When companies make personal decisions to take
on carbon reduction measures in their industry, they are making the decision to go beyond the mandatory.
Even voters — even, it turns out, Republican voters — prefer a system that spends carbon
revenue on carbon reduction to one that returns it as dividends or tax cuts.
All the major Democratic candidates have made major energy policy proposals with substantive
ideas on carbon reduction and renewables.
Inslee's proposal this year calls for half of the revenue to be
spent on carbon reduction programs, like electric vehicle charging stations and energy efficiency initiatives, while 35 percent would be spent on climate mitigation measures meant to steel the state against fire and drought.
This would allow utilities to reclaim up to 100 % of the carbon tax paid by their customers if they spend the revenue
on a carbon reduction plan approved by the Utilities and Transportation Commission (for private utilities) or the Department of Commerce (for public utilities).
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Sustainable Aviation's roadmap published in December 2014 sets out how the sector believes it can expand whilst remaining within the UK's international
commitments on carbon reduction.
I stand to be corrected as I wouldnt follow things as closely as you guys would, but the net result is surely that the US have a clear need to generate energy at the lowest possible price in order to remain compettitive which is likely to
impact on your carbon reduction plans and also you must rein in the various projects that will increase state spending.
The ideas are still very much at the drawing board stage - and the report acknowledges that the high cost, high energy use, and the relatively low volumes of CO2 likely to be used, means that CCU is unlikely to be a big global
player on the carbon reduction front any time soon.
The European Parliament has consistently called for full transparency of information and public
deliberations on the carbon reduction scheme to allow all actors involved to judge its effectiveness.»
Tony Blair's science adviser has repeatedly called global warming a greater threat than terrorism, but that hasn't been enough for Britain's Conservatives; the Tory leader (the equivalent of, say, Tom DeLay) rose last summer to excoriate Blair for moving too
slowly on carbon reductions.
The chart (above right) shows the UK also wins out
on carbon reductions in the past decade, down around a quarter against a 10 % fall for the US and 8 % for Germany.
Thousands descended on Copenhagen to pressure world leaders to sign a new global
agreement on carbon reductions that would finally set in place a road map to a new economy eventually free of global warming pollution.
While I am still comfortable with my argument that «human inertia» is the prime explanation for a long response time for doing anything about greenhouse gas emissions, I am very wary of efforts by California and the U.K. to stick their necks out
on carbon reductions.
The primary goal of the COP21 is a binding agreement
on carbon reduction, with many nations due to submit their individual commitments next March.
Next year the world will try again for a global agreement
on carbon reduction, this time in Paris, December 2015.
An online carbon and energy registry will support China's drive to meet its own energy targets, facilitate bilateral cooperation between China and the US on climate change and support China's participation in international agreements
on carbon reduction.