Sentences with phrase «proposed carbon pricing»

The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) budget blueprint takes a similar approach to CAP, using carbon pricing to meet the Waxman - Markey targets with «half of the revenue from proposed carbon pricing earmarked for energy rebates and tax credits for low - and moderate - income populations» to «fully offset the higher cost of energy for the lowest 60 % of earners.»

Proposed carbon pricing legislation in the U.S. as well as low carbon fuel standards being adopted by California and other states could make many oil sands projects marginal or entirely uneconomic in future.

«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.

Proposed carbon pricing legislation in the U.S. as well as low carbon fuel standards being adopted by California and other states could make many oil sands projects marginal or entirely uneconomic in future.

That's why a group of prominent Republicans recently proposed a carbon price as one part of its «pro-growth» plan to address climate change.

Unlike Sanders, she isn't proposing a carbon price.

There has been renewed focus on the science of climate change since Blanchett appeared in an advert supporting the proposed carbon price, which is set to be introduced on 1 July next year.

DC's proposed carbon price would thus be an incentive to switch to cleaner fuels and reduce emissions from non-electricity sources like heating and transportation, while Boulder's carbon tax is non-bypassable charge on electricity that applies even if one switches to cleaner energy.

By contrast, the proposed carbon price in Washington, DC would apply to natural gas and oil consumed in the District as well as carbon - intensive electricity and emissions linked to transportation (exempting public transit).

In recent years, Harvard faculty members have made many vital contributions in this area, such as creating an artificial leaf that mimics photosynthesis, designing new chemical processes to reduce fossil fuel dependence, developing new battery technologies, envisioning the future of green buildings and cities, proposing carbon pricing models, and helping to shape progress on international climate agreements, US energy policy, and strategies to reduce emissions in China.

A recent analysis from the Australian Center for Independent Journalism found that 73 percent of articles and opinion pieces published in 2011 on a proposed carbon price were negative.

Ms. Redford needs to propose a carbon price that actually leads to overall emissions reductions so that the oil industry takes on its share of Canadian emissions reductions, just like everyone else does.

Not exact matches

So Alberta hasn't really proposed to increase its carbon price to $ 40, as reported last week.

The budget re-states Ottawa's goal — a national price on carbon across the country in 2018 — and says to expect a paper outlining «the technical details of the proposed federal carbon pricing backstop mechanism» in the coming months.

«Previous governments in Alberta and Ottawa offered to provide a subsidy of $ 779 milliontoward the $ 1.4 - billion price tag for TransAlta's proposed coal - fired carbon capture and storage project, but even with taxpayers shouldering more than half the cost, there wasn't a viable business case and the project was shelved.

How else could she argue, as she did in 2016, that Alberta would not support the federal government's pan-Canadian carbon price of $ 50 per tonne (in the year 2022) unless the federal government first approved an oil sands pipeline to tidewater, while also arguing that British Columbia's proposed oil spill safety measures contravene the federal government's clear jurisdiction over interprovincial pipelines?

GHG policies will induce significant expenditures, whether they follow the regulatory approach proposed by the Conservatives, the cap - and - trade approaches proposed by the Liberals and the NDP, or the broad carbon pricing approach -LSB-...]

Unlike O'Malley and Sanders, Clinton is not proposing a nationwide carbon price, the favored policy of many economists and environmental organizations.

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) proposed amendments to the program yesterday evening that envision a carbon market through 2050 with increasing allowance prices, sending a signal to businesses that have been waiting to see if they should keep participating in the state's quarterly auctions.

Harvard's Rob Stavins has criticized the Post-Partisan Power proposal co-authored by Brookings, A.E.I., and Breakthrough scholars claiming we are proposing a technology - only approach, that pricing carbon is the only way to reduce emissions, and that cap and trade is still politically viable.

We'd need to do it with a truly aggressive price on carbon (which, to keep from impoverishing everyone, you'd need to rebate back to individuals through some scheme like the increasingly crucial Sky Trust proposed by Peter Barnes).

-- Administration analyses of proposed climate change legislation suggest that C.C.S. technologies will not be widely deployed in the next two decades absent financial incentives that supplement projected carbon prices....

