Sentences with phrase «report on carbon pricing»

He was speaking at the launch in Berlin of a report on carbon pricing.

Not exact matches

With the exception of implicit prices on carbon on some emissions in Sweden, Japan, and Germany (see this recent OECD report for details), no carbon pricing policy in place today comes close to that type of stringency.

Shell's Lorraine Mitchelmore is reported as saying Canada «will need a carbon price» (President Of Royal Dutch Shell Canadian Division Urges Carbon Pricing — Report on Business, Sept. 11).

As noted in The Price of Climate Change, my colleagues and I believe these trends will not only encourage significant growth in clean technologies, energy efficiency and renewable infrastructure, but also greater transparency and reporting on sustainability and the carbon footprints of corporations around the globe.

Together with our preceding report, How To Adopt a Winning Carbon Price, which focused on British Columbia's carbon tax, we've now offered a look «under the hood» of the two major approaches to carbon pricing, and the important lessons offered by each.

The Alberta government received the final report from the independent panel led by University of Alberta economics professor Andrew Leach and announced its plans to phase out coal burning electricity plants, phase in a price on carbon, introduce a limit on overall emissions from the oil sands and introduce an energy efficiency strategy.

A 2015 report by Canada's EcoFiscal Commission sheds light on the issue of energy intensive trade exposed business sectors, and the need to consider competiveness implications in shaping and implementing carbon pricing mechanisms.

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.

Eliminating this financial risk premium makes nuclear power levelized electricity cost competitive with that of coal, and it becomes lower than that of coal when a modest price on carbon dioxide emissions is imposed,» the report says.

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.

But the report's author, Thomas Kerr, warned that this was a transitory pulse when sustained growth was needed, particularly given signs that no global price on carbon dioxide emissions was likely any time soon.

And the report, in a big shift from 20th - century strategies, puts little emphasis on lofty but unrealistic approaches relying on global governance or carbon pricing as the means to transform the world's energy menu.

To achieve these goals, the report recommended that the federal government implement a nationwide price on carbon and eliminate subsidies to Canada's fossil fuel industry — particularly, its tar sands industry.

A report published by the Environmental Law Students Association (ELSA), called for a «carbon price escalator» with S$ 5 annual increments in the tax rate, arguing that Singapore's initial price of S$ 5 is too far off from the benchmark of US$ 50 — US$ 100 per tonne of emissions recommended by World Bank's High - Level Comission on Carbon Prices report.

On 2013/10/23, during the disastrous NSW fires, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhereOn 2013/10/23, during the disastrous NSW fires, Christiana Figueres, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhereon Climate Change, said that the NSW bushfires were proof that the world «is already paying the price of carbon», and also criticised the government's direct action policy (reported in news.com.au and elsewhere).

The meeting included briefings on the health content of the 2018 National Climate Assessment and the Lancet Countdown reports, presentations on a range of solutions including pricing carbon, accelerating the transition to clean energy, and greening the health sector.

Right now, our global competitors are growing their clean energy sectors in order to dominate a market that some expect to expand by $ 2 trillion over the next decade.16 As we describe in our report, Creating a Clean Energy Century, 17 China is committed to investing over $ 700 billion in clean energy over the coming decade, 18 in addition to building 245 new nuclear plants19 and putting a price on carbon.

RCP4.5 is based on the MiniCAM Level 2 stabilization scenario reported in Clarke et al. (2007) with additional detail on the non-CO2 and pollution control assumptions documented by Smith and Wigley (2006), and incorporating updated land use modeling and terrestrial carbon emissions pricing assumptions as reported in Wise et al. (2009a, b).

In a new report, experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists examine different future energy scenarios and find that it is possible not only to scale back energy's reliance on water, but also to reduce carbon emissions and provide reliable power at a reasonable price.

I was too busy to post when it came out, but the Climate Institute has recently issued an important report on the implicit carbon price associated with such measures as renewable energy quotas.

... A new report by the environmental data company CDP has found that at least 29 companies, some with close ties to Republicans, including ExxonMobil, Walmart and American Electric Power, are incorporating a price on carbon into their long - term financial plans...

The report says more than half of the world's largest companies now back steps to cut heat - trapping emissions and a third support putting a price on carbon.

New Zealand carbon allowance prices rose 10 cents to their highest since Mar. 1 on Thursday, the deadline day for emitters to report their 2017 GHG output.

A World Bank report on international efforts to price carbon is expected to be one of the highlights of the meeting, with a senior official telling RTCC it would reveal a «substantial number» of countries and businesses now account for CO2 use.

Another key focus of the report is on the importance of aligning carbon pricing with the broader policy landscape.

