Sentences with phrase «own carbon pricing scheme»

Finally, CME noted that carbon pricing schemes need to be designed in such a way so as not to merely transfer GHG emissions out of the province (or country).

«The campaign would be broad - based but also target particular regions where the vulnerability to the impact of the proposed carbon pricing scheme is high,» the document says.

A source said even though the details of the carbon price scheme were still unknown, the campaign was in a stage of «advanced development».

It will focus on «the adverse impact of the carbon pricing scheme on the competitiveness of Australia's export and import - competing industries».

The move to «ax the tax» — as Prime Minister Tony Abbott is fond of saying — makes Australia the first country in the world to abolish a functioning carbon pricing scheme.

Michael Le Page describes the international community implementing a global carbon pricing scheme and imposing carbon tariffs on goods produced...

Michael Le Page describes the international community implementing a global carbon pricing scheme and imposing carbon tariffs on goods produced in the US (8 April, p 22).

Because energy prices affect every single America, everyone has a stake in the issue of whether the government imposes additional restrictions on fossil - fuel use, including carbon pricing schemes such as those proposed by PRG.

While the price to implement carbon sequestering farming techniques are already in line with current carbon pricing schemes (at cost around $ 10 / ton of carbon sequestered), further development could bring these prices down even further.

The more complicated a carbon pricing scheme becomes, the easier it is to do hidden favours, and the harder it is to transparently assess what is going on.

Former NASA climate scientist James Hansen has come to the Paris climate talks to push his radical alternative to current carbon pricing schemes.

And worse still they continually argue for irrational policies — like government imposed carbon pricing schemes and very high cost renewable energy while blocking nuclear power development.

Participants in the carbon pricing scheme would have to pay 3.5 times more than they would if all countries participated and all GHG sources were included.

The government claims that the carbon pricing scheme has been ineffective, although CO2emissions fell by 0.8 % in the first calendar year of its operation − the largest fall in 24 years.

But a review of studies regarding carbon pricing schemes from around the world by economist Tom Tietenberg concludes that «they typically find that the cost savings from shifting to [taxes or cap - and - trade] are considerable, but less than would have been achieved if the final outcome had been fully cost effective.»

And the work of the few who do, is biased by their ideological beliefs — e.g., advocating irrational policies to justify mandating and subsidising renewable energy and imposing carbon pricing schemes.

The survey indicates pervasive uncertainty about the future of Australia's carbon pricing scheme, but also a strong expectation that carbon pricing will be a feature of Australia's economic policy framework in the medium to long term.

Even if these improvements are sped up by a concerted reinvestment in technology education, R&D, deployment assistance, etc. there's no way they're going to start bending the curve for 10 - 20 years.The advantage to carbon pricing schemes is that they can be brought into effect much quicker than the development / deployment cycle of advanced technology.

The decision had cross-party support in the Senate vote, passing by 39 votes to 32, with only the Labor and Green parties voting against repealing the carbon pricing scheme they introduced, and which took effect two years ago.

Both the provinces of coastal British Columbia and oil - sands - rich Alberta have implemented some version of a carbon tax or a hybrid carbon pricing scheme.

It's just a matter of which carbon pricing scheme we use to capture them — either the carbon tax, or a California - led regional cap and trade system that B.C. is still considering joining.

Here is an alternative to a global carbon pricing scheme.

In July, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard unveiled a national carbon tax on that country's 500 worst polluters, after her predecessor was turfed from office when his own carbon pricing scheme withered on the vine.

According to a new report published on World Bank Group on carbon pricing, by 2015, the number of implemented or planned carbon pricing schemes around the world has almost doubled since 2012.

It is why carbon pricing schemes are highly unlikely to achieve what is intended and highly likely there will be serious deleterious consequences.

That is helpful in explaining the challenges / futility of a sensible carbon pricing scheme.

That framing costs as a foregone - gain increased the amount people were prepared to reduce emissions is noteworthy because public messages about climate policy impacts typically frame the costs of reducing emissions as a loss [13]-- a pattern confirmed by our analysis of newspaper communications regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme.

On January 29, 2014, we searched Factiva — an online research tool for accessing content from different sources (viz. newspapers, journals, and magazines)-- for newspaper articles containing statements regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme — commonly referred to as the «carbon tax».

I focus on the probability that carbon pricing schemes will succeed rather than debating the various estimates of the projected costs and benefits; the latter are extensively debated in the literature.

Thus carbon pricing schemes end up as a mish mash of exemptions, deductions and other escape clauses.

He was the perfect front man when the mining industry wanted to spend big destroying Labor's mining tax and win massive concessions from the carbon price scheme.

This question gives me an opportunity to make a serious point about carbon pricing schemes ETS or tax).

Certainly the basic implementation of the cap and trade carbon pricing scheme.

Together with massive investment in renewables and efficiency, the authors recommend a nationwide carbon pricing scheme be deployed within the coming years, which they say can be implemented without damaging growth.

[7] T Edis, «How Labor can improve the carbon pricing scheme», Climate Spectator, 13 August 2012, viewed 21 February 2013, http://www.climatespectator.com.au/commentary/how-labor-can-improve-carbon-pricing-scheme

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If we go for an interim solution like a carbon pricing scheme we are assuming our emissions target will not increase: that's a big gamble.

Although the carbon pricing scheme has its warts, the negotiations between Labor, the Greens and the Independents have also produced some genuinely positive outcomes.

Now there's also a third difference and this is possibly the most important one: My plan mandates revenue neutrality for the $ 100 per tonne federal carbon tax, and it incentivizes provinces to make their carbon pricing schemes — whether it's a cap - and - trade system or a carbon tax — revenue neutral as well.

David Newman of the World Biogas Association argues the global march of carbon pricing schemes will have big implications for the waste industry and beyond

In order to provide an indication of the magnitude of this bias, the authors conducted a search of Australian newspaper articles for communications regarding the future costs of Australia's carbon pricing scheme.

Not exact matches

In 2008, Canada and the U.S. seemed to be moving to introduce cap - and - trade schemes that would have imposed a price for carbon emissions.

A year later, at the end of 2017, McKenna clarified that provinces have until the end of the year to introduce carbon - pricing schemes, whether they be carbon taxes or cap - and - trade regimes.

Major new study details how carbon prices across the bloc could double by 2021 if the EU moves to make emissions trading scheme compatible with the Paris Agreement

To achieve this, the federal government committed to implementing a national carbon pricing «backstop» that would apply in any province or territory that does not have a carbon pricing system in place by 2018 that is consistent with the federal scheme.

As well as a general message designed to reinforce negative perceptions of the scheme, the campaign will also home in on regions where the carbon price will supposedly have a greater impact.

Yesterday the Herald revealed that agreement had been reached to start the scheme for three years with a fixed price on carbon - a de facto carbon tax - before it becomes an emissions trading scheme in which the market would set the price.

STRUGGLING manufacturing firms are experiencing a carbon tax squeeze, the greenhouse scheme adding 14.5 per cent to energy bills, but many are unwilling to raise prices.

But take out Davey's hidden taxes (carbon price floor, emissions trading scheme, etc) and we'd be paying an average # 123 less.»

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.