Sentences with phrase «on carbon market reform»

A new report on carbon market reform has kicked off debate on the issue in the European Parliament.

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The white paper on Electricity Market Reform has mapped out a new policy to encourage the billions of investment that we need in all three families of low carbon electricity generation — renewables, nuclear and clean coal and gas.

The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve: by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power companies to engage with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.

Yet the economic advantages of a carbon tax are so manifest that it is still possible, once the fiscal cliff negotiations are finished and talks turn to a truly transformative tax reform deal, that leaders in Congress will begin to reconsider it, especially it if is marketed on economic grounds.

Platts interviews David Hone, chief climate change advisor with Shell and chairman of the International Emissions Trading Association, on the outlook for EU carbon market regulation and long - term reform.

Angela Knight of Energy UK on Ofgem's wholesale power market reforms, the government's proposed capacity mechanism and the transition to a low - carbon power system.

The Trump administration, however, attempted to alter that trajectory with a number of actions in its first year, including rolling back EPA regulations on carbon, methane and other pollutants, as well as pushing wholesale market reforms to benefit coal and nuclear.

Consequently, the research report calls for action: (1) to reform electricity markets so that low cost renewables are dispatched first; (2) to extend robust moratoriums on new coal power plants; (3) to cap longer - term coal consumption and emissions in the power sector in the context of carbon markets.

Earlier today the chair of the EU Environment Committee, Mathias Groote, announced a second vote on reforms to the EU's carbon market will take place in July.

Initiatives such as the Carbon Plan, Green Investment Bank and the Electricity Market Reform demonstrate how the UK coalition government is well on the way up the regulatory escalator towards encouraging zero - carbon emissions within business.

The group recommended that the government should resolve the uncertainties over its plans for electricity market reform as soon as possible, as well as setting out a clear policy on the carbon price floor — which ensures companies and generators pay a minimum price for their emissions - and work with industry to «foster a constructive dialogue with the public on energy policy».

His most recent column, The Market and Mother Nature, on Jan. 9, 2013, placed a carbon tax in the politically viable context of fiscal and tax reform:

This is will be particularly important in areas where, for example, tenure reform will be required to achieve key opportunities from carbon markets on Indigenous lands.