The need to encourage the growing
trend on carbon pricing.
Not exact matches
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.
We need to maintain that downward
trend by imposing a substantial
carbon tax
on motor fuels, which would keep the
price up and the demand down.
«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.
From the article:... «We need to put a
price on carbon to accelerate these market
trends,» said Gore.
The world is warming at an alarming rate, and scientists and economists agree that putting an effective
price on carbon emissions is the single most important thing we can do to reverse this
trend.
This Catallaxy thread has it all, if you can stomach it — bogus statistical claims from fools too ignorant to estimate a
trend line and too lazy to learn how, silly IPCC and BOM conspiracy theories, absurd economic alarmism about the allegedly catastrophic effects of the
carbon price, CO2 as plant food, and so
on.