Sentences with phrase «modest carbon tax»

The best course, he says, would be to adopt a modest carbon tax — because there are certainly some ill effects of global warming — and adjust it as we learn more.

A modest carbon tax can be raised over time once voters are reassured that it doesn't cost jobs or pinch their wallets excessively.

Exclusive: Washington State's rejection of a modest carbon tax — opposed by some environmentalists for not being larger — marks a reversal for what could have been a model for the U.S., writes Jonathan Marshall.

Asking developing countries to adopt a modest carbon tax is much easier than asking them to accept an arbitray cap limit, and run a market that they have neither the expertise, bureaucracy, nor technology to create.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

A phase out of remaining coal plants, most of which were already due to be decommissioned under the former Harper government's legislation, and a modest carbon tax, were also included.

Experience in British Columbia shows that even a modest carbon tax can reduce emissions significantly without harming the economy.

In a policy study written by Catrina Rorke, R Street's director of energy policy, the institute says even a modest carbon tax will bring big results: «The price doesn't have to be large.

You've proposed a modest carbon tax, but how would even that happen?

In his book, Lomborg proposes that a modest carbon tax could pay for all of this work at a fraction the cost of a cap on emissions of greenhouse gases, the approach pursued by Europe under the Kyoto Protocol (and rejected in the United States).

British Columbia and Alberta have already introduced modest carbon taxes; Ontario and Quebec have embryonic cap - and - trade systems that allow polluters to buy and sell a limited number of emissions permits.

Not exact matches

But I find it hard to reconcile the group's financial support for Climate Depot with its rhetorical embrace of Richard Smalley's vision of a sustainable energy future — which was premised on an inevitable transition away from carbon - rich fuels and included a modest tax on liquid fuels.

Guardian: Oliver Tickell: Don't let the carbon market dieThe Copenhagen climate change conference achieved too little, but a modest global carbon tax would make amends.»

Still this seems a reasonable argument that a carbon tax has only modest benefits.

Guardian: Oliver Tickell: Don't let the carbon market dieThe Copenhagen climate change conference achieved too little, but a modest global carbon tax would make amends Some people have good reason to be shocked that banks have pulled out of the carbon market, not least recent economics graduates whose dissertations on carbon finance now qualify them only for unemployment.

At the current rate of warming, we have about a century before a possibly catastrophic warming occurs (2 degC more) so a modest, but not extreme, carbon tax wouldn't be unreasonable.

The good news is that we could insulate ourselves from catastrophic risk at relatively modest cost by enacting a steep carbon tax.

Most of the modest and short - term reductions in emissions seem to be related primarily to the 2008 global recession, not to the carbon tax.

If you want to discuss a modest and increasing fossil carbon tax, along the lines of the Hartwell paper, along with how to spend it, I'm open.

According to Statistics Norway, the relation between carbon taxes and reduced rates showed the tax implementation attributed a very modest 2 % reduction — at very high rates of taxation.

There is much debate as to the extent that the carbon tax itself caused prices to rise, as opposed to other factors like capital upgrades, with one estimate putting the tax's increase on electricity prices at a modest 9 %.

«COTAP has a proven and longstanding commitment to poverty - alleviating carbon projects, they're very transparent and modest about their margins, and they place the tool of carbon offsets at the fingertips of individuals as a tax - deductible donation and in increments as small as 1 tonne.»

The revenue could come either from auctioning pollution permits, a «wires fee» on electricity use, a modest tax on carbon, or a mix of all three.

Even a modest «carbon tax» is a volunteer method of increased pressure.

[W] e could insulate ourselves from catastrophic [climate] risk at relatively modest cost by enacting a steep carbon tax.

For years I have opposed steps like a Federal carbon tax or cap and trade system because I believe (and still believe) them to be unnecessary given the modest amount of man - made warming I expect over the next century.