Malcolm Turnbull Quotes

The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

At some point, policymakers will get around to dealing with additional policies around climate in ways to incentivize certain behaviors.

My party will do nothing on climate change because environment, it's a shared jurisdiction, and provinces, they have programs for that, and so I'll let provinces decide what they're going to do to fight climate change.

The Liberals would love to have people believe that the choice is a carbon tax or nothing. I reject that.

Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.

You should be attacking the carbon emissions, period, and whether it's cap-and-trade or carbon tax or whatever, that's the realm in which we should be playing.

The carbon tax is the single biggest rolled gold example of Federal Labor not listening.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

Some solutions are relatively simple and would provide economic benefits: implementing measures to conserve energy, putting a price on carbon through taxes and cap-and-trade and shifting from fossil fuels to clean and renewable energy sources.

Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.

Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

For the U.S., I think we should have a carbon tax, for environmental reasons.

I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food.

Whether the process proves to be Kyoto or something else, let's acknowledge the urgency of global warming.

Many scientists and economists also say putting a price on carbon through carbon taxes and/or cap-and-trade is necessary.

I don't believe in a price on carbon, because the government is going to control it and they're going to fail.

A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.

Not only will a carbon fee reduce carbon emissions, it will force big polluters to pay for the damage their pollution does to public health and the environment, generating billions in new revenue for the American people.

In the absence of federal leadership, Coloradans should take our rightful role as leaders seriously and work with other states and countries to reduce carbon emissions.

Under the Paris agreement, every one of the 147 signatories issues what is called an 'intended nationally determined contribution' (INDC), which amounts to a promise that the nation will take certain actions to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by a certain date.

Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.

Climate change demands a collective response. We can't expect other countries to act if we don't.

I'm obviously in favor of a carbon tax. And I think climate change is one of the biggest threats to our planet.

Our position is that we believe that Canada has to have a comprehensive plan to significantly reduce global emissions.

As a California state legislator, I supported our cap-and-trade law to force polluters to pay for releasing harmful greenhouse gases to combat climate change.