Sentences with phrase «only on a carbon tax»

And relying only on a carbon tax, with no R&D subsidies in the mix, would be equivalent to a 1.9 percent annual drop in consumption.

Not exact matches

Based on what Environment Minister Peter Kent recently told CBC's Evan Solomon, the Tories no longer oppose only the broadest form of carbon tax (as proposed Stéphane Dion is his disastrous 2008 election run as Liberal leader), but also the cap - and - trade option, which use to be in the Conservative platform (it's on page 32 here).

This makes it clearer than ever that any system of carbon pricing, whether based on taxes, caps or some combination of the two, can only be one part of a comprehensive set of policies to achieve climate change goals.

He cited Australia's Parliament, under a conservative coalition elected last year, which last week repealed a two - year - old tax on carbon dioxide emissions — the country's only legislated policy for reducing global warming pollution.

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When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.

Offering this suggestion as a friendly amendment, my only real complaint with the Barnes commentary falls on his comparison of a carbon tax with his permit scheme.

Guardian: Oliver Tickell: Don't let the carbon market dieThe Copenhagen climate change conference achieved too little, but a modest global carbon tax would make amends Some people have good reason to be shocked that banks have pulled out of the carbon market, not least recent economics graduates whose dissertations on carbon finance now qualify them only for unemployment.

Climate activists are urging a carbon tax on shipping and aviation not only to spur reductions in climate pollution but as a revenue source to finance global climate mitigation.

A new report from the International Monetary Fund suggests that a carbon tax of $ 30 / ton of CO2 on offshore maritime and aviation emissions alone could generate $ 25 billion of revenue a year, while noting that national governments may have only weak claims to that revenue.

Carbon Washington believes the risk of job leakage needs to be mitigated in a carbon tax bill, but we encourage the Legislature to focus on special handling only for businesses that are truly emission intensive and trade exposed.

The needed market corrective is huge and can come about only via a significant tax on carbon pollution.

Not only would such a carbon tax be relatively easy to scale to a global system, but it would also take the health and environmental effects of fossil fuels into account, putting clean energy — from wind to nuclear — on an equal footing.

Since the carbon tax only applies to fossil fuels, this clause should only block rules on those sources.

And, the amount of money wasted on wind frams, pointless Kyoto accords, carbon taxes and what hve you has served only to divert money that should have been spent on frackning in the short term and on getting atomic energy underway in the long term underway, and planning for sensible adpataion.

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.

Second, as I discuss this week on National Journal's energy blog, there are only two defensible reasons for economic liberty / limited government advocates to consider a carbon tax proposal such as the MCP.

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.»

With Democrat majorities and «moderate» Republicans (including John McCain) on board, the only obstacle to draconian «carbon'taxes and / or cap - and - trade (another form of taxation) will be the reluctance of Congressmen from fossil - fuel producing states to go along, and a strong public challenge to climate Alarmism by Realist scientists.

He said that from an economic point of view, it would be more rational to spend lots of money on today's other big problems, and only make small and limited changes in policies relating to global warming, such as a slight increase in gasoline or carbon taxes.

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.

Also, would a tax based only on carbon not badly skew the price away from coal in favour of oil, at least in the short term?

The benefit of this would not only be to pre-empt any such externally imposed carbon tariff on China's exports (under international trade rules, a carbon tariff on goods from a country with a carbon tax would probably be illegal), but it would also allow the Chinese government to collect revenue of such a tax rather than to see it go to a foreign government.

To them, it seems perfectly obvious that taxing a «bad» (carbon emissions) and using the revenues to reduce taxes on a «good» (working or investing) can only make society richer, even in conventional terms and not considering the environment.

A carbon tax will only be imposed on the use or combustion of carbon and the resulting emission of carbon dioxide.

The way I see it, the government would only establish a «Department of Carbon Signatures», populate it with a herd of SES / GS -15 / 14 chiefs (and a horde of minions for them to chief over), monitor my «carbon signature», and tax me on it at a rate of $ 18 / ton if the Carbon Signature Threat was dire.

For example, a carbon tax designed to smoothly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions from their current level to zero by the year 2100 would result in only about 0.1 °C of global temperature «savings» — an amount, on its own, not worth pursuing.

Comparing the entire fossil fuel industry to the billions spent on AGW advocacy is nonsensical, not least since they actually spend more money on pro-AGW causes than anti-AGW (they don't actually care if you impose carbon taxes on their customers, that only hurts poor people).

Because the proposed carbon tax is on only one sector of the economy, the overall goal of carbon reductions could fail simply because driving up the price of electricity makes the conversion to electric based residential heating and transportation more difficult.

Hansen's Been Vocal Opponent of Cap and Trade Hansen has made such statements before: Back in May he said he hoped the Waxman - Markey bill failed because of concerns that the only people to really benefit from such a scheme are financiers acting as middlemen and that a «much more effective approach» was needed — such as a fee - and - dividend approach — which is essential a carbon tax on producers, with the money being given back to the public.

Only taxes on carbon pollution from fossil fuels can create the clear, rapid, across - the - board incentives needed to propel a massive shift to clean alternatives.

I can limit flood damage and improve health very simply: But I need lower cost energy (you don't want that), lower cost steel and transportation (you are working very hard to make both more expensive), more proper and safe rules and less excessive regulation (you want more regulation and more fees and more interferences from very propagandized zealots against work), lower costs for electricity, water and fuel (you seek more taxes and rules on all) no government corruption (The carbon taxes you want go ONLY to the corrupt third world dictators and NGO profit - seekers who are selling their ENRON - inspired carbon credits, none do anything for the people of each country forced into squalor and death.)