Sentences with phrase «implementing carbon taxes»

Yet much of the policy discussion is focused on implementing carbon taxes or cap and trade schemes, with an often - unstated expectation that the technologies exist to achieve decarbonisation, or will emerge more or less spontaneously.

The GST revenues from carbon taxes could rise significantly once every province has implemented the carbon tax or cap and trade plan by next year.

One of the arguments that I continue to hear is that Alberta and Canada should not implement a carbon tax because Donald Trump does not support a carbon tax.

Phillips is one of the government's smartest cabinet ministers, and has done a good job promoting the flagship Climate Leadership Plan, but the NDP have fallen short when it comes to easing Albertans worries about the cost of implementing the carbon tax during an economic downturn.

South Korea is launching the world's second biggest carbon market next year, South Africa is planning to implement a carbon tax in 2016, and Chile in 2018.

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.

Indeed, because when they implemented the carbon tax, the BC government paid forward the first year — delivering checks to everyone in the province to cover the full year's revenues — there was no rise in energy cost, even temporary.

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.

Implementing a carbon tax in the United States could raise $ 1.6 to $ 3.6 trillion over a decade.

Meanwhile, some key Republicans continue to espouse the false notion that a carbon tax would hurt the state economy, despite clear evidence to the contrary from multiple studies and the experience implementing a carbon tax in British Columbia.

The Canadian province of British Columbia implemented a carbon tax on certain fossil fuels in July of 2008.

I would say yes, hoping for a time when all people older than you are dead so you can implement carbon taxes will appear to those in the mainstream as radical.

According to one former member of the White House Climate Change Task Force under President Clinton, President Obama may have plans to implement a carbon tax as soon as the fiscal cliff negotiations are settled.

The IEA has no right to suggest, tell, order, or lobby our government to raise the gasoline tax or implement a carbon tax.

It is nothing but a compilation and regurgitation with spin focused on forcing / supporting the United States to implement a carbon tax.

Simple Explanation: SB 5930, introduced by Senator Guy Palumbo, would implement a carbon tax of $ 15 per ton, rising $ 2.50 per year to an eventual rate of $ 30 per ton.

In the past, when I've raised this international trade aspect here at CE (a paradigm used by leading World Economists), there has been no objective comments to this «big picture view» of the SCC — say, to discuss why China is implementing a carbon tax?

RFF experts Arthur G. Fraas and Nathan Richardson examined the questions associated with implementing a carbon tax versus regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act, looking at issues including scope, cost - effectiveness, ability to generate revenue, and the impact on international climate negotiations for either policy approach — finding that «there's no easy answer to whether regulation or a carbon price is the better instrument.»

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

In 2008, British Columbia implemented a carbon tax, with the revenue returned to citizens through lowered income taxes.

Their SCC calculation — in keeping with the playbook of the president's Climate Action Plan — is a backdoor way of implementing a carbon tax.

If the US Congress passed the law implementing the carbon tax you support - how much would US emissions be reduced?

The Canadian province of British Columbia implemented a carbon tax in 2008.

■» European countries and Australia are backing away from their emission reductions policies as they realize their economic cost and political unpopularity» Do not discount the Gallic folly... as Hollande and his minions will implement a carbon tax as a bargain with the EU tolerating their abysmal record on deficit reduction...

With the NAU and SPP proposals on board with the Bush administration, now Bloomberg wants to implement a carbon tax?

I checked out what Tom Steyer is doing with climate and it appears funding efforts to implement a carbon tax is not even on his radar.

By many accounts it may be politically a non-starter right now in the United States, but nevertheless implementing a carbon tax is the best way to rein in rising carbon emissions and combat climate change.

But basically, it's hard to know how the ingenuity of market participants will play out, which is why the basic idea seems to have been to implement a carbon tax or cap - and - trade system with some initial guess of price, then adjust it after more data comes in.

Yesterday, the Alberta government released a plan with three main areas of focus: phasing out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030; implementing the carbon tax in two phases; and capping oilsands emissions at 100 megatonnes.

Not exact matches

«And a carbon tax can be more easily implemented.

In contrast to Alberta's largely cosmetic Specified Gas Emitters Regulation that does little to curb emissions or raise revenue for the province, British Columbia has implemented a much more comprehensive carbon tax.

They also propose to introduce a personal income tax rate of 35 % on taxable incomes above $ 250,000; introduce a carbon tax of $ 30 a tonne on July 1, 2015 with about half of the money collected returned in the form of a green tax refund, which would be income tested; and implementing an inheritance tax on estates in excess of $ 5 million.

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.

The NDP also cut the small business tax from three percent to two percent, a change that came into effect as the carbon tax was implemented.

If I - 732 succeeds at the polls, we hope that it can serve as a model for other states to implement their own carbon tax systems.

The biggest problem with a «carbon tax» is implementing it on a world wide scale.

The carbon tax — if it is ever actually implemented or sustained — is really just a sideshow and largely irrelevant to accelerating the decarbonization of Australia's economy.

I'm still not sure (one way or another) whether a carbon tax or cap - and - trade would be best, and it might be that either could work as long as it's implemented wisely.

Meanwhile, British Columbia has implemented a revenue - neutral carbon tax, despite the general unpopularity of taxes.

Do you support, and will you implement, a «carbon tax» OR a robust carbon cap combined with a regulated mechanism of carbon credit trading?

To be more precise, the United States should implement steep carbon taxes that hit coal, heating oil, and natural gas.

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.

The REMI report illustrates that we could go a long way towards solving the climate threat by implementing a bipartisan revenue - neutral carbon tax.

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.

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.

He insisted no other country is going «anywhere near» carbon taxes or trading schemes — apparently having never heard of carbon taxes and ETS's and pilot programs implemented and planned throughout the 27 states of Europe, Scandinavia, New Zealand, South Korea, China, California, a bunch of other American states and Canadian provinces, South Africa and Mexico.

Implementing border adjustments for an economywide carbon tax or cap - and - trade program would require determining the GHG emissions embodied in imports (that is, the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in producing each imported good and service), which would be extremely difficult if applied to most imports (but not if applied only to imports of fossil fuels).

But if we get to point where electric can do everything needed and taxes whether on engines or carbon are not getting use down low enough then at some distant point (that we are not close to) govt might prefer to implement ban rather than continually raising carbon tax rate.

There is much talk of a carbon tax to create the right economic incentives, but only a few ineffectual «carbon markets» have been implemented.