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China Implements Carbon Tax
After smog reached untenable heights in Beijing and other Chinese cities last month, China is moving forward on new rules to clean up the environment. It is implementing a Carbon Tax and mandating that certain industries buy insurance to make sure funds are available to pay for damages and to incentivize them to clean up their [...]
U.S Voters Support Carbon Tax
The last-minute fiscal cliff deal offered short-term salvation for important clean energy tax incentives, but critical programs across-the-board still face “sequestered” cuts starting in March if US lawmakers can’t agree on where to trim the budget. The Department of Energy alone faces an 8.2% cut if sequestration takes effect. A new survey suggests that rather than just slashing [...]
Riding the Risks and Rewards of the Solarcoaster
It’s been a while since I reflected on my career journey on what many of us in the industry have affectionately begun calling “The Solarcoaster.” Rather than look at events in the industry as a whole over the 2011-2012 period, I wanted to take a more personal view; a view as a big fish in [...]
98% of Canadians Believe in Climate Change
A new opinion poll released this week suggests only two per cent of Canadians who responded believe climate change is not occurring. A further nine per cent believe climate change is occurring naturally. And 54 per cent feel both humans and Mother Nature are playing a role. The survey was conducted by Insightrix Research for [...]
Top 10 Reasons we need a Carbon Tax
Here I cut to the chase to spotlight the 10 reasons Shi-Ling Hsu concludes a carbon tax is THE most effective mechanism to combat climate change and motivate the private sector to help solve it while raising much-needed revenue for governments with the where with all to pass one. I take the liberty of paraphrasing [...]
In Focus: Australia’s Carbon Tax
Many countries require a strong and sudden push to enforce greener, more environmentally conscious policies. We’ve seen that in Germany. In light of Japan’s nuclear disaster, breakthroughs are being made and bills are being passed that ensures Germany will be being powered by safe and sustainable energy in the future. Germany’s scientists and politicians were [...]
Carbon Tax for China Likely Coming
China will likely begin taxing carbon emissions in the next three years, reports China Daily. A draft of how the system would work is under review by China’s Ministry of Finance. Companies – those that produce or use large quantities of coal, crude oil and natural gas - would pay a gradually increasing tax for each ton of CO2 discharged into the atmosphere. They [...]
Green Hops: New Renewable Energy Targets, More Carbon Tax Chatter, Singapore-Nanjing Eco-city Announced
China’s energy intensity was down 2.9% in the first quarter of this year,reports the National Bureau of Statistics. The decrease is based on a6.1% growth in GDP measured against a 3.04% increase in energyconsumption. So remember this–despite and increased movement towards“decoupling”, energy consumption still rises as long as GDP rises. Power consumption in the first [...]