Sentences with phrase «on the carbon tax impacts»

The board provides recommendations to the Governor, JCCPO, and the legislature regarding the implementation and impact of the act with a focus on the carbon tax impacts and avoiding inequitable effects on citizens and energy intensive trade exposed businesses.

Not exact matches

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

The initiative follows on he heels of another report by Oxford academics, which last year found that levying a tax on animal products — pricing them to reflect more accurately their harmful impact — could reduce meat eating to the extent that 1 billion tonnes of carbon a year would be saved... and 500,000 lives.

And so this all implies that given the pressing climate change issue and Paris targets set at 2050, smaller population and reduced consumption will have very limited impact, so we are mainly going to be reliant on renewable energy and carbon taxes and so on in the shorter term over the next 20 — 30 years or so.

And so this all implies that given the pressing climate change issue and Paris targets set at 2050, smaller population and reduced consumption will have very limited impact, so we are mainly going to be reliant on renewable energy and carbon taxes and so on in the shorter term over the next 20 — 30 years or so.

What is the likely impact of the carbon tax on the amount of emissions produced by these companies?

Tax approximate CO2 emissions from final combustion of biofuels and biomass based strictly on product type without attempting to account for carbon sequestered during growth cycles or emitted during harvesting, distillation or other chemical processing or land - use impacts.

And with so much focus on the potential impact of the carbon tax on the household budget, it is almost easy to forget that it is supposed to help to reduce Australia's impact on the environment.

In order to estimate the impact on the economy of the Clean Power Plan's regulatory scheme, based on an estimated SCC of $ 37 per ton, we have modeled the impact of an equivalent tax of $ 37 per ton carbon emissions [14] instituted in 2015 and increasing according to the EPA's annual estimates of the social cost of carbon.

«If Washington state passes Jay Inslee's carbon tax, there will be no impact on climate.

Sections 243.1 - 243.4 of Article 243 of the Code, specifically: rate of the tax due on emissions of certain pollutants into the atmospheric air, caused by stationary sources of pollution; rates of the tax due on stationary sources» emissions into the atmospheric air of pollutants (compounds), which are not listed in Section 243.1 of this Article and are falling within a certain substance hazard category (except for carbon dioxide), shall be applicable subject to determined approximately safe impact levels of such substances» (compounds») impact on the atmospheric air of urban settlements; and rates of tax due on emissions of carbon dioxide

Based on a literature review of seven studies analyzing the GHG impacts of the carbon tax, they determined that «the effect of the tax was to reduce fuel consumption and GHG emissions 5 — 15 % in British Columbia.»

Thus, according to EPA's own models, imposing a carbon tax in the US will have next to zero impact on the global climate.

I would take it a step further and seek ways to tax vehicle commuters from Maryland and Virginia for their carbon impacts on our city.

The authors argue that the carbon tax there has had little impact on fossil fuel consumption, suggesting that carbon taxes can not achieve their advertised end.

In summary, then, the best available models indicate that 1) global warming is a problem that is expected to have only a limited impact on the world economy and 2) it is economically rational only to reduce slightly this marginal impact through global carbon taxes.

For example, this poll is a bit old (from 2009), but it shows that ``... 58 % support a tax on carbon emissions to create incentives to reduce emissions and increase efficiency, and that provides tax refunds to individuals and households to offset the overall impact of the carbon tax....»

I - 732 offset the impact of the carbon tax on low - income households in the simplest way of the three approaches.

Heritage Foundation analysts David Kreutzer and Kevin Dayaratna yesterday released a study on the economic impact of carbon tax legislation (the Climate Security Act of 2013) sponsored by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D - Calif.)

If they don't enact a stiff tax on carbon in 2021; and if they don't start using the full legal authority of the Clean Air Act to regulate all sources of carbon emissions — implementing what is in effect a carbon fuel rationing scheme — then they can be rightly accused of being totally dishonest and hypocritical in claiming to be concerned about the impacts of climate change.

The gap of 0.2 ppts should represent the bulk of the carbon tax impact on consumer prices.

Heritage Foundation research has found that any sort of carbon tax, cap and trade, or other combination of carbon regulations such as the regulations on new power plants and existing ones (the Clean Power Plan) will only kill jobs and cut income, all without having any meaningful impact on global temperatures, now or in the future.

Reducing the sales tax, in combination with the WFTR, would more than offset the otherwise regressive pocketbook impact of the carbon tax on the lowest - income quintile.

While the Ministry of Finance is expected to support the 10 yuan per tonne scheme, others — including policy makers in the Ministry of Commerce — still worry about the impact a carbon tax will have on Chinese economic growth.

If Obama really wants to make a lasting impact on global warming, he can work across the aisle or across the Pacific in Beijing, to work toward implementing a meaningful, economy - wide carbon tax as quickly as possible.

RFF experts Arthur G. Fraas and Nathan Richardson examined the questions associated with implementing a carbon tax versus regulating emissions under the Clean Air Act, looking at issues including scope, cost - effectiveness, ability to generate revenue, and the impact on international climate negotiations for either policy approach — finding that «there's no easy answer to whether regulation or a carbon price is the better instrument.»

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

If, on the other hand, the tax provides «carbon dividends» to offset the impact of higher energy prices on poor households, it will create a new class of welfare dependents.

Andrew Bolt (no link) has repeated the lie that I drastically overestimated the impact of a carbon tax on global warming.

The new report could impact laws and regulations on matters ranging from carbon taxes in Europe to funding for renewable energy in the United States to transportation planning in China.

You can download an app that let's you calculate the cost impact of a carbon tax on your electricity bill.

A lot, if taxes on carbon pollution rise briskly enough to have the needed climate impacts.

Impacts of carbon taxes on poor families can be lessened by: 1) progressive tax - shifting as just described; 2) pro-rata distribution of the carbon tax revenues to every U.S. resident (also described above); and / or 3) to the extent necessary, funding programs designed to help poorer households use less energy driving and at home.

Shifting the tax burden to pollution and pollution - generating activities will create powerful incentives to use less energy and emit less CO2 into the atmosphere while simultaneously promoting tax equity and minimizing the impact of the carbon tax on those with lower incomes.

These equity concerns include: the regressive impact of potential energy price increases on low - income households; the potential for carbon pricing policies to allow some fossil fuel - fired power plants or refineries to continue to operate and emit air and water pollutants in neighborhoods already burdened by pollution; and the economic hardship to workers and communities dependent on fossil fuel industries for livelihoods or for their tax base as we transition away from these resources.

A robust carbon cap or tax should put the economy on a trajectory toward the science - based deep cuts in emissions required to limit some of the worst impacts of climate change.

Originally projected to take two years, the project targets mechanisms of the U.S. tax code in terms of its impact of its most critical provisions on carbon emissions and other greenhouse gases — a massive and complex campaign in environmental and economic modeling.

With a carbon tax, you set it and hope it has the desired impact on demand.

In «Make a carbon tax part of reform effort» (Concord Monitor, 9/19/11), Holtz - Eakin argues for comprehensive tax reform to include a carbon tax so that more of the «true cost of burning a fossil fuel... in the form of air pollution, a negative impact on human health, harm to the environment or climate change [is a] component in economic decisions [such as] include whether to invest in a coal - fired power plant or a wind farm.»

Our internal estimates suggest that the per barrel impact of a $ 40 / tCO2 carbon tax, for example, would impose an additional $ 1 - $ 2 / bbl increase on operational costs (assuming it was not passed on to consumers).