We know that a Harper government will continue to shield the industry
from a national carbon tax, but the issue is secondary in nature, at best.
Not exact matches
Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre called the PBO's findings «damaging» for the government, citing the impact of larger deficits, higher debt payments and a
carbon tax that he says will erase at least $ 10 billion per year
from the
national economy by 2022.
Canada's coming
national price on
carbon adds further fuel to the debate, as some will be looking for Canadian industries affected by the
carbon price to get protections, maybe even in the form of a
carbon tax applied at the border on goods coming
from places in the U.S. where there is no such policy.
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-...]
Yet, how much to invest in policies — like setting an appropriate
carbon tax — to protect future generations
from environmental destruction depends on how society chooses to value human population, according to a new study published Oct. 30 in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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.
Do you doubt that
national governments, and some international (EU and UN) are not seeking revenue
from carbon taxes?.
But rather than lowering an existing
tax, it relies on a so - called
tax - and - dividend model: As the state of Alaska does with oil revenues, revenues
from the Council's
national carbon tax would be returned equally to all American households in quarterly «dividends» digitally deposited in Social Security accounts.
A new report
from the International Monetary Fund suggests that a
carbon tax of $ 30 / ton of CO2 on offshore maritime and aviation emissions alone could generate $ 25 billion of revenue a year, while noting that
national governments may have only weak claims to that revenue.
In an emotional speech to executives of the
National Wildlife Federation on Friday night, Leonard said his controversial support for what would amount to a
carbon tax stems
from his attempt to face his own mortality.
In July, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled a
national carbon tax on that country's 500 worst polluters, after her predecessor was turfed
from office when his own
carbon pricing scheme withered on the vine.
In a sharp change
from its cautious approach in the past, the
National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for
taxes on
carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of
carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.
A new
carbon tax calculator
from the research firm E3 lets you model
carbon tax rates in a
national setting; in one test scenario a flat $ 5 per ton
carbon tax still generates about a 6 % CO2 reduction.
A new
carbon tax calculator
from the research firm E3 lets you model
carbon tax rates in a
national setting;
Beyond a
tax on
carbon, it includes an array of proposals
from banning certain drilling and mining practices to improving the
national public transit system.
Another progressive approach is to rebate the
carbon tax revenues equally to all U.S. residents — a
national version of the Alaska Permanent Fund, which for decades has annually sent identical checks to all state residents
from earnings on investments made with the state's North Slope oil royalties.