discussion is focused on implementing carbon taxes or cap and trade schemes, with an often - unstated expectation that the technologies exist to achieve decarbonisation, or will emerge more or less spontaneously.

My daily behavior will be focused on the on - going carbon tax, and how to minimize it.

Attempts the gloss over the inadequacies of the carbon sequestration efficiency focus on the cost of sequestering CO2, proposing a tax on energy useage to cover that cost, and then proposing an emissions trading scheme to make the release of CO2 and the sequestering of the same commercially fluid.

In this special issue, we focus on the climate implications of a carbon tax.

The second part of the executive session focused on specific policy responses with emphasis on the feasibility of adopting carbon taxes and / or a comprehensive tradeable permit scheme.

He proposes «putting a price on carbon,» starting with a very focused carbon tax, as opposed to an economywide cap - and - trade system, so as to spur both consumers and industries to invest in and buy new clean energy products.

To limit the scope of this analysis, we focused exclusively on transportation issues as they relate to the carbon tax.