Sentences with phrase «of national carbon pricing»

Despite our lack of a national carbon pricing mechanism, de Wit says Australia still has something to offer countries that implement them.

Alberta will introduce a $ 15.25 per metric ton tax on 1 January 2017 (rising to $ 22.87 by 2018), but Premier Rachel Notley said in a statement that although the province supports the notion of national carbon pricing, it «will not be supporting this proposal absent serious concurrent progress on energy infrastructure, to ensure we have the economic means to fund these policies.»

Not exact matches

However, the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change lays out a number of policies that will compel more clean tech innovation in Canada, he said, including a price on pollution with a carbon price, to be in place across Canada by the start of next year, as well as a promised national clean fuels strategy, better energy efficiency standards and limits on greenhouse gases like methane.

A national price on carbon in exchange for the twinning of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.

Peter Kent:... One major point of disagreement with the National Roundtable report was, it again recommended carbon pricing.

Trudeau always knew he had small window of time to lock up his national price on carbon and a pipeline.

Trudeau's signature policy, the national price on carbon, was contingent on a series of delicate deals.

The budget re-states Ottawa's goal — a national price on carbon across the country in 2018 — and says to expect a paper outlining «the technical details of the proposed federal carbon pricing backstop mechanism» in the coming months.

Canada's coming national price on carbon adds further fuel to the debate, as some will be looking for Canadian industries affected by the carbon price to get protections, maybe even in the form of a carbon tax applied at the border on goods coming from places in the U.S. where there is no such policy.

On the other side of the border, where even Hillary Clinton wasn't planning a national price on carbon, we expect to see one from Donald Trump precisely never.

This assumption rests on yet another, still more tenuous one: that uncooperative provinces like Saskatchewan and Manitoba are unwilling to commit to a national carbon price, not because of their own particular political interests and liabilities, but because they remain unconvinced that the national climate plan will actually succeed.

No matter, federal jurisdiction over the environment — including the jurisdiction to impose a national price on carbon — may also be based on its taxation power, or on its residual jurisdiction over matters of «national concern» under the Peace, Order, and Good Governance (POGG) power.

«A Trudeau government is also likely to push national carbon pricing, increasing both opportunities for U.S. states to combine carbon markets with Canada and the potential of a pan-North-American carbon market.»

He supports a national carbon price, wants to derive 100 percent of the nation's electricity from clean sources by 2050 and has suggested that he would regulate emitting sectors like industry.

He calculates that in 2012, when the carbon price was introduced, emissions from the National Electricity Market were 95 megatons of CO2 per year.

For many years, there has been a great deal of discussion about carbon - pricing — whether carbon taxes or cap - and - trade — as an essential part of a meaningful national climate policy.

Late last week, Stavins distributed a link to «Both Are Necessary, But Neither is Sufficient: Carbon - Pricing and Technology R&D Initiatives in a Meaningful National Climate Policy,» a defense of the primacy of a rising price on carbon if the goal is deep emissions cuts by mid-century.

CO2 from oil can be further limited via a gradually increasing price on carbon emissions that discourages industry from going to the most extreme environments in the world (such as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Antarctica) to extract every last drop of oil.

The meeting included briefings on the health content of the 2018 National Climate Assessment and the Lancet Countdown reports, presentations on a range of solutions including pricing carbon, accelerating the transition to clean energy, and greening the health sector.

With their unequivocal endorsement of carbon taxes, Legarde and Lee add to the pressure on UN climate negotiators to end two decades of fruitless haggling over national level emissions limits and to focus explicitly on pricing carbon pollution instead.

Although nine (of 33) Chinese regions have run cap - and - trade programs for several years, the national plan will double the global amount of carbon pollution globally that has a price tag attached to it.

China, after years of experience with nine regional carbon pricing programs, is almost ready to institute a national program.

This analytical document provides an up - to - date overview of existing and emerging carbon pricing instruments around the world, including national and subnational initiatives.

Nationwide the coal industry is facing mounting challenges — rising coal costs, falling clean energy prices, a motivated grassroots coalition of organizers working to move the nation off coal, and the growing national demand to tackle climate - disrupting carbon pollution from coal plants.

Policy at the national level must encourage the deployment of clean energy technologies, and include greenhouse gas emission reduction targets (such as those under the Paris Agreement), carbon pricing mechanisms, and investment in energy research, development and demonstration.

