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Putting a Price on Carbon

2018/11 0 Comments By Daniel All Posts, Climate Change, Green City Times green city, Sustainability News avoided emissions, Carbon cap and trade, carbon credits, carbon offsets, carbon tax, Emissions Trading System, energy efficiency, EU ETS, greenhouse gas emissions, nature-based offsets, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative

Carbon Markets | Carbon cap and trade systems are regulatory policies in which countries, provinces, states, and even cities, set a limit (a cap) on the amount of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) industries/ power plants can emit. Carbon pricing plans incorporating an emission trading system (ETS) are commonly referred to as carbon cap […]

Carbon tax – a levy on pollution whose time has come

2018/06 0 Comments By Daniel All Posts, Climate Change, Green City Times green city, Sustainability News carbon intensive, carbon tax, climate change, energy efficiency, fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, negative externality, renewable energy, revenue-neutral carbon tax, social cost of carbon

Defining effective carbon taxes | A carbon tax is a levy in countries and regions on: fossil fuel power plants, oil refineries, and/or industries, and/or companies; that use fossil fuels (tax applies directly), or on those that consume energy-intensive goods and services that depend on fossil fuel energy generation (the tax applies indirectly); and emit […]

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Putting a Price on Carbon

Carbon tax – a levy on pollution whose time has come