Sentences with phrase «levy on carbon emissions»

Even putting a levy on carbon emissions, either through a carbon tax or carbon - emission permits, will not be sufficient.

So I returned to my original question: But the Harper government is open to considering a levy on carbon emissions?

These goals will be achieved through a progressive carbon tax system, which place levies on carbon emissions.

Not exact matches

Regardless of whether the fuel source is coal, gasoline, diesel, natural gas, or propane the tax doesn't discriminate, levying a $ 30 per tonne charge on emissions from all carbon fuels.

The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve: by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power companies to engage with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.

An up - to - date coal plant costs about $ 3,000 a kilowatt, but charges levied on carbon dioxide emissions, or extra equipment to capture the gas instead, could add substantially to that.

By basing the levy on emissions rather than carbon all greenhouse gases stand on a common level, sequestration is strongly encouraged as well as such simple things as capturing methane from oil wells and garbage dumps (that gets built into the cost of disposal).

Funding will come from a two per cent levy on revenues generated by the clean development mechanism, the scheme allowing industrialised nations to pay for carbon credits produced by emission - reduction projects in the developing world and credit them against their own emissions targets.

These measures include levying a price on carbon emissions, eliminating tax subsidies for fossil fuels and ending implicit subsidies, such as leasing federal lands that contain coal or oil at rates below the fair market rate.

In essence, the carbon tariff, if enacted, would assess a levy on goods being imported into the Unites States from countries that do not enact controls on carbon emissions based on the carbon content of the good.

The Australian federal government's effort to levy a tax on carbon - dioxide emissions to battle supposed «climate change» is facing massive resistance from voters, despite a flurry of pro-carbon-tax propaganda and government - funded reports touting alleged benefits of the scheme while downplaying its harmful effects.

Parties were also considering how to increase funds for adaptation through the carbon market, with discussions focusing on extending the current 2 % levy on mitigation projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) to the other Kyoto mechanisms, Joint Implementation and Emissions Trading, Mr. de Boer said.

But the way it plans to do so is much more interesting than your typical «buy a bunch of offsets» emissions - reduction scheme — instead, the company is creating a «carbon price and charge back model» that will levy fees on each of its various internal business groups for the emissions they generate.

A whole good idea would be to make a payroll - tax holiday the first step in an orderly transition to scrapping the payroll tax altogether and replacing the lost revenue with a package of levies on things that, unlike jobs, we want less rather than more of — things like pollution, carbon emissions, oil imports, inefficient use of energy and natural resources, and excessive consumption.

Hansen describes it as a «flat, across - the - board rising fee on carbon emissions» that would be levied on fossil fuels at a domestic mine or port of entry.