While many of the speakers at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas on Monday advocated regulation that already has some sort of legs in Congress, like putting a price on carbon and a national renewable portfolio standard, former President Bill Clinton suggested several alternative ideas that he said could help push clean power and energy efficiency in tNational Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas on Monday advocated regulation that already has some sort of legs in Congress, like putting a price on carbon and a national renewable portfolio standard, former President Bill Clinton suggested several alternative ideas that he said could help push clean power and energy efficiency in tnational renewable portfolio standard, former President Bill Clinton suggested several alternative ideas that he said could help push clean power and energy efficiency in the U.S..

The price of carbon credits has also fallen, while plans to introduce national trading schemes, particularly in the US and Australia, remain uncertain.

Finance Canada is quietly pushing the idea of a federal carbon tax as the Liberal government looks to set a minimum national price and complement provincial carbon pricing plans, sources say.

Officials at Finance are co-chairing the «carbon pricing» working group, one of four federal - provincial - territorial groups established to fashion a national climate strategy that would put the country on the path toward meeting its international commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

We believe those should form an essential part of national and international approaches to climate change for the growing number of countries that decide to use carbon pricing instruments.

Trudeau's Liberals have worked with provincial governments across the country to usher in a nationwide end to coal - fired electricity and a national carbon price, finishing projects begun by the governments of Ontario and British Columbia during the reactionary years in Ottawa.

But states often serve as laboratories of democracy, and a successful carbon tax in Massachusetts could help to broaden support for a national or even global carbon pricing system — if powerful fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil get out of the way.

In this role he leads research work on carbon pricing, peer review of national and sub-national GHG estimates, technical content development, climate finance, trainings & capacity building, and technical review.

For these reasons, carbon - pricing is a necessary component of a truly meaningful national climate policy.

I'll be discussing more about the solar boom, along with the inevitable crash of the carbon bubble — with its potentially dramatic consequences for fossil companies» share prices and some national economies.

Germany, along with Canada, California, and other national and subnational governments, is a key member of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition, a voluntary partnership formed to advance the long - term objective of a carbon price applied throughout the global economy.

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.

If there was a national price for carbon emissions, then other sources of greenhouse gasses would also diminish more quickly than shown.

CTC drafted, convened, and on the eve of the Paris climate summit unveiled a «luminaries» letter» calling on the Paris negotiators to prioritize carbon taxes, both for their own value as the most potent national - level climate policy and as a path to a harmonized global carbon price.

Tuckey is an enthusiast for the tidal power potential of the Kimberley region, as indeed am I. Given the incentives associated with a high enough price for carbon, and reforms to the National Electricity Market to encourage more investment in long - distance transmission lines, there is huge potential in tidal energy.

A new Years of Living Dangerously episode is out featuring Yoram Bauman as he gives the celebrity host, Nikki Reed, a primer on carbon pricing — and later shows up in the episode moderating a panel with millennial leaders including Camilla Thorndike, Jordan Vogel and Tom Erb — read more here and catch the episde on National Geographic http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/story/price-on-carbon/.

Given the urgency of reaching an agreement and the realities of national reluctance, the most fruitful approach is a harmonized carbon price with trade sanctions as a way to prevent countries from free riding on the investments of others.

The Clinton campaign has shown no indication that it intends to call for any form of direct pricing of carbon, such as a carbon tax or a national cap - and - trade system, efforts to address climate change that would require Congressional approval.

Despite Republican fanaticism about all forms of government intervention in the economy, the idea of pricing carbon must remain a part of the national debate.

Just don't get your hopes for any sweeping attempts at a national carbon price or tax — federal legislation is going to be D.O.A. as long as the inertia of the Tea Party still grips Congress.

I think the biggest difference - maker has probably been the indifferent progress of measures to put a price on carbon — complete national - level failure in the US, and with EU measures less than effective.

In terms of renewable energy, «a long - term national commitment» such as a national renewable portfolio standard, carbon price, or long - term renewable energy tax incentives is required.

The Wellington - Halton Hills MP has outlined a detailed plan to introduce a national carbon price that would reach $ 130 a tonne by 2030, and which includes a restructuring of the tax code to ensure the plan acts as an overall tax cut.