Sentences with phrase «on the carbon content»

In such a system, imports from countries that do not price carbon emissions would be subject to a tariff equivalent to the price imposed on the carbon content of such goods made in Canada, counting the carbon emitted to produce goods and to transport them here.

The plan also includes a border tax adjustment: U.S. companies exporting goods to countries without a similar carbon price would receive a rebate of tax paid, and imports from companies outside the U.S. would face fees based on the carbon content of their products.

These fossil fuels are subject to a «carbon price support rate» based on carbon content which will create in essence a carbon price floor.

The number of permits each company needs would be based on the carbon content of its fuels.

He also cites problems with a straight tax on carbon content of fuels.

In Dr. Hansen's approach, a straightforward rising tax is imposed on the carbon content of fuels, instead of Mr. Barnes's notion of a shrinking supply of purchased, and traded, permits.

Tax oil and coal based on their carbon content.

HERE is a poll by the IGM of their Economic Experts Panel on a carbon tax; the question posed was: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles».

For natural gas, the local distribution company providing gas would pay the fee, which would be based on the carbon content of each cubic foot of natural gas sold to customers.

And rather than set $ / kWh tax based on the volume of electricity consumed by customers like in Boulder, the District's carbon fee would change based on the carbon content the the electricity consumed in DC.

Pepco / Exelon will need to pay a carbon fee based on the carbon content of their Standard Offer Service (SOS) electricity load.

Tax - A carbon tax is a levy on the carbon content of fossil fuels.

On Sunday, the best climate policy in the world got even better: British Columbia's carbon tax — a tax on the carbon content of all fossil fuels burned in the province — increased from $ 25 to $ 30 per metric ton of carbon dioxide, making it more expensive to pollute.

If necessary to protect America's competitiveness, reformers could also impose a tax on the carbon content of imports from countries that do not tax their own emissions.

In essence, the carbon tariff, if enacted, would assess a levy on goods being imported into the Unites States from countries that do not enact controls on carbon emissions based on the carbon content of the good.

A tax system can be administered upstream, at primary production and imports of fossils based on their carbon content (and refund upon export, deposit - like).

In an April 1, 2012 column in The New York Times, Prof. Richard H. Thaler of the U-Chicago Booth School of Business aptly summed up the near - unanimity among economists that carbon taxing is the optimal way to reduce CO2 emissions: «Consider a recent poll of a panel of economists conducted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where I teach... [Forty - one] economists in [a poll conducted by the] University of Chicago... were asked whether they agreed with this statement: «A tax on the carbon content of fuels would be a less expensive way to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions than would a collection of policies such as «corporate average fuel economy» requirements for automobiles.»

A carbon tax would be simple — gasoline, coal and other fuels would be taxed based on their carbon content — and nearly impossible to evade.

Unless there is an effective tax on the carbon content of the manufacture etc of imported goods, then the tax on domestic producers gives money to consumers to buy cheaper imported goods.

Not exact matches

Moreover, the impressive breadth of Ruether's argument makes her susceptible to criticism from a variety of quarters: biblical scholars may disagree with her interpretation of Paul; environmental scientists, with her figures on atmospheric carbon dioxide content; and agricultural and nutritional experts, with her recipe for relying on consumption of seasonal, locally produced foods.

Research on organic matter concentrates on measuring the soil organic carbon content parameter.

The review of relevant research conducted by Stolze et al. (2000) concludes that under European conditions organic agriculture has beneficial effects on the characteristics of soil organic matter because the soil organic carbon content is higher on organically farmed soils than on conventional ones.

The technique, which measures materials» content of carbon - 14, quickly made an impact on archaeology and geology.

Matyas Ripszam has also examined the effects of higher temperature and different concentration of organic carbon content on the distribution of pollutants in modelled real - life marine ecosystems, so called mesocosms.

His calculations, based on 2008 figures for the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, show that even assuming a lower estimate of forest carbon content, total and equivalent CO2 would level out at 476 parts per million, even if we stopped all fossil fuel use immediately.

To determine its origin, scientists performed a range of tests on the tiny pebble, examining its mineralogy, bulk chemistry, carbon isotope, and noble gas content.

Previous studies have suggested that temperature and, more specifically, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels influence body size more via an indirect impact on food availability and nutritional content.

