Sentences with phrase «through carbon taxes»

They believe that the best way to reduce pollution, including greenhouse - gas emissions, is to require people to «internalize» the environmental costs — for example, through carbon taxes.

If the international community decides that it is indeed willing to pay for this service — through carbon taxes, mandatory cap - and - trade carbon markets, or some other mechanism — to whom would that money be owed and under what circumstances?

Instead of trying to keep energy bills down (so that everyone can afford airconditioning or heating, according to need; and so that the economy can grow, bringing work and prosperity), we've driven them up artificially through carbon taxes and renewables subsidies for all those useless bat - chomping, bird - slicing eco-crucifixes destroying our countryside.

Firstly, as Mann also points out, they require a price on carbon to work, whether through carbon taxes, cap - and - trade, or other arrangements.

We've met the upfront capital cost of # 55 billion through carbon taxes over 13 years.

A new report from Consumer Focus shows that investing money raised through carbon taxes in a major energy efficiency programme is one of the best ways to create jobs and boost the economy, while also tackling fuel poverty.1 The report2 — «Jobs, growth and warmer homes» — is published today (Friday 9 Nov).

Reducing carbon use through carbon taxes alone will be extremely expensive because you have to raise those taxes by multiple of the cost of the reductions you are trying to get people to make.

Half the savings in emissions needed to reach this target were originally to have been made through carbon taxes.

«We will fight against the NDP who want to raise taxes on Canadians through their carbon tax or whatever tax they may come up,» Mr. Menzies declared.

New Democrats have long argued that a portion of the money raised through the carbon tax should be used specifically to reduce carbon emissions through support for projects like transit expansion.

At 7 p.m. People of Albany United for Safe Energy sponsors a forum on putting a price on climate change through a carbon tax or fee to make polluters pay for the air pollution they emit, First Unitarian Universalist Church, 405 Washington Ave., Albany.

Even putting a levy on carbon emissions, either through a carbon tax or carbon - emission permits, will not be sufficient.

«Generally, we find that on the heels of something like this, that folks are looking to raise taxes,» either directly through a carbon tax or by rule changes that raise power prices, Neefus said.

«This will not happen through a carbon tax or anything that increases the price of energy,» Cohen said.

The better way forward, for people and for the climate, is a «revenue - positive» approach, whereby polluters pay for carbon reduction either through a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade system, and the revenue generated is directly invested in disadvantaged communities.

Edahiro says for Japan to achieve this, almost all new and existing equipment will have to be highly efficient, and Japan will have to reduce its economic activity by setting a price for carbon, either through a carbon tax or emissions trading.

The negotiations for other countries to sign an agreement to engage in climate - based economic hardship, as Australia has through its carbon tax, are all uphill from here.

Based on a real world «business as usual» emissions scenario, with natural gas displacing oil at its current pace and no carbon tax, I come up with a CO2 right about inline with RCP 6.0, «a mitigation scenario, meaning it includes explicit steps to combat greenhouse gas emissions (in this case, through a carbon tax) ``.

Economic efficiency requires that those who generate emissions pay the cost, and the simplest way of forcing them to do so is through a carbon tax.

But they also gave states flexibility to limit emissions through a carbon tax or by a carbon trading system.

And our biggest energy companies, utilities and auto companies became dependent on cheap hydrocarbons that spin off climate - changing greenhouse gases, and we clearly have not forced them, through a carbon tax, to price in the true risks and costs to society from these climate - changing fuels.

To address this threat to competitiveness, the Leach panel recommended that some of the revenues collected through the carbon tax — at least $ 2.5 billion, by some estimates — be returned to big emitters by way of a subsidy tied to how much they produce, whether it's barrels of oil or kilowatts of electricity or some other sector - specific output.

Not exact matches

Voicing support for a carbon tax through the Climate Leadership Council is good, but it's time to start actively lobbying for such policies, and supporting politicians who will enact them.

If you are facing a carbon tax, you can reduce your tax bill by reducing emissions either through changes in actions or changes in technology.

Ms. Mitchelmore said CCS technology won't be widely adopted unless there is a price on carbon — either through a tax, a cap - and - trade system or regulations on emissions.

These goals will be achieved through a progressive carbon tax system, which place levies on carbon emissions.

Many also spend carbon tax revenue, rather than recycling it through offsetting tax cuts elsewhere.

NEA estimates that over the term of the UK Parliament (the next 5 years) domestic energy consumers will contribute over # 14 billion to the Treasury (# 11.82 bn in England, # 1.33 bn in Scotland, # 690m in Wales and # 190m in Northern Ireland) through VAT and revenue generated from carbon taxes.

They passed a motion on a green stimulus for the economy earlier this afternoon that included an amendment saying the government should «introduce a windfall tax on operators of existing nuclear stations, recovering through taxation the profits they make solely as a result of the introduction of the carbon floor price from April 2013».

Key finding: innovation + policy = economic growth A third scenario includes a $ 30 per ton price on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, redistributed to taxpayers through proportional tax payments.

At the very least, he says, the Kyoto treaty should be modified to allow countries to fulfill their obligations through joining an international carbon tax process.

Even if you're focused on limiting CO2, there are taxes, and there is the possibility that through technology the problem will solve itself without cap - and - trade or a carbon tax.

Australia's CCS adherents press ahead on the belief that the government will eventually impose a cost on carbon emissions through a tax or emissions trading scheme.

A mandate would be, for example, a rigorous and well - administered carbon tax, secured through a democratic or representative process.

So why not place a carbon price on society (either through a tax or a cap) and let society solve it either through bioengineering, conservation, or renewables?

This scenario would change if there were a significant tax on carbon emissions, or if an equivalent economic penalty were imposed on fossil - fueled plants through a cap on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or a requirement that CO2 be sequestered.

Price carbon emissions through cap - and - trade legislation or by imposing a carbon tax?

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

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Hopefully, the Senate will disregard the idea of a Cap and Trade and either through the current tax / tariff / subsidizing systems or a scaled fossil carbon usage tax, directly fund renewable implementation or replacement.

Also, all of his proposals will cost money through hidden taxes (this has to be paid for somehow) rather unleashing the technology and CONSERVATION by 300m citizens thru a revenue neutral carbon tax.

He called the short - term investments a prelude to the larger task of placing a price on carbon to discourage its use as an energy source, either through a direct tax or a cap - and - trade system or both.

That's an important subject, of course, but I do not see in either post (# 21 or # 22) an answer to my question: Do you support a «price» for carbon that would need to come about through either a «cap - and - trade» system, a «cap - and - auction» system, or a carbon tax?

It is well understood that special interests prefer to see the matter of one of virtue rather than economics and to be paid for being virtuous; they go through great contortions to prevent «carbon taxes» from even being considered.

Price carbon emissions through cap - and - trade legislation or by imposing a carbon tax?

So bring on the carbon tax, lower other taxes, and we shall muddle through, and Jim Hansen's 20 years shall not be spent in vain.

To remedy this failure the U.S. government (or the U.N. through the IFCCC) should impose a progressive carbon tax to force the price of emissions into the energy market.

We are already paying a regressive carbon tax of a sort through the Iraq War, with billions being diverted from community needs and thousands of lives lost in the effort to control Iraq's oil resources.

Economists often talk as though putting a price on carbon emissions through tradable permits or a carbon tax will be enough to deliver the needed reductions in those emissions.

China will not establish a price for carbon, through a tax or emissions limits, which are at the center of the ICAP proposal, unless doing so is in their economic self - interest.