Sentences with phrase «hard carbon emission caps»
What it likely refers to are sector specific energy efficiency standards, not hard carbon emission caps.
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Price: Though the policy doesn't impose a hard cap on emissions, it imposes a hard cap on the price of carbon.
Some people have unwisely taken that logic to the extreme and suggested that if the US and other innovating nations just pushed hard on technology that there wouldn't be much need for emission limits, cap and trade or carbon taxes.
Anti-regulatory blogs and commentators and the McCain - Palin campaign made a push to publicize a 10 - month - old comment by Senator Barack Obama about the high cost of coal burning if and when a hard cap is set for carbon dioxide emissions.
The ancient Chinese mask - changing dance that I saw here Tuesday night (at a dinner for participants in a meeting on science and sustainable development) came to mind in considering the unraveling of news a few hours earlier of an official Chinese plan for a firm cap on emissions of carbon dioxide, hard on the heels of President Obama's proposed carbon pollution rules for existing American power plants.
At the same time, Alberta now has an ambitious climate plan that includes a carbon tax and hard cap on oil sands emissions.
Similarly, because nearly any plausible scenario would require a large amount of negative emissions later in the century, the carbon budget itself is not a hard cap on emissions.