At the same time, Senator Barack Obama, from coal - rich Illinois, abruptly shifted his support for subsidizing coal - derived fuel production to concentrate on another bill he had been sponsoring that would cut greenhouse gas emissions and reduce carbon content in transport fuel.

Existing satellite maps of the area have estimated trees» carbon content based largely on their height, but have not accounted for large regional variations in their shape and density.

Many researchers are content to follow NASA's lead as it cautiously moves from «following the water» in search of likely habitable or once - habitable environments on Mars to «following the carbon» — that is, looking for chemical traces of ancient life.

The main benefit of the study, based on new analyses of the carbon content of the country's coal, is that «it provides a baseline for future emission policies,» says Dabo Guan, a co-author of the paper and a climate change economist at Tsinghua University in Beijing and the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, U.K.

«We therefore had to use a different method, so we measured the composition of carbon isotopes — the ratio of protein and mineral content — in the fossilized sloth bones,» explains Bocherens, and he continues, «Our measurements show that Megatherium lived on an exclusively vegetarian diet.»

The jelly carbon content is lower on average than that of phytoplankton or marine snow.

Within the studied species, scyphozoans had on average the highest carbon content (26.97 percent), followed by thaliaceans (17.20 percent), and ctenophores (1.40 percent).

Possible mechanisms include (iv) fertilization of phytoplankton growth in the Southern Ocean by increased deposition of iron - containing dust from the atmosphere after being carried by winds from colder, drier continental areas, and a subsequent redistribution of limiting nutrients; (v) an increase in the whole ocean nutrient content (e.g., through input of material exposed on shelves or nitrogen fixation); and (vi) an increase in the ratio between carbon and other nutrients assimilated in organic material, resulting in a higher carbon export per unit of limiting nutrient exported.

A new study to be published in Astrophysical Journal letters on Oct. 15, lead by John Silverman at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, studied carbon monoxide (CO) gas content in seven starburst galaxies far away from when the Universe was a young four billion years old.

Content: By calling on students to shrink their schools» carbon footprints, the Natural Resources Defense Council's «Green Squad» teaches about environmental and health issues.

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The ocean, with around 38,000 gigatons (Gt) of carbon (1 gigaton = 1 billion tons), contains 16 times as much carbon as the terrestrial biosphere, that is all plant and the underlying soils on our planet, and around 60 times as much as the pre-industrial atmosphere, i.e., at a time before people began to drastically alter the atmospheric CO2 content by the increased burning of coal, oil and gas.

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.

Because the congeniality of the cultural meaning of information shapes how readily they engage with the content of it, we predicted that the hierarchical individualists in the geoengineering condition would respond much more open - mindedly to the information from the climate change study on carbon dissipation.

1) On dry savannas in Africa the surface temperature of clear climate during daytime can reach about 50 C, but during nighttime can cool down until about zero C. However, CO2 content in atmosphere during all the time is the same, which proves that the carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas in atmosphere has no distinguishable influence on climate temperaturOn dry savannas in Africa the surface temperature of clear climate during daytime can reach about 50 C, but during nighttime can cool down until about zero C. However, CO2 content in atmosphere during all the time is the same, which proves that the carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas in atmosphere has no distinguishable influence on climate temperaturon climate temperature.

The tax on coal would be almost double that on natural gas simply because coal has a much higher carbon content.

For each 1 % increase in organic content achieved on the 5 billion hectares of degraded farmland worldwide about 500 billion tonnes — some 64 ppm --- of carbon dioxide will be removed from the atmosphere.

Likewise, I have suggested that your future projection, which ignores constraints on population growth and total carbon content in fossil fuels.

Its aim is to provide elements for decisions on a policy mix that will optimize carbon emission reduction (less carbon content per unit of output) and socioeconomic benefits with the needed urgency.

Victor argues that policymakers should instead focus on a suite of «vital signs» that are more tightly linked to carbon emissions, including atmospheric carbon - dioxide concentrations, ocean heat content, and high - latitude temperature changes.

I think a carbon content tax / tariff leveled on all exports into the US would be a good negotiation tactic.

Pollutants have altered on a global scale the carbon dioxide content of the air and the lead concentrations in ocean waters and human populations.