Sentences with phrase «from emission taxes»

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Studies indicate carbon dioxide emissions from transportation in the province have declined 16 % in that time, and while it's impossible to draw a direct causal relationship between the tax and the emissions decline, it's fair to say it was a factor contributing to indisputable behavioural changes — you can't emit 16 % less CO2 by doing the same things you did before.

Petronas acknowledged the B.C. government has «brought resolution to key policy matters,» such as establishing a tax regime for LNG firms, detailing offsets for greenhouse gas emissions and gaining support from First Nations.

Regardless of whether the fuel source is coal, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane the tax doesn't discriminate, levying a $ 30 per tonne charge on emissions from all carbon fuels.

The province, though, needs to recognize that if an emission - constrained world is going to limit the royalty revenue it collects from extracting fossil fuels, then it will be better off with a tax regime that adds money to provincial coffers when fuel is burned.

The Tories have attacked the Liberals» carbon tax policy and have argued it will raise prices on almost everything — from gasoline and groceries — without actually cutting emissions.

Dave Sawyer, one of the authors of the National Round Table on Environment and Economy report, and blogger at EnviroEconomics.ca, makes some pertinent insider comments on the efficacy of a carbon tax in reducing emissions from personal transportation, a major source of emissions: While the carbon tax will â $ œdriveâ $ some reductions in vehicle kilometers traveled, -LSB-...]

She imposed a five - year freeze on the carbon tax, refuses to use carbon tax revenue to fund climate solutions, exempted the LNG industry from calculating greenhouse gas emissions on 70 per cent of its operations, cancelled a home retrofit program, and derailed public transit expansion plans with a built - to - fail referendum.

A climate tax on meat, milk and eggs could help reduce Europe's greenhouse gas emissions by seven per cent, according to suggestions made in a new study from Sweden.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

The Republican - led House of Representatives is currently working on the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, which would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide emissions to mitigate climate change.

Key finding: innovation + policy = economic growth A third scenario includes a $ 30 per ton price on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, redistributed to taxpayers through proportional tax payments.

However, MacKenzie said he is wary of deriving laws to regulate contrails from aircraft the way carbon emissions are regulated and taxed.

Some activists, though, said they are concerned that the United States will focus entirely on private - sector funding and will once again sidestep ways of raising public money, including from «innovative sources,» like a tax on bunker fuels or airline emissions.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

In response to a tax on greenhouse - gas emissions imposed by the Norwegian government, each year the company now removes about 1 million tons of CO2 captured as a waste product from the natural gas it recovers and pumps more than 99 percent of it 2,600 feet beneath the seafloor into a porous sandstone formation capped by impervious rock.

An analysis by the nonprofit Carbon Tax Center found that if the initial carbon price of $ 40 per ton rises by $ 5 each year beginning in 2018, it would result in a 40 percent emissions reduction from 2005 levels by 2030.

Last year, economist Marc Lee at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, a non-profit organisation in Ottawa, Canada, analysed data from the collection of a carbon tax in British Columbia, and concluded that the top 1 per cent of households have carbon emissions three times the provincial average.

Results from the study showed indicated that with carbon taxes set at $ 50 per ton and increased at a rate of 5 % per year would lead to a reduction in the total greenhouse gas emission in the US by as much as 63 %, confirms Reilly.

These would protect energy - intensive trade - exposed industries by eliminating the competitive advantage enjoyed by exports from countries that don't tax carbon emissions.

In the other, they only taxed emissions from industry and fossil fuels.

Chancellor Philip Hammond announced that from 1 April 2018 new diesels could be moved to higher tax bands if they don't meet certain emissions regulations.

The project is financed with a grant from the Federal Transit Administration, local Measure A transportation sales tax revenue for capital projects and a Bay Area Air Quality Management District grant for heavy duty zero - emission vehicles.

CO2 emissions of 104g / km mean the Fiesta qualifies for # 20 road tax and it benefits from strong residuals, with our experts calculating that the Ford will hold on to 44.7 per cent of its value after three years.

***** Advertised price does not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, dealer document processing charge of $ 80 for lease and $ 80 for purchase, any electronic filing charges, or any emission testing charge.Toyota Combined Details: * Roadside Assistance for 1 Year (for Toyota Certified Used Vehicles program), Battery 8 years / 100, 000 miles (whichever comes first) from original in - service date.

That's the theory used by Vauxhall engineers who have managed to optimise the Corsa CDTi's engine to save the planet from hundreds of thousands of tons of C02 emissions - and collective Corsa owners from hundreds of thousands of pounds in tax.

The 148bhp 2.0 TDI diesel is expected to be the mainstay of Arteon sales in the UK, and it offers pretty impressive claimed economy of 65.7 mpg on the combined cycle, while C02 emissions of 112g / km mean it's reasonably efficient from a company car tax perspective too.

Since the Nissan Leaf has zero emissions, there is no road tax and is currently exempt from company car «benefit - in - kind» tax.

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A front - wheel drive Nissan Qashqai is admittedly less powerful, but some of those are actually exempt from road tax thanks to sub-100g / km CO2 emissions.

* 35/25 Highway / City MPG Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Details: * Transferable Warranty * Roadside Assistance * 160 Point Inspection * Roadside Assistance for 1 Year * Limited Warranty: 12 Month / 12, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from certified purchase date * Vehicle History * Warranty Deductible: $ 50 * Powertrain Limited Warranty: 84 Month / 100, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from original in - service date Awards: * 2015 IIHS Top Safety Pick * 2015 15 Best Family Cars * 2015 10 Best Sedans Under $ 25,000 * Advertised price does not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, dealer document processing charge of $ 80 for lease and $ 80 for purchase, any electronic filing charges, or any emission testing charge.

