Sentences with phrase «of a price on carbon»

This enables us to analyze the impact of a price on carbon on various investment opportunities.

Learn about the impacts of a price on carbon pollution on households, businesses, and the climate.

Despite the lack of a price on carbon, he points out a few states are keeping nuclear power plants open.

People are unsure of the benefits of a price on carbon, how it affects them, their jobs and the economy.

Each has upsides and downsides which are worth debating, but the important first step is to remedy this market failure and put some sort of price on carbon emissions.

While these spillover scenarios could entail a variety of serious costs to the United States the question for New York is whether the surety of increased costs of a price on carbon to our wholesale electric market is appropriate relative to those speculative effects.

Coal remains cheaper, but when you factor in the reduced capital cost (gas plants cost between a quarter and a third what coal plants of equivalent output do), the life - cycle costs point to gas, even in the absence of a price on carbon emissions.

«It's probably going to require putting some kind of price on carbon.»

And the bulk of the emissions drop is not a consequence of a price on carbon or the cap — as theory would hope — but rather a byproduct of the mild winter in 2009 paired with a collapse in the U.S. economy — both of which reduce the demand for electricity and therefore the amount of CO2 pumped out to create it.

LOTS of excitement after the boss of mining giant BHP Billiton gave a speech in which he said was in favour of a price on carbon and would quite like it if Australia's Labor - led coalition government could get on with it.

«We support the introduction of a price on carbon because this will encourage innovation and investment in the most cost effective ways of reducing carbon emissions widely.»

The carbon - tax solution was also touted last week by panelists at the University of Chicago, who invoked video clips of free - market patron saint Milton Friedman in support of a price on carbon.

«If you really want to get the reduction people are talking about, 80 percent by 2050, it's going to take some sort of price on carbon to get there,» Thornton said.

While Cleetus supports carbon trading as one of many policy tools for tackling global warming, she says: «The carbon market only gets at one market failure: the lack of a price on carbon.

The argument is simply that those efforts will be insufficient; alongside them should be a concerted push for more public investment in disruptive clean energy tech, to drive prices down and make clean energy competitive with dirty, even in the absence of a price on carbon (in, say, China).