Sentences with phrase «implemented global carbon tax»

According to the modeling group led by William Nordhaus, a Yale professor widely considered to be the world's leading expert on this kind of assessment, an optimally designed and implemented global carbon tax would provide an expected net benefit of around $ 3 trillion, or about 0.2 percent of the present value of global GDP over the next several centuries.

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If you're concerned about a further delay in devising and implementing a carbon tax, well it's an ill wind that blows us all some good there in the form of a global recession / depression.

If Obama really wants to make a lasting impact on global warming, he can work across the aisle or across the Pacific in Beijing, to work toward implementing a meaningful, economy - wide carbon tax as quickly as possible.

I believe the president's meme on global warming is being used to implement a carbon tax.

I suggest there is no credible evidence that carbon taxes will succeed in achieving global GHG emissions reductions, but they will damage the economies that implement them and, therefore, will reduce well - being and make those economies less able to afford effective policies.

These are: Implement a «carbon tax» (or make polluters pay); impose really tough emission standards; create a secure global trade regime in low carbon fuels; develop ways of financing the transfer of the best available technology for creating and, more importantly, saving energy; and require governments to invest in research and early - stage innovation.