Sentences with phrase «global pollution costs»
Additional drivers of this revolution include the local and global pollution costs of extracting, transporting, refining and consuming fossil fuels.
https://www.climaterealityproject.org/ Not exact matches
The forces at play today include technology and cost breakthroughs that make clean energy increasingly competitive, as well as a rapidly growing domestic and global market for clean energy solutions fuelled by the desire of governments and citizens to reduce carbon pollution.»
These were cheaper because of agribusiness methods of production that do not count the cost of lost soil, contribution to global warming, the exhaustion of aquifers, or the pollution of waterways.
The cost of responding to the problems generated by global warming will reduce our ability to deal with other forms of pollution.
Probably far too complicated for this site, but the «costs» entirely disregards long - term costs - pollution, health problems (like coal extraction workers), and, obviously, the trillions in expected expenses from global warming effects, both responding to and trying to mitigate.
Without CCS, the IEA estimates that reducing global pollution would cost $ 2 trillion more by 2050, and yet few besides Southern Company, U.S. taxpayers and customers of Mississippi Power are paying for it.
«We can reduce health and climate change costs while reducing the dangerous carbon pollution driving global warming.»
«A carbon price would make the price of oil better reflect its true societal costs (including global warming impacts, health cost due to air pollution, as well as other environmental costs).
March 28, 2013 • The IMF says that price of gasoline in the U.S. covers the cost of producing and distribution gasoline but it doesn't reflect the costs that gasoline consumption imposes on society — in the form of traffic, congestion, pollution and global warming.
Mispricing from a domestic perspective is responsible for a large majority of the global subsidy: in 2013, local air pollution totaled 46 % of the subsidy, under - taxation of broader vehicle externalities (e.g., congestion, accidents) accounted for 13 %, 11 % of the subsidy came from undercharging for inventory costs, and general consumer taxes amounted to 8 %.
, and Putin — create new industries and jobs in clean energy products and services — reduce payroll taxes — make fossil fuels include more of their real costs, including health / pollution and our mega military spending in the Middle East — AND, apply the marketplace to force real major mitigation of global warming rise.
CUTTING FUEL COSTS ON THE ROAD: Here's ACP's take: CO2 emissions from cars and trucks account for about one - third of all energy - related global warming pollution in the United States.
If you add the indirect subsidies, like the cost of sickness caused by coal pollution, the global subsidy is five trillion a year.
With an estimated social cost of carbon — a damage estimate of global warming pollution — of $ 65 (far less than other estimates), the GED for coal - fired generators is 4.7 cents / kWh.
«It is our hope that this competition will inspire schools and communities across the country to make improvements that will increase student performance and teacher retention, while reducing global warming pollution and energy costs.»
For example, the environmental degradation from «acid rain» caused by high levels of Sulfur emissions, the economic impact of global warming, the health damage to humans from air and water pollution (from particulate matter and mercury), all are measurable with an economic cost to society.
Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).
If you disagree that all nations have a duty to reduce their ghg emissions to their fair share of safe global emissions without regard to cost to it, do you also deny the applicability of the well - established international legal norm that almost all nations have agreed to in 1992 in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development called the «polluter pays» principle which holds that polluters should pay for consequences of their pollution?
Co-founded by Graciela Chichilnisky, an architect of the Kyoto Protocol's carbon market, and Peter Eisenberger, founder of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, Global Thermostat has developed a proprietary technology that uses low - cost leftover process heat to grab carbon pollution from power plants — which then can be sold back to other companies as a power source.
«We have cost - effective technologies today that can sharply reduce global - warming pollution,» Romm writes.
Several analyses of the 2007 Senate climate bill, the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act (including studies done by the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency (pdf)-RRB- show that we can cut global warming pollution significantly while maintaining a strong economy and containing energy costs.
This is an era of increasing global fiscal budget constraints, and the trend toward greater industry internalization of fossil - fuel pollution costs and the reduction in fossil fuel subsidies is gaining unstoppable momentum.
Another market distortion occurs when we don't include the costs of global warming, currently estimated at $ 37 / ton carbon dioxide, $ 41 / metric ton, for pollution emitted today.
These tax credits can pay enormous dividends at low cost: by helping reduce tropical deforestation, they'll cut the source of 15 of global carbon pollution, more than all the cars, trucks, ships, and planes in the world combined.
It provides all of the basic information, such as how many wind turbines and solar panels would be needed to power each state, how much land area would be required, what would be the cost and cost savings, how many jobs would be created, how much pollution - related mortality and global - warming emissions would be avoided.»
That's the finding of a new Harvard study that, for the first time, examines the true cost of coal throughout its entire life cycle... Clearly, the fact that coal contributes more global warming pollution than any other source in the nation is far from its only problem.
However — if we consider the full cost of pollution and global warming, I think nuclear becomes cost effective again.
But instead of allowing polluters to benefit from this, in essence, extra cash, the overseers of RGGI decided to force polluters to pay for at least some of the right to pollute and then use those funds to help pay for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs in the various states, further reducing global warming pollution and potentially offsetting increased energy costs.
When you include energy subsidies on the supply side, include health care costs due to pollution, DoD costs to maintain supplies, costs due to global warming, etc., energy efficiency is cheap and easy.
So the real cost of a gallon of gasoline would include compensation for all the harms it's done to that point (in extraction, transport, processing, etc), and all harms it will do, including global heating harms, acid rain, and local pollution, including small particulate matter.
After the training, trainees emerged as energized and skilled communicators with the knowledge, tools, and drive to take action, educating diverse global communities on the costs of carbon pollution and what can be done to solve the climate crisis.
The combined costs of pollution, ecosystem depletion, and health impacts amount to almost $ 3 trillion annually for global companies, and if businesses had to pay for these costs, profits would be reduced to zero.
«If insurers were to properly reward consumers for less driving, that would not only lessen their auto insurance costs, but also reduce the number of uninsured motorists, accidents, air pollution and the impact on global warming,» notes.