carbon price

If there were a real carbon price, farmers would think of their fields in terms of the carbon embodied in crops and soil.

The European Union's Emissions-Trading Scheme, which started up in 2005, is the only large-scale attempt so far to set a carbon price.

The best indication of that is the carbon price that would be required to make investment in renewables worthwhile without subsidy.

What is more, a moderate carbon price is not likely to be effective, since people clearly do not care enough about cost.

Moreover, the cost of energy could increase quite substantially even in the absence of a carbon price.

but, since the carbon price it would set is likely to be around $12, rising to $20 by 2020, not a very large one.

These would be worth up to $5. 2 billion at the current carbon price in the European emissions' market.

Energy-intensive companies maintain that a carbon price high enough to make a difference will push costs up and companies out.

Europe has tightened its system up, and the carbon price has risen to a level which could start to make a difference.

The carbon price has delivered some of the innovation that it was supposed to generate.

Far better to have a carbon price high enough to pinch, and then let companies and consumers decide where to cut emissions.

And yet it's strikingly difficult to impose a carbon price in practice.

Polish ministers have been galvanised by recent reports that the carbon price will be much higher than European Commission estimates.

One European utility executive told the Guardian: "New nuclear will not happen without sorting out the carbon price. "

A market-derived carbon price might actually be very volatile.

A reasonable carbon price would mean that gas plants would be switched on more often to replace coal.

And this, in turn, means a border carbon price would need to be established, reflecting the carbon content of imports.

'If elected as prime minister, I will reprosecute the case for a carbon price at home and abroad, ' Ms. Gillard added.

At times the carbon price has made it worth power companies' while to switch from dirty fuels to cleaner gas.

But it relies too heavily on subsidies for renewable energy, and too little on its carbon price.

A firm carbon price will accelerate creativity by making alternatives that much more economical.

The best of them is to raise the carbon price.

The EU needed to do something to drive up the carbon price in order to drive invention, she said.

That could limit growth in U. S. coal demand, but in the absence of a carbon price it shouldn't fall either.

Carbon targets, carbon-intensity targets like China's, and carbon-price targets can all play a part.

Still, while Europe has a carbon price and the rest of the world does not, there is a cost.

the carbon price actually fell in response to the committee's announcement.

Its cap-and-trade system has set a carbon price and cut emissions modestly in the sectors it covers.

And for any level of environmental tax you can get the same carbon price and emissions reduction by using a permit quota instead.

But in late 2007 the New South Wales state carbon price collapsed, and Easy Being Green's operations were suspended.

A carbon price sends business a price signal to invest in clean stuff not dirty stuff.

To create long-term certainty on the cost of emitting CO2 from fossil fuels, the government will establish a carbon price floor.

After all, Europe set a carbon price without imposing tariffs onAmerican goods, and Americalooks like following its lead anyway.

The carbon price is also expected to increase, adding to coal plants' costs.

A global carbon price remains a distant hope, and the planet is getting warmer.

Chinese CERs are too cheap and the carbon price is too low and too volatile.

Economists reckon a carbon price of around $40 is needed.

That helped raise the carbon price.

This is why a carbon price, whether set through taxes or emissions permits, is needed.

Only South Korea's hidden carbon price of 70 cents was lower.

America does not have a carbon price at all yet.

According to New Energy Finance, onshore wind energy needs a carbon price of $38, offshore of $136 and solar cells of $196.

Why hasn't the carbon price fallen further?

A bill defeated last year in the Senate would have yielded a carbon price as low as $30 in 2020, according to an official analysis.

Point Carbon's weighted-average world carbon price last year stood at 11. 40 euros ($16. 40), down from 18. 87 euros ($27. 15) in 2008.

America does not yet have a national carbon price;