In many ways, Mr Sarkozy's new tax is more of a fuel tax than a real carbon tax.
Mr Russell said the Dumfries scheme showed what could be achieved in terms of delivering "real carbon savings".
If there were a real carbon price, farmers would think of their fields in terms of the carbon embodied in crops and soil.
They argue that the market hasn't worked as it essentially has become a means of avoiding real carbon cuts by paying someone else to do them.
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When it comes to choosing between a carbon tax and fewer carbon dioxide emissions, alarmists show their true colors by turning up their noses at real-world carbon dioxide reductions and instead pushing wholeheartedly for ineffective central planning and carbon taxes.
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But it's Friday, and this here story has real-live carbon nanotubes, so you know it's a winner.
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The pressure should be on to create real efficiencies in carbon-based fuels to go alongside the requirement to convert out of carbon.
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It looks good responsible government protecting poor, innocent consumers from rapacious CEOs but I hope no one confuses setting communications standards for setting real standards, for carbon emissions and environmental policy.
So the real question is not whether carbon dioxide causes warming, but how, and how much.
For air capture to work it needs to find people with a real economic need for the carbon dioxide it produces.
As noted above, the ability to measure, in real time, sources of carbon goes a long way in helping us stop the emissions.
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"They put roasted onions on their hot dogs there, " Mr. Loeb, who also owns a carbon solutions business and manages real estate in Florida, said in a recent conversation.
Whether the carbon dioxide is captured by real trees, as some would like, or by artificial devices, environmental problems caused by the process would be local ones at the site of the sucking.
If you become a firm that optimizes its energy consumption across its real estate portfolio, you inherently reduce your carbon footprint.
This report centers on how researchers in Arizona are now able to map carbon emissions at street level in real time in cities around the globe.
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If it is real then yes, I still argue that a carbon tax is the sole and complete solution.
Emissions inventories are thus tied to real sources rather than to the LCA abstraction of carbon footprint, affording greater clarity to the question of which entities can be reasonably held accountable for what emissions, he argues.
Many MEPs held to the view that the collapsing carbon price was an accurate reflection of the real economy.
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Although the process of making carbon fiber is hardly particularly daunting, the real challenge is in delivering consistently high quality.
And I am a firm believer that climate change is real, that it is impacted by human behavior and carbon emissions.
That leaves only one other real option then: de-link economic growth from carbon emissions by fueling China and the world with clean, affordable, and massively scalable energy technologies.
Meanwhile, by failing to impose the carbon tax that would present consumers with the real cost of energy, America rejects the best way to kick its own addiction to oil and make greater use of alternatives.
They will make a real difference to tenants' bills while contributing to our low carbon commitments.
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Establish a system of carbon taxes on all fossil fuels, to begin to reflect the real environmental cost of their extraction and use.
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Carbon capture and storage on a large scale is still more theoretical than real.
The government has made real progress on climate change with its pledge that new homes will be "zero carbon" by 2016, the report said, but needs to offset carbon from now until then by drastically reducing emissions from existing homes.
For many of the developing countries, it is largely about the past - the West's responsibility for historical carbon emissions, the large share of the "atmospheric space" for carbon that Western nations have appropriated, and - usually unspoken, but real nevertheless - harms visited during the colonial era.
If these needed protein sources were to come primarily from livestock there is the very real potential for catastrophic pollution of water and land, not to mention the exponential increase in carbon emissions.
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