This move would encourage cleaner technologies but allow the market to choose which it favours and how much to pay.
And the question is, how do we make sure that new companies with newer, cleaner technologies are able to catch up?
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It promoted the use of the European Emissions Trading System, where revenues from carbon trading are automatically reinvested into more efficient and cleaner technologies.
Europe's Emissions Trading System, launched in 2008, was intended to protect the environment by raising the cost of polluting and encouraging businesses to invest in cleaner technologies.
But make no mistake about it--they are all aware that the long-term energy future for Texas lies in cleaner technologies, and they are planning their business strategies accordingly.
While new coal plants seem to be on the horizon in Texas, power companies operating in the state are also aware of a shift toward cleaner technologies, including nuclear power, which has no environmentally harmful emissions.
The price of carbon needs to be a good deal higher than 5 euros - some believe between 25 and 30 euros - to provide an adequate incentive for companies to cut emissions and invest in cleaner technologies, experts say.
Only if nations such as India and China continue to grow will they have the capital and know-how to invest in cleaner technologies, many of which are going to be more expensive than fossil fuels for a long while to come.
It is mainly because the costs of rapid abatement are very high, and the damage from warming, great or small, will be long delayed which means there will be time to phase in cleaner technologies gradually, so that capital is not scrapped prematurely.
At the start of this year, China enacted new legislation, the Law on Renewable Energy, which promotes cleaner energy technologies.
The BP oil disaster is like a signal flare warning us that we must reduce our oil use via investments in more efficient, cleaner energy technologies.
Cleaner coal technologies such as coal gasification will reduce that need by as much as half but, emerging concepts like carbon capture and burial could increase consumption between 30-100 percent.
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Its aim would be to make cleaner, more efficient technologies available in developing nations like India and China.
Cleaner energy means new technologies, and new money to be made.
The Index seeks to deliver capital appreciation and is composed of companies that focus on greener and generally renewable sources of energy and technologies facilitating cleaner energy.
We're investing in new technologies to produce electricity in cleaner ways, including solar and wind energy, clean coal technologies.
Bush also touched on expanded international cooperation in cleaner and more efficient energy technologies.
Businesspeople concerned to position themselves well for a carbon-constrained future must do more than get themselves photographed with Al Gore: they need to invest in technologies that will produce cleaner energy.
I'm not saying we don't need green tech, whatever that really is, or that we don't need more "clean" energy, whatever that really is too (I have to note that all new energy technologies are almost always cleaner than old, regardless of the primary source).
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We will shift over to the new technologies where we can have cleaner cars sold nationwide.
Rather we need to invest in cleaner oil and gas exploration and production technologies in the short term, and the commercialization of alternative energy technologies for the longer term.
First and foremost, through strategic investments in both the Recovery Act and the budget, the President has made significant investments in the research and development for these new advanced technologies that we will bring cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks to American families.
At the same time, the combined entity would be better positioned to invest in new technologies so that it could become cleaner.
But the rebound is threatened, some experts say, by the mounting cost of new technologies demanded by government regulators to make cars safer, cleaner and more fuel-efficient.
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New technologies and alternate fuels promise to make driving light-duty vehicles a cleaner experience with every passing year.
Source: Brookings InstitutionDistributed power technologies that operate all or most of the time are more reliable and cleaner than those that operate only when the grid goes down precisely because they operate all of the time.
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Such a stimulus would even give us a cleaner environment, as gas is replacing dirtier coal and is most easily integrated with renewable technologies like wind and solar.
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