Sentences with phrase «price on carbon pollution»

What's more, cap and trade may be the world's best hope in putting a global price on carbon pollution.

The Climate Reality Project has a smart new video that explains the reasons we need a legally - mandated price on carbon pollution.

Share: FacebookTwitterLinkedinGoogle + emailVICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government announcing its next steps for pricing carbon pollution: «The federal government has laid out a straightforward process for delivering on its commitment to establish a national price on carbon pollution.

Hint: It's not the people who actively supported placing a high and rising price on carbon pollution.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

And, advocates say, power plant operators and electricity regulators simply don't have the economic incentive to increase the capacity to squelch carbon emissions unless the federal government places a high price on carbon pollution.

Economists and policy experts agree that putting a market price on carbon pollution is the most effective and economically viable path to combatting the climate crisis while generating important revenue.

It's a simple concept — put a much needed price on carbon pollution, but return all the revenue that's generated to taxpayers (for example with a monthly refund) to offset rising energy costs.

Even with the Guardian's welcome campaign, the world still needs a transparent price on carbon pollution to strangle demand for fossil fuels by replacing them with non-carbon alternatives.

Adopting I - 732 would reduce that uncertainty by setting a predictable price on carbon pollution and satisfying Washington's obligations under the federal Clean Power Plan.

This conference came on the heels of the big news that on Monday, October 3, 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will establish a floor price on carbon pollution of $ 10 a tonne in 2018, rising to $ 50 a tonne by 2022.

Accelerating research and development of renewable energy and energy efficiency, phasing out fossil - fuel subsidies and progressively putting an explicit price on carbon pollution were all key objectives agreed upon at the conference.

Putting an appropriate price on carbon pollution will force the coal industry and the coal - fired electric utility industry to internalize the cost of that pollution, which they are now allowed to foist off on everyone else.

As Trudeau himself admits, «there is a federal backstop that will ensure that the national price on carbon pollution is applied right across the country.»

And the best, most market - based way to make nukes more cost competitive is to put a serious and rising price on carbon pollution that starts to reflect the harm it does to public health and a livable climate.

«We've moved forward in a partnership way right across the country and we've demonstrated that we understand that the national interest involves getting our resources responsibly to new markets but it also involves, for example, putting a price on carbon pollution right across Canada.»

Thanks largely to B.C. Premier Christy Clark's brinkmanship and Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall's continued opposition, one part of the new agreement — putting a price on carbon pollution — dominated Friday's discussions.

Producing more clean energy, reducing energy waste and putting a price on carbon pollution will create sustainable jobs, diversify Alberta's economy and make the province more competitive and resilient in the future.

Fortunately, governments, cities and businesses everywhere are gearing up for a wholesale energy - systems transition that includes new investment in renewable energy and low - carbon technology, and putting a price on carbon pollution.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the federal government's 2018 budget: «Today's budget announced support for implementing key pieces of the government's climate change and clean growth plan, including putting a price on carbon pollution and extending tax support for clean energy.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

Although PCAST called for «very substantial mitigation,» its report declined to recommend the idea of putting a price on carbon pollution, a centerpiece of climate legislation that Congress rejected earlier in Obama's term - or the administration's pending decision on whether to permit the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

Oregon and Washington could both soon put a price on carbon pollution and create a West Coast block from British Columbia to California (in partnership with Quebec, Alberta, and nine Northeast states).

Today, a coalition of more than 25 organizations sent the below message to Washington state legislators calling for strong climate action, in the form of three key solutions: (1) supporting a path to 100 % carbon - free electricity, (2) putting a price on carbon pollution, and (3) advancing clean fuels for transportation.

Climate XChange and CABA came together in October 2016 largely over our common goal of enacting a price on carbon pollution in Massachusetts and beyond.

We're ready to pass a price on carbon pollution in Massachusetts and beyond, make our communities more resilient to climate change, and push for bigger and bolder action every day.

As in 2015, House and Senate leaders missed a golden opportunity to solve two problems at once, by putting a price on carbon pollution to both reduce emissions and help meet the state's funding needs.

By putting a price on carbon pollution and rebating nearly all proceeds back to District residents, the city could turn that goal into a reality and make D.C. the healthiest, greenest, and most livable city in the United States.

Senator Lindsay Graham has reached across the aisle on climate policy, pursuing legislation with a Democratic Senator to put a price on carbon pollution.

The story concludes on a note of climate hope: we can avoid the worst impacts of climate change by putting a price on carbon pollution, ending fossil fuel subsidies, and building resilient cities.

Ideal for a breakthrough moment in our campaign to put a price on carbon pollution.

Since their romance with fracking began, Ohio and Pennsylvania have largely spurned efficiency and renewables, and neither state has seriously considered putting a price on carbon pollution.

«What this report shows is that food prices are far more at risk from extremes in the weather and the climate, extremes that will increase with climate change, than they are with any ETS or a system which puts a price on carbon pollution,» Mr Connor said.

By reporting potential emissions, a company would acknowledge its contribution to the carbon budget and implicitly show that it is preparing to respond to policies and market signals for a low - carbon future, such as a price on carbon pollution.

Establish a price on carbon pollution for the companies responsible for a majority of the state's emissions.

«Putting a price on carbon pollution allows Australia to reduce its net emissions by at least 155 million tonnes (Mt) in 2020 and 390 Mt in 2030», claims the Minister's media release.

At the center should be a strong public policy that puts a price on carbon pollution.»

This new video is the first in a series of 4, advocating a price on carbon pollution as a means to tackle Climate Change.

Let's put a price on carbon pollution in DC.

To prevent the worst impacts of climate change, Washington voters and legislators in recent years have considered — but not approved — binding carbon pollution limits and a price on carbon pollution.

Learn about the impacts of a price on carbon pollution on households, businesses, and the climate.

«A very important thing that happened around the table is that some of our colleagues who up until this time had been at least publicly reluctant about the polluter pays, putting a price on carbon pollution, said that they'd be willing to discuss limited terms of doing that in this bill.

In the U.S., neither a carbon tax nor a cap - and - trade system to put a price on carbon pollution is under serious consideration; in contrast, China's carbon - trading program, which includes more than 2,000 pollution sources, is the second - largest trading system in the world (after the EU's).

Regulation would create economic winners and losers — just like a price on carbon pollution would today.