Sentences with phrase «low carbon taxes»

Ways to raise the money include a low carbon tax or sales of cap - and - trade permits, or from government revenue.

However, while exemptions may in effect mean lower carbon taxes in other countries, this does not change the fact that Singapore's S$ 5 tax, or US$ 3.80 at time of writing, is on the lower end of the spectrum of global carbon tax rates.

A low carbon tax fared slightly worse, while the high carbon tax has been completely rejected by readers.

Fortunately, RGGI's design built in a «price floor,» a minimum price for each «allowance» (or pollution permit), which made the system function like a very low carbon tax of $ 2 per ton of CO2 until 2013.

The two of us disagree about how best to price carbon, with one of us favoring carbon trading across countries and trace gases, while the other favors a low carbon tax to finance clean energy innovation.

There are a fair number of rather cheap reductions out there that could be stimulated by a low carbon tax, but after a while you use those up, and have to have a higher tax to induce more.

Australia has tried to get around this problem by subsidizing its relatively low carbon tax with broader income - tax reform — that is, the government is returning to consumers more money than is collected by the tax.

Palmer United Senator - elect Jacqui Lambie briefly advocated a «lot lower carbon tax at 3 or 4 per cent» (did she mean dollars?)

Not exact matches

While the province's five - year - old carbon tax means BC residents pay higher pump prices, offsetting cuts to their personal income tax have left them with the lowest tax rates in the country.

The study said the carbon tax would lower pollution by 20 per cent by 2050 and prevent oil imports from rising.

For example, Recommendation 5 states «That the federal government reaffirm is already strong commitment to keep taxes low and not impose on Canadians any form of carbon tax that would harm key sectors of the economy, while passing the costs on to Canadian families».

The second group that gains from a carbon tax are those prefer a lower carbon lifestyle, and can afford to indulge their preferences.

A reduction in income or consumption taxes, financed by an increase in carbon taxes, would be a clear gain for the higher income, lower carbon demographic.

«carbon - intensive industries will relocate to other countries that choose not to regulate emissions [lower taxes & regulations in general].»

The issue figures to feature prominently in the next federal election, with Liberal Leader Stà © phane Dion arguing the benefits of a carbon tax, while NDP Leader Jack Layton makes the case that cap - and - trade would do a better job of putting the costs on big polluters rather than on low - income families.

The carbon tax in particular has been championed as a tax on the wealthy, when in fact, it's the lower and middle class who are most affected by this tax on everything.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

The decisions the current Government takes on transport to tackle the dual challenges of climate change and rising oil prices could have significant repercussions for many years to come... Friends of the Earth is calling on the Government to: «Change direction on transport policy - and aim to rapidly move towards a low - carbon transport system... Vehicle Excise Duty must be changed to make road tax on gas - guzzlers more expensive - and cheaper for greener cars...»

The letter from the 11 county Democratic chairpeople lauds Hein for lowering property taxes, working to end homelessness among military veterans and striving to make Ulster County carbon - neautral.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

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.

A lax tax Taxes on high - carbon activities can trigger catalytic shifts towards low - carbon societies...

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

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I like the carbon tax like the one Australia introduced this week to create an incentive not just to invent new low - carbon technologies but also to deploy them.

Either way, lower - to - middle income taxpayers would see a shifting of their tax burden out of the income tax and into the carbon tax.

A revenue - neutral carbon tax is also beloved by economists, since it involves raising taxes on something our society wants less of — pollution — and using the money to lower taxes on the productive economic activities we want more of, such as paid work.

Under President Obama's Climate Action Plan, the United States has acted under existing laws to cut emissions with sector - specific policies, including: emissions regulations; tax incentives for clean energy technologies; standards for energy - efficient appliances, buildings, and vehicles; and voluntary partnership programs to address market barriers to low - carbon strategies.

No hypothecating, i.e., you tax carbon and spend it on low carbon stuff.

Taxing carbon pollution will spur everyone — businesses, consumers and policymakers — to reduce climate - damaging emissions, invest in efficient energy systems and develop low - carbon energy sources.

A carbon tax will raise energy prices, but lower and middle income people, especially, will find ways to reduce carbon emissions so as to come out ahead.

I also note that the canadian province of British Colombia is read to impose a carbon tax (with a lowering of income taxes) in a scant 7 days.

So bring on the carbon tax, lower other taxes, and we shall muddle through, and Jim Hansen's 20 years shall not be spent in vain.

A carbon tax of $ 100 / ton would raise way over $ 100 billion, allowing real cuts in payroll taxes or lower bracket income taxes etc..

A carbon tax enacted today that is immediately and completely successful at eliminating all U.S. CO2 emission would lower rise in temperature expected by the end of the century around 10 %.

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.

Second, a carbon tax would obviate the need for regulation of carbon dioxide and for subsidies to low - carbon energy.

• Lifting the targets to 25 - 40 % by 2020 based on the latest scientific evidence • • Abolishing the free permits granted to the biggest polluters • • Ensuring that individual action results in lower emissions, not lower carbon prices • Unless these major flaws in the CPRS can be fixed the government should introduce a carbon tax as a matter of urgency.

More broadly, a carbon tax would not just move shipping and aviation down the fossil fuel demand curve; it would create a new, lower demand curve by boosting every substitute for, and every alternative to, high - carbon activity.

Even there, they ignore the regressive effect a carbon tax without rebate will have on the lower economic spectrum.

But rather than lowering an existing tax, it relies on a so - called tax - and - dividend model: As the state of Alaska does with oil revenues, revenues from the Council's national carbon tax would be returned equally to all American households in quarterly «dividends» digitally deposited in Social Security accounts.

The regressive impact of carbon taxes could be addressed by using tax revenues to favour low - income groups.

Having said that, it's generally expected to pass — the Labor Party, The Greens, and several independents have said they'll support it, and the opposition (generally opposed to anything climate - related) don't have the numbers to block it, although they've promised to repeal it if elected in 2013 (although the total package has been cleverly built, so to repeal it, they'll have to promise to raise taxes on the low & middle income brackets, cut aged & disability pensions, and rely on the «goodwill» of large corporations to lower prices for electricity & other carbon - intensive goods).

To avoid one of the biggest downsides of a carbon tax — slower economic growth — as much as 50 percent of the revenue should be used to lower corporate tax rates for all companies.

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.

Because these types of distortions impose societal costs beyond those of a simple carbon tax, the economic impacts modeled here will, if anything, be lower than would actually occur in a regulatory scheme.

Republicans generally argue that a carbon tax would hurt the economy by boosting energy prices on fossil fuels, but some conservatives have supported the idea as a way to offset lower personal taxes.

A lax tax Taxes on high - carbon activities can trigger catalytic shifts towards low - carbon societies...

Some have accepted the logic that something is better than nothing, even arguing that a «tax swap» could substitute for a just transition to a low - carbon economy.

People would pay a tax or a fee on either the carbon they emit or the fossil fuels they purchase to incentivize lower usage as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.