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The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2018 was a proposed 2018 bill that intended to "create a Carbon Dividend Trust Fund for the American people in order to encourage market-driven innovation of clean energy technologies and market efficiencies which will reduce harmful pollution and leave a healthier, more stable, and more prosperous nation for future generations."
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The Economists’ Statement on Carbon Dividends is a joint statement signed by over 3,500 U.S. economists promoting a carbon dividends framework for U.S. climate policy. The statement was organized by the Climate Leadership Council and originally published on January 16, 2019 in The Wall Street Journal with 45 signatories, including Nobel Prize winning economists, former chairs of the Federal ...
A carbon fee and dividend or climate income is a system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address climate change. The system imposes a carbon tax on the sale of fossil fuels , and then distributes the revenue of this tax over the entire population (equally, on a per-person basis) as a monthly income or regular payment.
The dividend payments can also finance the addition of incentives designed to encourage consumers to increase energy efficiency, whereas cap-and-trade does not directly involve the consumer. The Healthy Climate Trust Fund is the agency in the U.S. government who are overseeing the cap-and-dividend policy.
A meltdown in world equity markets in recent days is more reflective of a wind-down of carry trades used by investors to juice their bets than a hard and fast shift in the U.S. economic outlook ...
Private Equity: Climate, Health, Education, Sustainable Growth and Security $400M [10] Credit Suisse: Switzerland 1856 Marisa Drew Private Equity: $1000M [11] Acumen: New York: 2001 Jacqueline Novogratz: Private Equity: health, energy, financial inclusion, education, agriculture and real estate $99M [12] United Nations Capital Development Fund ...
The Climate Leadership Council is a bipartisan non-profit organization that advocates for a carbon fee and dividends policy [1] [2] [3] that would tax carbon emissions and refund all the money to Americans in payments of approximately $2,000 a year for a family of four.