Their proposal is the latest to link carbon pricing with investments in clean energy.
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Carbon pricing has also lost much of its popularity as the principle and the politics have collided.
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Those assumptions would be wrong, as there is still plenty of disagreement on carbon pricing versus cap and trade.
Nuclear energy's best hope lies in carbon pricing, which forces fossil-fuel plants to pay for the environmental cost of the carbon they generate.
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For another, the commercial case for high-speed rail should be strengthened once aviation starts to pay its true environmental costs through carbon pricing.
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All the same, governments in other places planning carbon pricing, such as South Korea and some Chinese provinces, will watch what unfolds in Australia with interest.
There are three sorts of policies in place now to help cut carbon emissions carbon pricing, regulations to encourage efficient use of energy and subsidies for renewable energy.
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The coal industry may be fighting new federal emissions standards, air-pollution regulations and even the idea of carbon pricing, but those things are all a boon for carbon-free nuclear power.
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That's not going to happen unless governments both use carbon pricing and other policies to encourage investment in those technologies and constrain the damage that economic development does to biodiversity.
This will likely interest power companies in Australia, given that the government has recently passed a major carbon pricing law, which will assist in making geothermal power more price competitive with coal and gas.
Some of the proposed the legislation around carbon pricing proceeds from the idea that companies do not pay the full cost of consuming valuable natural resources that also pollute the environment, and instead pass substantial costs to taxpayers.
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The nearly complete focus of the subsequent Congressional energy and climate debate on the primacy of carbon pricing may have ultimately prevented meaningful debate on how to optimize and extend the critical, comprehensive clean energy investments begun under to stimulus and enact a long-term investment strategy to strengthen clean energy competitiveness.
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The government insists that a European carbon-pricing scheme will allow the private sector to build reactors without explicit state subsidies.
The to-do list is well-known, from investing in the infrastructure for electric vehicles to pricing carbon.
In that regard, you're aware that our Parliament has passed a new bill, pricing carbon -- a carbon tax, if you like.
And part of the answer to that question will depend upon pricing carbon, whether through a carbon tax or a cap and trade program.
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That idea is especially attractive when other forms of rationing a carbon tax, water pricing are struggling.
In the first quarter, Reliance attributed improved gross margins to strong pricing of carbon steel products, which accounted for 46.0% of the company's sales in 2007.
Road pricing or carbon taxes could replace some of that lost revenue, but new taxes are always hard to impose, because those who lose out oppose them and those who benefit keep quiet.
In other words, free-market pricing leads to fewer outputs of carbon.
Potentially through a carbon tax, it could create greater certainty in fuel pricing to make natural gas and renewables a better option than coal for power generation.
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Mr Kim, an avid advocate against global warming, said the bank's and the world's top priorities needed to be energy pricing, ending fuel subsidies and making low-carbon cities.
The report does point to the benefits of nuclear power, including competitive pricing, strong base-load power provision, and low-carbon emissions.
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By using the mobile infrastructure to deliver renewable, local electricity and emulating its pricing models and usage patterns they hope to quickly bring low-carbon power to the more than half a billion cellphone subscribers around the world who live off the grid.
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