Sentences with phrase «national carbon emission cap»

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First, Trudeau had to work with the NDP government in Alberta to twin his plan for a national price on carbon with its provincial plan and with its idea to put an emission cap on the oil sands.

It also stirred confusion about the governor's legal authority and what will happen to the carbon trading program, which caps utility carbon dioxide emissions in 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, at a time when national climate legislation appears dead on Capitol Hill.

The Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois called for a mandatory national cap on carbon emissions, as well as an investment of $ 150 billion over 10 years to develop new energy resources, in order to reduce the country's appetite for foreign oil by 35 percent by 2030.

An effective national climate policy must include several key elements; one effective approach would be a well - designed cap - and - trade program for carbon emissions.

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

It is rather unlikely that China's pilot carbon trading schemes will lead to an economy - wide emission cap in the near future (they might lead to sectoral national schemes first and an economy - wide cap later).

C2ES is working with cities, states, and businesses to explore cap - and - trade, carbon taxes and other market - based strategies for cost - effective emissions reduction, with the ultimate aim of a national market - based climate program.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

National green leaders, who had spent the previous year insisting that progress toward capping U.S. carbon emissions would ensure the successful conclusion of a global emissions - reduction agreement in Copenhagen, pretended like they'd never suggested that the United Nation's climate change conference could ever achieve such an outcome and praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and striking out to reach an agreement — any agreement — among major emitters.

August 28, 2017 / 4:16 AM / 2 days ago From Reuters Reuters Staff SYDNEY (Reuters)-- Australia could adopt a clean energy target by the end of the year, heeding the call of national energy providers and scientists as a means to cut carbon emissions and cap soaring power prices.

So you get the odd spectacle of Smith going before the Senate to denounce cap - and - trade — the widely endorsed idea that the Government should set a national ceiling on carbon emissions and then allow companies to buy and sell pollution credits — on populist grounds.

The 18th Party Congress highlighted trading of various environmental commodities — energy savings, carbon emission rights, pollution discharge rights and water rights — all of which will have a national cap, except carbon emissions.