As sustainable development finance remains a critical concern for African economies, the African Development Bank has invested in a suite of creative financing and support instruments, such as the Congo Basin Forest Fund, ClimDev-Africa Fund, Sustainable Energy Fund for Africa, African Water Facility, and Africa Carbon Support Program.
Legislators were lining up to support a carbon copy of the Arizona law and polling showed support from 65 percent of the state.
When some sort of carbon tax is introduced to reduce carbon emissions, support for climate change policies goes from the vast majority saying yes, to the vast majority saying no.
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Each month, players can choose from three differing carbon offset projects to support.
But as with everything around energy policy, notably including the 'race' to win government support for carbon capture and storage, it's proceeding at snail's pace.
If greenhouse-gas concentrations are to be stabilised, then the carbon price or the support mechanisms for clean energy, or both, will have to rise or be adopted worldwide, or both.
Yet, results from the Yale-George Mason report found that 76% of Americans support regulating carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas pollutant, and that two-thirds believe the U.S. should pursue policies to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Following that, 3C wants to see the creation of a global market for carbon emissions trading as well as government support for "clean" technology projects like carbon sequestration and wind farms.
There is a very good argument, one that I certainly fully support, that carbon should be taxed and other things, like labour, or investment, should have their taxes reduced by the same amount.
Mr Harvie called for a legally binding global treaty which made 2015 a global peak year for emissions and he said there was a need for support for low carbon development in poorer countries.
Under Rex Tillerson, the current boss, policy changed to support for a carbon tax, a proposal so much more radical than the cap-and-trade emissions bills on offer that critics suspected it of being an intentional distraction.
Over the past year, the AfDB has engaged extensively in international discussions, such as the World Water Forum, COPs of the UNFCCC , Climate Investment Funds Partnership Forum, Africa Carbon Forum, and providing support for the African Group of Negotiators in the UN processes.
That said, there are other studies that support a toxic role for carbon nanotubes.
Many donor countries support REDD because of the cheap carbon credits that they will receive.
Kyoto presented the first step toward creating a carbon market that Enron desperately wanted Congress to support.
So there is an appetite to wean us off of carbon producing energy sources with seemingly increasing public support.
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On July 13, Clean Technica published an interview with GOP elder statesman George Shultz in which he re-affirms his support for a revenue-neutral carbon tax.
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Labour's environment spokeswoman Sarah Boyack's amendment, which called on the government to use its powers to support the development of low-carbon technologies to underpin Scotland's recovery from economic recession, was unanimously agreed.
For its 2012 report, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said that U.S. companies purchased more voluntary carbon offsets than any other country, to support American climate change projects in the absence of a U.S. federal cap and trade scheme.
Astronomers call the most promising of these places "Goldilocks planets, " because they orbit in a temperate zone not too hot and not too cold to support liquid water essential for carbon-based life as we know it.
But Mr Hague said that ministers would support a tougher Europe-wide limit on carbon emissions.
During a joint press conference Wednesday with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, however, Obama reiterated his support for using market forces to rein in carbon emissions, and even argued that doing so is good for the economy as a whole.
Mr Rudd came within a whisker of snaring bipartisan support for a market-based scheme to cut carbon pollution.
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In particular, the enormous and growing infrastructure needed to support the Internet poses especially complicated challenges for measuring carbon emissions.
The Obama administration has said it wants to speed construction of nuclear-power facilities as part of a strategy to support sources of energy that emit little or no carbon dioxide or other gases linked to climate change.
The island's peat and blanket bogs support wildlife and act as a natural store of potentially harmful carbon.
He says business travelers can support the local communities they visit by offsetting flights through credible carbon offset programs.
And all this information will help increase renewable energy generation, provide support for plug-in electric vehicles, and reduce the carbon pollution that causes climate change.
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Both Mr McCain and Mr Obama support a form of cap-and-trade to limit carbon emissions using market mechanisms (this would probably put up prices, though it should reduce pollution).
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