As usual it is the liberal idea of subsidizing AGW and then proposing a carbon tax to shuffle the money around in a pointless tax and spend that can't possibly work, compared to an actual conservative approach of paying a fair price for a needed service in the open market that contrasts the two options available.

Economic assessments of proposed policy to put a price on carbon emissions are in widespread agreement that the net economic impact will be minor.

Besides carbon taxes and cap - and - trade programs, few other approaches to carbon pricing have been proposed.

Under proposed revenue - neutral carbon tax legislation, about two - thirds of taxpayers are projected to receive more in refunds than they pay in higher energy prices.

While CBC relates Trudeau's assertion that «86 per cent of the Canadian economy is now covered, or soon to be covered, by a price on carbon,» the news network admits that how Canada will reach the rest of its proposed emissions targets «hasn't yet been nailed down,» and the new Liberal government has «resisted efforts by climate change groups and the media to lay out its targets and timelines for achieving them.»

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.

Cramton and Stoft have previously proposed using this scheme to reward poor countries who adopt a much higher carbon price.

How much should we be prepared to spend on CAGW given that the policies proposed to date (like renewable energy and carbon pricing) have virtually not chance of having any effect on the climate?

«We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,» Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap - and - trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon - emission limits.

This price level has been proposed based on the best current economic and climate science expertise, taking into account other national and sub-national carbon pricing proposals.

Platts» European power team assesses proposed carbon market regulatory intervention and its significant impact on European carbon and power prices.

We just need to recognize prices very real limits and use it to best drive technological change (I proposed earlier last year a carbon tax scheme that funds innovation, for instance).

In a column that appeared in the May 2011 issue of Australian Resources and Investments Magazine, Rinehart wrote about her opposition to Australia's carbon price legislation and a proposed tax on mining profits — both of which have now been passed into law.

You are proposing an unacknowledged right to the carbon cycle which you utilize carbon pricing that you are defining as privatization.

The letter also proposes two disclosure improvements that would address the core, material risks posed by climate reality: disclosures of future Capex by break - even price bands and the carbon content of reserves and resources.

Given that, how do propose global carbon pricing could be implemented?

Here we will look at a few of the climate bills proposed by the U.S. Congress which would have put a price on carbon emissions, and examine a number of economic analyses mainly by non-partisan economic groups which evaluated both the costs and benefits of each proposal.

The policy approach proposed above would make clear that we are willing to impose a globally credible carbon price so that firms in Alberta see gains from the elimination of any low - value uses of carbon in our economy and can effectively capitalize on low - carbon innovation.

Even so, what Sanders proposes would establish a price on carbon emissions above that which a heavily Democratic Senate was unable even to bring to a vote back in 2010.

As for a trebling of the carbon price, the Commission has a history of making bullish forecasts and we remain sceptical that the proposed cap, in concert with the MSR, is yet sufficiently ambitious to deliver these prices.

I propose that a price on carbon be applied through a fee - bate regime which would benefit top - performing firms at the expense of those who under - perform.

The analysis was part of a multigroup effort to apply sophisticated modeling tools to assess the impacts of various proposed carbon - pricing schemes.

And the proposed carbon tax could have raised the price of Powder River Basin coal from $ 12 a ton to $ 92, said Matt Preston, a research director at the consulting firm Wood Mackenzie Ltd..

Inslee on 14 December proposed using a price on carbon to support the state's primary and secondary education system and end a long - running fight with lawmakers over how best to comply with a 2012 court ruling that said the state had not adequately funded its schools.

This thread seems to be confusing two issues: a) whether carbon should be controlled ie whether the costs of carbon exceed the costs of proposed policies, and b) if there are to be controls, whether the policy instrument should be a price mechanism (putting a price on carbon) rather than non-price mechanisms (regulation).

I get that the proposed Australian carbon tax goes half to some bumptious government programs and only half to the shareholders of CO2E, and is set at an absurdly low arbitrary level with no real plan for right - pricing this common asset, so is bound to satisfy no one.

But as in previous surveys, far fewer people considered protecting the environment through such regulation more important than keeping energy prices low — an obstacle, obviously, for proposed legislation to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.

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.