While raising the tax is politically unpopular, theoretically, raising the gas tax would fix crumbling highways, lower oil imports, and reduce carbon emissions.
In past years, the European Union has urged Germany to impose speed limits where there are none, arguing that this would improve safety and reduce carbon emissions.
El Hierro biosphere reserves aims to increase energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions further with a Sustainable Mobility Plan (PDMS), since 50% of the energy consumed on the island is used for transportation.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, defying opposition from business lobbies and some fellow Republicans, agreed with Democrats who control the California legislature to cap the state's greenhouse-gas emissions and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020.
East Sussex County Council has set out to cut its electricity bill and also reduce carbon emissions.
Some of the district's lights were first turned off early in December in a bid to cut costs and help reduce carbon emissions.
An overall reduction in energy subsidies would encourage conservation and could reduce carbon emissions, even if renewable energy lost out in the deal.
No less than the future of our planet is at stake, and this is really our last best chance to address global climate change and reduce our carbon emissions.
For its part, the Obama administration is part of the Global Alliance Initiative, which is a public-private partnership that, among other things, seeks to improve indoor air quality and to reduce carbon emissions.
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Apart from cutting congestion and raising money, tolls reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants.
These benefits, in combination with growing electricity use worldwide, concerns about limited supplies of fossil fuels, and efforts to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions and prevent climate change, have prompted governments and investors to pour money into this emerging technology.
As our cars become more efficient, we spend less money refilling them, we preserve a crucial resource, and we reduce harmful carbon emissions.
Most economists figure a tax is a simpler and more-straightforward way to reduce carbon emissions than cap-and-trade.
He is currently Director of Engineering at Carbon Lighthouse, which helps companies reduce energy usage and carbon emissions.
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Raphael Rosen, a member of our 2012 30 under 30 list of rising stars in the energy sector, is president of Carbon Lighthouse, which helps companies reduce energy usage and carbon emissions.
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Given the choice between a policy of more taxes and more government programs that do nothing to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and a policy of fewer taxes and fewer government programs that nevertheless result in declining carbon dioxide emissions, I will take the latter.
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The battle lines are being drawn around the "cap and trade" debate, which would guarantee reductions in our carbon emissions and reduce the (already unavoidable) impact of global climate change.
And lastly, increasing the efficiency of electricity supply and demand could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by up to 10 percent.
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Third, the report says that increasing the use of natural gas and renewables could reduce carbon dioxide emissions by almost 25 percent with the same economic benefits.
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Large power plants would achieve significant fuel savings and thus greatly reduce their carbon dioxide emissions as a result of such an increase.
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Plaid said its policy towards climate change was "both realistic and ambitious" and it would aim to reduce carbon emissions annually by 3%.
He digs up a quote from when Romney was governor of Massachusetts, and signed on to a regional cap-and-trade plan to reduce carbon emissions.
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Part of the vision calls for flying jets in the same formation as a flock of birds, which would reduce energy use and carbon emissions.
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Equally important, as the online universe expands, telecommuting allows us to reduce carbon emissions and energy use without forcing people to live in dense communities that most Americans, particularly in their adult years, clearly do not prefer.
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The Senate is considering clean-energy and climate legislation that would put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and cut carbon emissions.
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The benefits of making homes energy-efficient would also reduce carbon dioxide emissions and cut health care costs, says the charity.
The treaty, named after Kyoto, Japan, the city where it was negotiated and signed in 1997, calls for industrial nations to reduce greenhouse gases by reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants believed to contribute to global warming.
But by requiring lower mercury and other toxic emissions, it would reduce carbon as well.
In 2007, both Newt Gingrich and John McCain wanted a cap-and-trade program in order to reduce carbon emissions.
New Mexico has joined the Chicago Climate Exchange, pledging to reduce its carbon emissions, and at the same time becoming a national leader in creating a state-of-the-art clean energy economy.
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