Sentences with phrase «high carbon trading»

This will be achieved through a combination of high carbon trading and offset; the use of sustainable fuel such as from waste and fuel - burn reduction through a more efficient aircraft fleet.

Not exact matches

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

In May, Michael Arceneaux, deputy executive director of the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, began a one - person campaign to educate Congress that high - profile bills under consideration, notably those involving carbon cap - and - trade systems, had serious effects on water supplies that were not being considered.

This price, which essentially transforms the trading scheme into a tax, must be high enough so that it sends a credible signal that emitters must invest in technologies and practices that lower carbon emissions.

Xu said that higher trading activities are expected to emerge in coming weeks because regulated emitters are approaching their deadline of reporting annual emissions and therefore have stronger incentives to trade carbon allowances.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

Clearly, the EU and China are doing far better than the U.S. Note that I am not a big believer in the likelihood of carbon taxes or a cap and trade system bringing enough renewables online quickly enough to save the climate just due to investors reactions to higher energy prices.

You can't have it both ways: insist that we need carbon taxes, or at least cap and trade, and then feign pain about consumers facing high gas prices.

Second, Jon Huntsman is elected President in 2012 and pushes through the following policies: The U.S. signs new trade agreements with developing countries where (1) Bans on exporting U.S. natural gas is lifted to developing economies; (2) Developing countries are given «favored» status into U.S. Markets; (3) In exchange for these 2 benefits, Developing Countries agree to develop their economies to «low carbon standards» by purchasing U.S. high energy efficiency technology products.

It is clear that the Sunday news talk shows are predominately sponsored by high carbon brands - either specific oil companies Shell, ExxonMobil and BP or by industry trade groups like EnergyTomorrow or API.

It would also be possible to design a carbon - revenue - credit trading system that allows one country to pay another country for setting a higher price than required.

Readers who actually want a thorough and careful account of the pros and cons of I - 732 from a policy point of view should read the three detailed articles by the Sightline Institute here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/01/pros-cons-carbonwa-carbon-tax-swap-ballot-initiative-732/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/02/does-initiative-732-carbon-tax-have-a-budget-hole/ http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/03/weighing-critiques-of-carbonwa-i-732/ Readers who are interested in the messy political conflict over the initiative might start with a couple of Patrick Mazza's articles: http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/11/can-wa-state-climate-policy-train-wreck.html http://cascadiaplanet.blogspot.com/2015/12/wa-climate-initiative-conflict-on-road.html If you want to know why the Alliance's proposal won't do much for low - income families facing higher energy costs as a result of a carbon fee (though it would produce a lot of union trade jobs by funding State infrastructure spending) start here: http://www.sightline.org/2016/08/16/green-stamps-a-climate-equity-proposal-for-the-pacific-northwest/

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vCARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vcarbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local vcarbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

In the current U.S. political environment, a cap - and - trade system is unlikely to result in a sufficiently high market price for CO2 (around $ 30 per ton) in the early years of a carbon control regime to assure that all coal plant developers adopt CCS systems.

Through carbon trade, countries with higher carbon emissions could purchase emission permit from those with lower emissions or even negative emissions.

They say that carbon trading is essentially the same as the trading of derivatives, and not unlike junk bonds or subprime mortgages, subprime carbon carries a higher risk of delivering on its value and thus is prone to price volatility.

If the cap is too high / cautious, as has been the case in virtually every other cap - and - trade system to date, carbon prices will stay low and the system won't have much effect.

Michael Wara, a law professor at Stanford University, has calculated that in years when carbon credits were trading at high prices and coolant was dirt - cheap because of the oversupply, companies were earning nearly twice as much from the credits as from producing the coolant itself.

Their research is featured prominently in the UNâ $ ™ s Assessment Reports (AR1, AR2, AR3 â $ «and AR4 is the latest) issued by the IPCC that are being used as justification for carbon trading schemes, higher energy taxes, tremendous new government regulation trillions of dollars in public investment and even plans for a new world government entity with the authority to supersede the sovereignty of the United States.

Article 6 establishes two new provisions for voluntary cooperation and carbon trading, recognizing that such approaches «allow for higher ambition in their mitigation and adaptation actions» and «promote sustainable development and environmental integrity.»

