Sentences with phrase «implemented carbon pricing»

Fortunately, some governments have listened to these economists and implemented carbon pricing systems, as discussed above, but more action is necessary.

He says some of the provinces have already implemented carbon pricing, so the federal government will be left to â $ œoverseeâ $.

British Columbia implemented carbon pricing seven years ago.

Some say implementing carbon pricing now will hurt the Canadian economy by making it harder for Canada to compete with the United States, which has no such policy.

A 2015 report by Canada's EcoFiscal Commission sheds light on the issue of energy intensive trade exposed business sectors, and the need to consider competiveness implications in shaping and implementing carbon pricing mechanisms.

The Climate Reality Project and its founder and chairman, former US Vice President Al Gore, have long worked to build support for implementing carbon pricing mechanisms on a global scale.

Not only would implementing a carbon price alone not work (h / t Tyler Cowen), emphasizing a carbon price alone only hurts addressing our energy challenges by swaying the energy policy debate away from actual methods of spurring affordable energy innovations.

Until the issue is considered a top priority by voters, there is no pressure for policymakers to implement carbon pricing.

The principles are aimed at helping policymakers to find a balance when implementing a carbon pricing instrument that achieves three main objectives:

Businesses and individuals are reticent about policies such as carbon pricing that could increase energy costs for consumers, particularly in states that currently have low costs, even if implementing a carbon pricing program would be more cost effective in the long term, the regulators observed.

The Canadian province of Ontario looks poised to follow the lead of other jurisdictions in Canada and in the United States by implementing a carbon pricing program, with provincial regulators asking for opinions on what type of program should be implemented.

In terms of climate change, there is no more practical approach than implementing a carbon pricing system so that the costs of climate change are reflected in the price of the products which cause them.

Meanwhile, New York is seriously considering instituting a carbon charge approach to pricing in its markets, and a 2017 PJM working paper raised the possibility of implementing a carbon price either across the PJM footprint or on a sub-regional basis.

Washington and Oregon would to some extent level the playing field and reduce leakage, should they actually implement carbon prices.

All lines except «Copenhagen» and «0.5 Copen Partic» assume the whole world implements a carbon price in unison in 2010, and the pricing scheme covers 100 % of human - caused GHG emissions.

It is high time for the US to adopt its own global market standard by implementing carbon pricing as an economy - wide, market - based solution against climate change.

Starting this year every Canadian province will be required to implement carbon pricing — either with the carbon tax or a cap and trade system.

Not exact matches

CB: Would it make it easier for you folks if Canada implemented a price on carbon, even without the Americans?

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

Carbon taxes are a lot more complicated to implement and can create perverse incentives for nonparticipating countries to burn more carbon — because fuel prices fall as demand goes down.

To achieve this, the federal government committed to implementing a national carbon pricing «backstop» that would apply in any province or territory that does not have a carbon pricing system in place by 2018 that is consistent with the federal scheme.

Indeed, blue states have shown little appetite for implementing an economywide price on carbon, widely viewed by economists and policymakers as the most effective way to tackle carbon emissions.

Carbon pricing globally — already implemented or planned by some 42 countries and 25 states, provinces and cities but there is an urgent need for higher carbon prices.

Michael Le Page describes the international community implementing a global carbon pricing scheme and imposing carbon tariffs on goods produced...

Michael Le Page describes the international community implementing a global carbon pricing scheme and imposing carbon tariffs on goods produced in the US (8 April, p 22).

The Paris agreement does mention carbon pricing but doesn't require anyone to implement it.

To overcome this carbon entanglement, countries need to implement strong climate policies, including strengthening carbon pricing and....»

The key is to make the alternatives better through some sort of carbon price, however you want to implement that.

These include 70 countries with feed - in tariffs; two dozen countries with renewable portfolio standards (RPS); 37 countries with production or investment tax credits for renewables; and some 40 countries implementing or planning carbon pricing.

To achieve these goals, the report recommended that the federal government implement a nationwide price on carbon and eliminate subsidies to Canada's fossil fuel industry — particularly, its tar sands industry.

A «pre-pay» carbon pricing system would have a number of significant challenges to implement.

Now is the time to cut fossil fuel subsidies and implement a carbon tax, it argues, as the low oil price reduces the policies» effect on consumers.

I'd argue we should not be implementing costly and economically damaging carbon pricing policies (like Australia's CO2 tax and ETS) on the basis of such papers.

While the price to implement carbon sequestering farming techniques are already in line with current carbon pricing schemes (at cost around $ 10 / ton of carbon sequestered), further development could bring these prices down even further.

Regardless of the mechanism chosen, any carbon pricing system implemented should be Revenue Neutral so that the government does not become dependent on the revenue from the fee, tax or trade credits.

At this session, we considered current issues and concerns involved with implementing climate policies, especially how pricing carbon pollution can impact economic competitiveness.

These FRCs (Formerly Rich Countries) have implemented low - carbon energy policies and penalties that have strangled their economies, dramatically increased energy prices and killed millions of jobs.

While city, state, and national leaders gather at the UN Climate Talks to launch and implement platforms and agendas that promote carbon trading, carbon offsets, and REDD +, the Indigenous Environmental Network and the Climate Justice Alliance take a bold stance to reject and challenge these so - called innovative solutions by releasing the «Carbon Pricing Report: A Critical Perspective for Community Resistance.»

A price on carbon will create an economic incentive to reduce emissions from the electricity, heating, and transportation sectors, and will also create a revenue stream that can be used to fund programs needed to implement the Clean Energy DC Plan.

This section explores possible high - level mechanics for implementing some aspects of a global - pricing treaty in order to show that there are possible solutions to the design problems presented by a global carbon price commitment.

Implementing a global carbon price requires meeting several practical challenges related to the agreement's structure:

So how do we ensure that the countries with national carbon pricing systems keep and strengthen them, and convince the countries without such national systems to implement them?

Both the provinces of coastal British Columbia and oil - sands - rich Alberta have implemented some version of a carbon tax or a hybrid carbon pricing scheme.

The scheme was implemented at a time when it was assumed many others would follow suit with carbon pricing, says Finlayson.

INDC - extended: INDCs implemented until 2030, with extrapolation of energy sector and carbon pricing policies afterwards.

According to a new report published on World Bank Group on carbon pricing, by 2015, the number of implemented or planned carbon pricing schemes around the world has almost doubled since 2012.

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Since these conservatives have successfully blocked attempts to implement a cap and trade or other carbon pricing system, we are left with government regulation (via the EPA and its endangerment finding) as the only alternative to reduce GHG emissions from large emitters.

Oil and gas giants are betting the shop on a carbon price being implemented in order to tackle climate change.

Some of the policy instruments that economists have long espoused, but politicians feared — carbon pricing and fossil fuel subsidy reform — are being implemented successfully around the world.