The government has committed to the International Monitory Fund (IMF) to explore the possibility of levying carbon tax to enhance revenue collection. Sources told to Business Recorder on Tuesday that the government is exploring the possibility of levying some kind of excise duty, or carbon tax, on fuel consumption, responsible for pollution problems in Pakistan.
This report on Canada forms part of a multi-country effort by the Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) of the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) to characterize and quantify government support for liquid biofuel production, distribution and consumption. An overview of ethanol and biodiesel, the main fuels evaluated in this report.
A method is presented that allows for a life cycle assessment (LCA) to provide environmental information on an energy infrastructure system while it evolves. Energy conversion facilities are represented in an agent-based model (ABM) as distinct instances of technologies with owners capable of making decisions based on economic and environmental information.
Participants at a scientific conference held in Copenhagen in March were shocked to hear new, much higher estimates for likely sea-level rise and rainforest loss that could lead to trees emitting more carbon than they store.
Lord Stern, the climate economist, yesterday urged governments to raise their spending on green energy in economic stimulus packages and to combat carbon dioxide emissions, saying the decision could save billions of dollars in coming years.
This report aims to investigate how the biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation agendas can be linked in ways compatible with current and forthcoming markets for ecosystem services. Is there a business case for high-biodiversity REDD projects and schemes?
"CARBON TAX STRIKES ME AS A MORE DIRECT, A more transparent and a more effective approach (of countering global warming)." This reads like just another line from the ongoing carbon tax versus cap-and-trade debate, except that it comes from Rex Tillerson, the CEO of the world's largest oil company Exxon-Mobil. For decades, Exxon