Take advantage of this high - calibre networking opportunity with mandatory participants in Ontario's cap and trade and key government decision - makers, and gain useful updates on compliance and trading strategies from international carbon market experts.

This is especially so in Australia, where the economic costs on a carbon - intensive economy are high (our main comparative advantage is in energy, minerals and energy - intensive metals processing; we provide a high proportion of world trade in such areas), and where any impact on eventual warming will be negligible.

(H) the highest - priority trading partners of the industries at risk of carbon leakage, listed in order of priority.

As a founding member of the International Carbon Reduction and Offsetting Alliance (ICROA) we are committed to the highest standards in carbon offsetting and carbon trading.

American Carbon Registry (www.americancarbonregistry.org), an enterprise of Winrock International, is an Offset Project Registry for the California cap - and - trade program as well as a leading voluntary carbon market offset program recognized for its high standards for environmental integrity.

So lets start with a carbon tax or cap and trade: we don't know how high to set a tax, and we do not know how sensitive climate is beyond the broad range quoted above.

The worth of the global market remains far below its high water mark of $ 98 million in 2011, according to BNEF figures, which was based on volume of 8.7 billion carbon permits traded.

The congressional cap - and - trade proposals discussed during the past few years would have limited the price of carbon to $ 25 to $ 50 per metric ton out of fear that higher CO2 prices would impede economic growth.

With a cap and trade system, if you set the emissions level too low, you may get a really high price for carbon, which, unless you relax the cap, will have large negative impacts on the economy.

In a post last September, I observed that carbon prices in the EU's emission trading system (ETS) were so low they failed to incentivize hoped - for technology innovation, yet so high EU governments had to establish a «carbon compensation fund» to keep manufacturers from offshoring their operations.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

Supporters of cap - and - trade were never able to resolve this contradiction: either it wouldn't raise fossil fuel prices, in which case it would be ineffectual; or it would raise them after all, provoking an unstoppable backlash among a citizenry that hadn't signed off on the higher prices and wouldn't be getting the dividends from the tax revenues, while carbon - market participants skimmed big profits.

We show the temperature changes that result from exchanging CO2 for CH4 using a variety of commonly suggested metrics to illustrate the trade - offs involved in potential carbon trading mechanisms that place a high value on CH4 emissions.

Hemmed in by higher cost alternatives like mandating C02 sequestration for all new coal - fired plants or instituting a low enough carbon cap, they'll not be able support an effective climate management package if they are prevented from framing their support for it as a reasonable trade - off, given that natural gas will be a low - cost, clean, sustainable energy alternative.

Production of high carbon emission should not get rewarded through carbon trading.

States with low existing renewable energy capacities, respectively, with low potentials for adding more renewable energy capacity, and which have a high projected coal power dependency, are going to be in a world of economic hurt, come a carbon «Cap & Trade» law.

MA at 396:» I submit that when the costs of AGW are internalized via a carbon tax, the higher price of gasoline will persuade more Hummer drivers to trade them for Priuses (or bicycles, if the price of gas goes high enough) than public shaming will.»

The high - end scenario here only models the 17 percent reduction from an economy - wide measure such as a cap - and - trade program as the extent of the U.S. contribution to global carbon abatement.

After getting off to a slow start — at first, European governments set the carbon caps so high that many power companies were profiting from the credits without having to cut their emissions — the trade started to balloon suspiciously late last year.

This is equivalent to a $ 15 per ton carbon tax, or about 4 times as high as Europe's carbon trading price.

And with a robust emissions trading program, Pennsylvania could generate significant carbon revenues that could be used to support high - quality jobs in renewable energy and energy efficiency, strengthen disadvantaged communities, make buildings and infrastructure more resilient, and boost economic development in regions dependent on the fossil - fuel economy.

While Abbott used to characterise the trade of international credits as «money that shouldn't be going offshore into dodgy carbon farms in Equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan», the climate review says «access to high - quality international units will provide greater flexibility to business and government in meeting emissions reduction targets».

More recently, David represents Citi Bank in a dishonest assistance claim litigated in the Financial List of the High Court and acts for RBS in an # 87m VAT fraud dispute concerning the trade in carbon credits.