Sentences with phrase «co2 emission trading scheme»

A hypothetical CO2 emission trading scheme with an open and a closed alternative is applied to a Java - based simulated transport sector.

Not exact matches

As a result, the NRDC, the EDF, the Clean Air Task Force and other groups support both a cap - and - trade scheme to limit CO2 emissions as well as subsidies for the first CCS coal - fired power plants to be built.

During the emissions trading scheme's trial period, which began in 2005 and ends later this year, confusion in the market caused prices to gyrate from almost $ 40 per ton of CO2 to about a dollar today.

The European Commission, meanwhile, says that despite the dash for coal in Germany, the carbon trading scheme remains successful overall, with a fall in CO2 emissions in 2009 of 11 per cent across the EU compared with 2008.

To our non-European readers, it's perhaps worth pointing out that the European Union already runs a compulsory cap and trade scheme for CO2 emissions.

4 Aug: Crikey: Ellen Sandell: Abbott's European holiday might make him hot and bothered Abbott seems to still be confused about the science of climate change, moving between «climate change is absolute crap» and aligning himself with the climate deniers, and at other times accepting that climate change is a problem, but just not one worth acting efficiently on... All of this will be news to most Europeans, who have long accepted the science of climate change and have been measuring their CO2 emissions in tonnes through the trading scheme, and are benefiting from climate change solutions... