Sentences with phrase «needed carbon tax»

Now just one more thing, how about using some of the income from the much needed carbon tax to finance energy efficient housing at mass transit stops.

When this comfort - zone character says we need a carbon tax and a big technology push, that takes away the comfort zone for folks.

The politician who says «We need a carbon tax» knows that his words will be twisted by demagogues into «Politician X wants to increase your taxes,» and that the attack will work.

And, with the latest McKinsey report, it becomes even more clear that, if we want to substantially reduce emissions, we will either need a carbon tax, a cap - and - trade approach, or a whole bunch of specific individual regulations aimed at encouraging and prompting the many individual emission reduction opportunities.

The devil is always in the detail so let's wait and see what the French proposals are but we need carbon taxes urgently as the background for improving on current and developing new technology.

You can't have it both ways: insist that we need carbon taxes, or at least cap and trade, and then feign pain about consumers facing high gas prices.

Jo Nova says «so who needs a carbon tax then?»

If fossil fuel power is to becomes physically impossible or will run out you don't need a carbon tax to stop it, do you!

We need a carbon tax, collected and returned to US citizens, to force the big fossil fuel producers to get serious about alternative energy sources and move away from coal, oil and gas as quickly as possible.

EPA's war with California proves America needs a carbon tax Dana Nuccitelli - Find Climate Answers

EPA's war with California proves America needs a carbon tax Dana Nuccitelli — Auto Glass Replacement

We also need a carbon tax.

The world needs a carbon tax, and an international mechanism to see that it falls on the citizens of each country more or less equally.

Not exact matches

Governments, for their part, must establish the needed incentives, like a carbon tax, which many oil and gas companies claim to support.

The Conservatives bought radio ads last year accusing NDP leader Thomas Mulcair, who backed cap and trade during his leadership bid, of a «carbon tax» plan that «would make everything you need cost more.»

To fix that, B.C. needs a stronger carbon tax and new and improved regulations that cover a broader range of emissions.

No jurisdiction in the country needs to contemplate the need for carbon taxes more urgently than Alberta.

If you don't think people consume too much by way of fossil fuels, then there's no need for a carbon tax.»

In the 2008 federal election, Opposition Leader Stéphane Dion also tried but failed to convince the public of the need for a carbon tax, despite Canadians» support for action on climate change.

He will also address the upcoming Earth Day holiday, and New York's need for 100 % clean energy by 2030, stopping all new fossil fuel infrastructure, and enacting a carbon tax.

Higher taxes on domestic flights and improved public transport are needed if Britain is to cut carbon emissions by 80 per cent before 2050, a Conservative policy group has said.

Emitting CO2 would need to cost at least $ 30 per metric ton via a carbon tax or a cap and trade market for any of the various carbon capture and sequestration technologies to be economically competitive, according to the report.

«When you start talking about climate change and the need for major changes, carbon taxes and lifestyle changes, [conservatives] see this as a threat to capitalism and future prosperity,» said McCright.

Both candidates, however, need to answer a crucial question: Why cap - and - trade when so many policy experts, seeing the troubles with carbon trading in Europe, now recommend a simpler carbon tax?

Half the savings in emissions needed to reach this target were originally to have been made through carbon taxes.

A price on carbon need not take the form of cap and trade or a carbon tax.

We will also need to look at higher gasoline taxes, carbon - emissions levies and perhaps even a national value - added tax.

He drew the line at trading the Clean Power Plan, President Obama's regulatory program aimed at power plants, for a federal carbon tax, saying more than one program is needed to cut emissions.

«Over the longer term,» says Bradley Campbell, the former commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection and now chief counsel to the PurGen project, «we're going to need a price on carbon, whether it's a tax or cap - and - trade legislation, for this plant to meet its potential.»

Computer models play a significant role in environmental policy, but offer only a partial picture of the industrial system Whether it's electric automobiles, renewable energy, carbon tax or sustainable consumption: Sustainable development requires strategies that meet people's needs without harming the environment.

They exchanged ideas for more joint approaches as island nations dependent on tourism, and they all agreed on the need for long - haul tourism destinations such as the Caribbean islands and the Indian Ocean Vanilla Islands to work together to continue to lobby against the UK Carbon Tax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industTax, which is working against the continued consolidation of tourism as an industry for these island nations who have worked tirelessly and made sacrifices to protect their environment which is today compensating the carbon emission from the developed world who are today imposing a carbon tax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industtax that is affecting tourism and travel, the industry that remains their main industry.

NO need to get into the politics of it, of ETS or carbon tax or Regulation or whatever.

If local solar is indeed cheaper than fossil fuels, there is no need for carbon taxes to make fossil fuels more expensive — market forces will ensure the switch all by themselves.

Ultimately, we need to institute carbon taxes so that Nanos, SUVs, and city buses all pay according to what comes out of their tailpipes.

Bradley McKinley: «If local solar is indeed cheaper than fossil fuels, there is no need for carbon taxes to make fossil fuels more expensive — market forces will ensure the switch all by themselves.»

The first step in this is to make electricity from coal much more expensive because the utilities will need to generate the money to pay the carbon tax (or offsets or whatever you want to call them).

Some people have unwisely taken that logic to the extreme and suggested that if the US and other innovating nations just pushed hard on technology that there wouldn't be much need for emission limits, cap and trade or carbon taxes.

That's an important subject, of course, but I do not see in either post (# 21 or # 22) an answer to my question: Do you support a «price» for carbon that would need to come about through either a «cap - and - trade» system, a «cap - and - auction» system, or a carbon tax?

Authorities believe the suspects purchased the carbon permits outside of Britain, where they didn't need to pay Britain's Value Added Tax (VAT).

It probably needs some form of tax payer support, if its to grow fast enough to be a factor as a carbon sink.

As usual it is the liberal idea of subsidizing AGW and then proposing a carbon tax to shuffle the money around in a pointless tax and spend that can't possibly work, compared to an actual conservative approach of paying a fair price for a needed service in the open market that contrasts the two options available.

I think we really need to be pushing the idea of global carbon / resource rent taxes.

Many presenters acknowledged the daunting political hurdles in Washington, which were most vividly described by Representative Bob Inglis, a Republican of South Carolina who was defeated in his primary race largely, he said, over his stance on global warming and the need for a carbon tax.

We need a lively debate on whether to leave these kinds of climate science efforts behind, and focus instead on socio - political measures to «hit the brakes hard» — whether those be carbon taxes, carbon rationing (probably the most direct and effective means), or whatever.

In my view (and I've seen energy and environment close up in every election since Pres. Nixon's rather revolutionary Environmental Message of the early 1970s == too bad there was that third rate break in to spoil his record) the tests for all the candidates will be whether they will substiture oil taxes for off - oil subsidies, carbon taxes to level the whole field, and then and only then decide where we need to push or pull a bit (like with the fuel economy standards, long over due, and boy will they take a long time to arrive in full force.)

There is no need for carbon taxes or exchanges or carbon sequestration or the Kyoto treaty or IPCC, or Al Gore or worrying about methane burps..

He may not be quite 100 % on the relative merits of a carbon tax vs. cap and trade, but he has most of the basic issues right, including the need for an auction.

In other words, Google's great initiative should not be seen as a reason to dodge the need for a carbon tax or a robust carbon cap combined with a genuine, credible, carbon credit trading market.

We are already paying a regressive carbon tax of a sort through the Iraq War, with billions being diverted from community needs and thousands of lives lost in the effort to control Iraq's oil resources.

We definitely need some sort of mechanism to assign a cost / price to carbon emissions, but that could be a carbon tax of some sort rather than a cap - and - trade system.