Requires auctions to have a minimum reserve price, which in: (1) 2012 will be $ 28 per allowance; (2) 2013 and 2014 will be the minimum strategic reserve auction price for the previous year increased by 5 % plus the rate of inflation; and (3) 2015 and thereafter will be 60 % above a rolling 36 - month average of the daily closing price for that year's emission allowance vintage as reported on registered carbon trading facilities.

In 2014, the Committee on Climate Change will also report its advice ahead of a Government review later in 2014 on whether the Fourth Carbon Budget (2023 - 2027) should be relaxed in light of a weak EU Emissions Trading System carbon price (a concern covered in the Environmental Audit Committee's 2011 report).

-- For each strategic reserve auction held in 2015 and each year thereafter, the minimum strategic reserve auction price shall be 60 percent above a rolling 36 - month average of the daily closing price for that year's emission allowance vintage as reported on registered carbon trading facilities, calculated using constant dollars.

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.

But a recent report by the environmental research group CDP revealed that at least 29 major companies, including five major oil producers, are basing their internal planning on the assumption that such policies — specifically, a government - mandated carbon price — will be a reality as soon as 2020.

«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.

In addition the report says countries must adopt policies that put a price on carbon emissions and provide incentives to spur the development of energy - efficient technologies.

The final report must also explain the rationale for NYS ratepayers to definitely increase our cost of electricity with a price on carbon is appropriate relative to the speculative effects of any SCC value.

3 April: ABC: Climate change report a wake - up call: Combet The World Today By Sabra Lane and Eleanor Hall Mr Combet says the report underpins the reason why the Government has put a price on carbon.

Interestingly, beyond this, despite considerable rhetoric about moving beyond debates about carbon - pricing, the report recommends that in order to avoid adding to the Federal debt, it would be necessary to impose new taxes, including increased royalties for oil and gas extraction, a tax on imported oil, a tax on electricity sales, and a «very small carbon price» (presumably from a modest carbon tax or unambitious cap - and - trade system).

Furthermore, the IEA report makes it clear that abundant cheap natural gas could push renewables out of the market unless there is a price on carbon or aggressive economic support for non-fossil renewable energy.

The report argues that only firm action, including putting a price on carbon - dioxide emissions, will avoid more catastrophic events.

70 companies across 20 sectors from nearly 30 countries have aligned with the Business Leadership Criteria on Carbon Pricing, a set of ambitious standards to help companies set, advocate and report on a price on carbon, developed by the UNGC together with UNEP, the UNFCCC secretariat and Caring for Climate partners — CDP, Principles for Responsible Investment, The Climate Group and UN Foundation.

The report «identif [ies] the range of carbon prices that, together with other supportive policies, would deliver on the Paris climate targets agreed by nearly 200 countries in December 2015,» according to the council's press release, which was issued under the title, Leading Economists: A Strong Carbon Price Needed to Drive Large - Scale Climate Action.

This analytical report argues that the structure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has reduced the effectiveness of the resources spent on carbon reduction and attempts to measure the cost of the ineffectiveness analysing the projects registered under the CDM by measuring their cost of abatement against the price paid for doing the abatement.

This report by CEBDS and CDP, launched during COP22, offers the Brazilian business sector relevant information on carbon pricing and the main challenges involved in its design and implementation.

A Price on Carbon: The most effective way to spur this kind of change, the report said, would be to impose a price on greenhouse gas emissions, such as a carbonPrice on Carbon: The most effective way to spur this kind of change, the report said, would be to impose a price on greenhouse gas emissions, such as a carbonprice on greenhouse gas emissions, such as a carbon tax.

As reported in Climate Spectator last week, analysts from Citigroup have started looking at how individual company share prices might perform if governments take strong action on carbon emissions.

Tara Garnett, the report's author, warned that campaigns encouraging people to change their habits voluntarily were doomed to fail and urged the government to use caps on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon pricing to ensure changes were made.

However, his landmark report was, in part, misunderstood, because while everyone focused on the market failure of not putting a price on carbon it also identifed five other market failures that fuel the climate crisis: a failure of R&D investment; a failure of capital infrastructure investment; a failure to build networks where benefits are shared; a failure to account for co-benefits; and a failure of information distribution

He says a bipartisan group of senators is still indeed at work on bill that will stimulate clean energy growth and price carbon emissions — and that such a compromise bill is on the way, Reuters reports.According to that report,

Some other forecasts from the report: Electricity prices increase, regardless of whether a price on carbon is established or not: +30 % by 2030 and +45 % by 2050.

According to that report, 150 companies worldwide impose a price on carbon in their internal operations and investment decisions and 212 companies are directly engaging with policymakers in support of carbon pricing legislation.

Moreover, «they are ahead of their governments in planning for climate change risks, costs, and opportunities,» according to a 2014 report on the global corporate use of carbon pricing.