Sentences with phrase «rising carbon price»

There's widespread agreement that a high and rapidly rising carbon price is needed to deter fossil fuel use and drive emissions reductions.

The report also called for fixed - price contracts and a steadily rising carbon price to help meet the carbon budgets in the 2020s and 2030s.

«But the essential underlying requirement is a substantial rising carbon price.

The map includes standards for clean buildings, vehicles and industry, incentives to help in the transition, and a rising carbon price.

How can this course be unfolding despite knowledge of climate consequences and evidence that a rising carbon price would be economically efficient and reduce demand for fossil fuels?

Rising carbon prices could also increase costs.

«The changing economics of renewables, as well as air pollution policy and rising carbon prices, has put EU coal power in a death spiral.

The EU has struggled to remedy numerous design and implementation flaws including a too - loose cap that has failed to induce a significant, persistent and rising carbon price, as well as international offsets that hold down carbon prices and whose environmental benefits remain maddeningly difficult to monitor and verify.

Gas is in the money compared to coal, due to a combination of tougher EU - level emissions standards for coal, rising carbon prices and fuel price levels leading to favourable economic terms for electricity production from gas.

He must explain that a rising carbon price is needed to phase out our fossil fuel addiction.»

The smart response would be to secure the low - and - rising carbon price and then start pushing other emission reduction policies, namely sector - specific regulations, industrial policies focused on capacity building, and large - scale investments in RD&D.

A rising carbon price drives down coal use by a jaw - dropping 75 per cent in a single decade while oil use is barely affected.

How can this course be unfolding despite knowledge of climate consequences and evidence that a rising carbon price would be economically efficient and reduce demand for fossil fuels?

With a rising carbon price, renewable energy can perhaps handle all of our needs.

A rising carbon price is essential to «decarbonize» the economy, i.e., to move the nation toward the era beyond fossil fuels.

A rising carbon price is the one practical way to obtain compliance with codes designed to increase energy efficiency.

However, we find that falling renewable energy costs, air pollution regulations and rising carbon prices will continue to undermine the economics of coal power in the EU, potentially making generation assets unusable by 2030.

Schandl et al (2016) suggest that some rich nations might be able to bump this up to a maximum of 4.7 % per year in the future if they roll out a high and fast - rising carbon price, and somehow manage to double their material efficiency.

BP said it was now expecting «particularly strong growth in solar» in the coming years owing to rising carbon prices and continuing regulatory support helping the technology becoming increasingly competitive moving forward.

During the run - up to the Dec. 2009 Copenhagen COP - 15 session, Krugman attacked climatologist and cap - and - trade opponent James Hansen for allegedly failing to grasp that a robust permit - based emissions - control system would lead to the rising carbon price Hansen advocated.