* 27/21 Highway / City MPG Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Details: * Roadside Assistance * Powertrain Limited Warranty: 84 Month / 100, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from original in - service date * 160 Point Inspection * Vehicle History * Roadside Assistance for 1 Year * Transferable Warranty * Warranty Deductible: $ 50 * Limited Warranty: 12 Month / 12, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from certified purchase date Awards: * 2017 IIHS Top Safety Pick * ALG Residual Value Awards * 2017 12 Best Family Cars * 2017 Best Resale Value Awards * 2017 10 Most Awarded Brands * Advertised price does not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, dealer document processing charge of $ 80 for lease and $ 80 for purchase, any electronic filing charges, or any emission testing charge.

Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Details: * Warranty Deductible: $ 50 * Vehicle History * Roadside Assistance * Limited Warranty: 12 Month / 12, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from certified purchase date * 160 Point Inspection * Powertrain Limited Warranty: 84 Month / 100, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from original in - service date * Transferable Warranty * Roadside Assistance for 1 Year Awards: * 2016 Best Resale Value Awards * 2016 Best Buy Awards Finalist * Advertised price does not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, dealer document processing charge of $ 80 for lease and $ 80 for purchase, any electronic filing charges, or any emission testing charge.

***** Advertised price does not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, dealer document processing charge of $ 80 for lease and $ 80 for purchase, any electronic filing charges, or any emission testing charge.Toyota Combined Details: * Limited Warranty: 12 Month / 12, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from certified purchase date * Roadside Assistance for 1 Year (for Toyota Certified Used Vehicles program), Battery 8 years / 100, 000 miles (whichever comes first) from original in - service date.

On the plus side, the T8's 49g / km CO2 emissions mean a low 9 % BiK company - car tax rating and exemption from the London Congestion Charge.

In manual form, the Optima SW goes from 0 - 60mph in just under 10 seconds, while claimed fuel economy is 64.2 mpg and CO2 emissions of 113g / km mean # 30 - a-year road tax.

* 26/20 Highway / City MPG Toyota Certified Used Vehicles Details: * Transferable Warranty * Powertrain Limited Warranty: 84 Month / 100, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from original in - service date * Warranty Deductible: $ 50 * Roadside Assistance for 1 Year * Vehicle History * Roadside Assistance * Limited Warranty: 12 Month / 12, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from certified purchase date * 160 Point Inspection * Advertised price does not include government fees and taxes, any finance charges, dealer document processing charge of $ 80 for lease and $ 80 for purchase, any electronic filing charges, or any emission testing charge.

Japan's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is a 26 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2013 levels.1 To achieve this, the Japanese government has set carbon targets for all sectors backed up by a national carbon tax and Tokyo emissions trading scheme.

They exchanged ideas for more joint approaches as island nations dependent on tourism, and they all agreed on the need for long - haul tourism destinations such as the Caribbean islands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industTax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industtax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industry.

Re # 43, A «collosal political jump forward» would be for the US to strip all subsidies from the fossil fuel industry, and to strip all subsidies from fossil - fuel intensive agricultural industry as well (over $ 35 billion a year), and to deliver those subsidies to solar, wind, and carbon - neutral agricultural industries — as well as instituting a hefty carbon tax on all fossil fuels, and agreeing to strict emissions caps, and mandating energy efficient technology in all areas.

A party from which the loudest and most influencial voices either do not attribute climate change to man's activities, deny there are any changes happening at all, and / or are unwilling to do anything that taxes fossil fuel emissions.

Other climate and energy campaigners see far too weak a plan, with Charles Komanoff of the Carbon Tax Center making this trenchant observation about how recent progress on emissions (through the surprise shift from coal to gas and rise in energy efficiency) compares to the planned cuts:

Why don't you take up an earlier suggestion from Ross McKitrick and endorse (in summary here) that GHG emissions be taxed proportional to the actual global temperature change?

A carbon tax will make fossil fuel prices come closer to covering full cost, incorporating some of those fuels» currently - excluded costs: our dependence on and enrichment of oil - country despots, huge military costs of protecting distant oil operations and transport, health costs from emissions other than CO2, etc., etc., etc.....

[Andy Revkin — Mr. Gore is sticking with his preference for taxing sources of emissions and limiting costs for citizens that bears no resemblance to «cap and trade» bills like those that have faltered in Congress of late and shares some of the architecture, if not details, of the «cap and dividend» approach of Peter Barnes and a similar proposal from James Hansen, the NASA climate scientist who has moved far into the policy realm lately.]

Carbon dioxide emissions will be taxed at a rate of $ 23 ($ 16.89) a tonne from July 1st next year, rising by 2.5 per cent a year for three years.

A report published by the Environmental Law Students Association (ELSA), called for a «carbon price escalator» with S$ 5 annual increments in the tax rate, arguing that Singapore's initial price of S$ 5 is too far off from the benchmark of US$ 50 — US$ 100 per tonne of emissions recommended by World Bank's High - Level Comission on Carbon Prices report.

Moving from theory to practice, however, has proven challenging, as the two leading approaches to pricing carbon, carbon taxes and cap - and - trade programs, only cover about 12 % of all carbon emissions globally today.

To reach Singapore's Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement — to reduce emissions intensity by 36 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, and peak carbon emissions by 2030 — the public has to engage in dialogue with the government and help shape a carbon tax that reflects Singapore's ambition.

Border adjustments are one way to offset the decline in competitiveness of U.S. emission - intensive firms and thereby reduce the consequent leakage and lost profits and employment that would otherwise result from an economywide carbon tax or cap - and - trade program.

9/19/16 — Taxing carbon released from burning fossil fuels could be a key part of a comprehensive effort to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide, a major contributor to human - caused climate change, two economists have argued in Issues.