Sentences with phrase «when emission taxes»

To address GHG emissions, a policy that promotes renewable energy production is quite distantly connected to the goal of reducing GHG emissions — this is a key reason why most economists (myself and I assume you included) see it as a distant second best policy, only good when emission taxes are not available for political or other reasons.

Not exact matches

The province, though, needs to recognize that if an emission - constrained world is going to limit the royalty revenue it collects from extracting fossil fuels, then it will be better off with a tax regime that adds money to provincial coffers when fuel is burned.

Opinion: Wynne is wrong when she claims the Conservative carbon tax plan will cost families more than cap and trade and do less to cut emissions

Why trading trumps carbon taxes Cap and trade entered China's political agenda in 2009, when the government here promised a 40 to 45 percent cut in its emissions per unit of economic output by 2020 against 2005 levels.

«The consequences of not [acting] are even higher with these results than they were before, when we could think about 1.5 degrees as being in the realm of possibility — which I think, realistically, it's not,» he said, urging more investments in research, a tax on carbon and other established paths to emissions reductions.

They highlighted a Volkswagen Golf 1.6 and a Citroen C4 XS, the French car expels 13 grams less in CO2 emissions, but when the new tax laws are introduced, the Citroen will cost almost AU$ 200 less to register.

I can not understand how exchange rates will be influenced when trading goods created under a CO2 emission tax.

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.

In the case of coal that is exported, the tax could be refunded when the coal left the country, so long as it was going to a nation that had an effective greenhouse emissions reduction scheme in place.

When asked about specific proposals to reduce climate change, most Democrats (90 %) and smaller majorities of Republicans (65 %) say that restrictions on power plant emissions would make a difference in reducing climate change, as would tax incentives encouraging businesses to reduce their carbon emissions (85 % and 65 %, respectively).

And as for «solutions to the climate change challenge», I would be grateful if he would kindly explain what the government proposed solution of a carbon tax will actually do for the climate, when China and India's increasing emissions will swamp anything Australia can achieve unilaterally.

Hart, R. (2008): «The timing of taxes on CO 2 emissions when technological change is endogenous,» Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55, 194 - 212.

When the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.&raWhen the policy solution emphasized a tax on carbon emissions or some other form of government regulation, which is generally opposed by Republican ideology, only 22 percent of Republicans said they believed the temperatures would rise at least as much as indicated by the scientific statement they read.But when the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.&rawhen the proposed policy solution emphasized the free market, such as with innovative green technology, 55 percent of Republicans agreed with the scientific statement.For Democrats, the same experiment recorded no difference in their belief, regardless of the proposed solution to climate change.As study authors Troy Campbell and Aaron Kay wrote in the introduction to their paper about this study, this shows «not necessarily an aversion to the problem, per se, but an aversion to the solutions associated with the problem.»

Costs also suddenly could get higher when suppliers dependent on electricity from coal - burning generators are hit with a government decision to tax carbon emissions.

That's what two men named David thought, too, when they first met in 2008 to talk about a climate policy with very little support: a national tax on industrial carbon dioxide emissions.

When we tax pollution, for instance, polluters with the cheapest ways to reduce emissions rush to adopt them, thereby avoiding the tax... Every dollar raised by taxing harmful activities is one dollar less that we must raise by taxing useful ones.

But let's don't overlook the key point that the emissions to atmosphere come from burning hydrocarbons (and we should be happy if only CO2 gets out when we burn them), so we need to discourage burning the fuels and the obvious way to do that is raise taxes on hydrocarbon fuel (at the retail level please — be honest, don't try to bury it at the wholesale level so consumers think the oil producers are gouging them).

For years economists have been showing that when uncertainty exists over the costs of reducing emissions of a pollutant like C02 it is better to use a tax than a quota.

A bill should set the U.S. on an emissions path that takes into account global climate - change risk and establishes an independent body to adjust the tax, when appropriate.

Weaver said that British Columbians feel more like they have been gobsmacked by the «war» over Trans Mountain that Ottawa has declared on their province, particularly when it's leading the country on addressing climate change with a carbon - tax rate of $ 35 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions that will rise to $ 50 per tonne by 2021.

When shoppers go to the grocery store, for example, they will find that fruits and vegetables from farther away have higher prices than local produce, reflecting in part the cost of emission licenses or taxes paid to ship that produce.

When businesses decide how much to spend on insulation, they will take into account the costs of heating and air - conditioning that include the price of emissions licenses or taxes for electricity generation.

When combined, these policies would yield a smaller, less powerful government; a tax code more conducive to investment and growth; and the emissions reductions the law says we must achieve... [R] eform must devote every dime of carbon - tax revenue to reducing other tax rates or abolishing other taxes altogether.

It clearly shows that during the period in which the Carbon Tax was in force, from July 2012 to July 2014, total emissions from fuels (the grey line on the graph) fell steeply and then rose steeply when the Abbott Coalition Government repealed the Carbon Tax.

When petrol prices soared to around $ 2 per litre in 2008, I expected a deluge of articles in favour of this turn of events, as the rise in oil prices was a good simulation of the precise type of policy response required to reduce emissions — that is, a large (and almost overnight) tax on fossil fuel use.

Weaver said that British Columbians feel more like they have been gobsmacked by the «war» over Trans Mountain that Ottawa has declared on their province, particularly when it's leading the country on addressing climate change with a carbon - tax rate of $ 35 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions that will rise to $ 50 per tonne by 2021.