Sentences with phrase «meaningful tax on carbon»

Did you hear the speech that Al Gore gave in Texas the other day saying that the oil industry should take climate change more seriously, that oil could peak in the next decade, that the «social acceptance» for oil was disappearing, that there needed to be a meaningful tax on carbon emissions and that he «strongly supported» the Paris climate agreement?

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Australia's carbon tax plan is flawed not because it ignores exports, it relies on dodgy offsets, makes promises that can not be met or incorrectly suggests that pricing incentives will make a meaningful difference (though all of these things are the case).

Another nice article from Inside Climate News on Exxon, this time on whether the company's alleged support of a carbon tax is meaningful or just a way to oppose other regulation of greenhouse gases.

Worldwide, proposals for carbon taxes, cap - and - trade programs and meaningful CO2 reductions have foundered on a lack of political consensus.

Heritage Foundation research has found that any sort of carbon tax, cap and trade, or other combination of carbon regulations such as the regulations on new power plants and existing ones (the Clean Power Plan) will only kill jobs and cut income, all without having any meaningful impact on global temperatures, now or in the future.

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.