Sentences with phrase «on carbon pricing developments»

At this RFF seminar, experts provided the latest updates on carbon pricing developments in the three nations:

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By calling for re-energizing CCS development, PCAST is making two judgments: 1) that the coal industry is highly likely to remain competitive even as it complies with EPA restrictions on emissions of SOx, NOx, Hg, and other toxics; and 2) that a substantial price on carbon is highly likely to arrive in a time frame of relevance for a CCS development effort.

Thomas has also worked extensively in the analysis of carbon market mechanisms and carbon pricing instruments, with a focus on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Ambitious mitigation will require a range of actions, including investing in research, development, and technology transfer; phasing out subsidies on fossil energy; and pricing carbon.

We assert that a price on carbon, in conjunction with increased support for research, development, and demonstration of innovative clean energy technologies, can best coordinate innovation with deployment.

How one sees the answer boils down to an important difference in perspective on how to best deal with climate change: Do we (a) try to influence the course of future human development using carbon pricing as the main policy tool?

Equally important, the group urges that government catalyze the development of energy alternatives by sending «a strong market signal» through such mechanisms as mandates on utilities to produce more renewable energy or «a price or a cap» on carbon emissions1.

A price on carbon emissions will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Washington State and spur the development of new, renewable energy alternatives, and represents an important first step toward making meaningful progress toward carbon reduction in Washington State and protecting both birds and people in a warming world.»

Ultimately, the U.S. needs a long - term clean energy policy that create a long - term market for renewable energy, encourages and supports the integration of renewable energy, puts a price on carbon emissions, and increases funding for research and development.

The World Bank and the We Mean Business Coalition will form a group on carbon pricing to continue development of the principle after tomorrow's summit.

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.

Gerard Ostheimer, a scientist attached to Sustainable Energy For All of the United Nations said, higher price per ton of carbon could push development of biofuels on a large scale.

In addition the report says countries must adopt policies that put a price on carbon emissions and provide incentives to spur the development of energy - efficient technologies.

-- Supports a price on carbon AND methane — Supports high labor standards in the development of renewable energy — Supports changing the Clean Power Plan to incentivize renewable energy over fracked gas.

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

To speed up the development and dissemination of solar energy we need more R&D funding, market incentives such as feed - in tariffs, and a steadily increasing price on carbon emissions now.

Accelerating research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency, phasing out fossil - fuel subsidies and progressively putting an explicit price on carbon pollution were all key objectives agreed upon at the conference.

Voluntary demand for forest carbon offsets increased, too, and several developments — including the flurry of green supply chain commitments by major commodity producers and the fact that more than 400 major companies now have an internal price on carbon — indicate that the world of private sector actors potentially interested in forest carbon interventions is quickly expanding.

This analytical report argues that the structure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has reduced the effectiveness of the resources spent on carbon reduction and attempts to measure the cost of the ineffectiveness analysing the projects registered under the CDM by measuring their cost of abatement against the price paid for doing the abatement.

Moreover, I would suggest that those of us in «the electorate» who are well - informed about this issue are well aware that changes in public policy — including putting a price on carbon pollution, directly regulating GHG emissions, and providing effective support for the development and deployment of efficiency and renewable energy technologies on a scale at least comparable to the subsidies that fossil fuels have received for a century — are far more effective than the options that any individual can currently choose, and are in fact crucial to making more such options available to all of us.

Diogenes, you missed Hansen's # 1 part of his plan which is the CCL carbon fee / price, and # 2 part of his plan which is getting China and the USA in bed together on the carbon price to «lead the world» and fast paced nuclear development together.

My hope is that victories like this one will help build the momentum to generate the kind of people power necessary to move the needle on comprehensive climate policy — policy that prices carbon, removes subsidies for oil companies, and encourages clean energy development.

The study, based on overlaying maps of proposed oil palm development with maps showing carbon - density and wildlife distribution in Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), estimates that REDD is financially competitive, and potentially able to fund forest conservation, with oil palm at carbon prices of $ 10 - $ 33 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e).

«Fossil fuel subsidies work against Canada's commendable progress in putting a price on carbon — they give money and tax breaks to the sources of carbon pollution that we're trying to scale back,» Amin Asadollahi, North American Lead on Climate Change Mitigation at the International Institute for Sustainable Development, said.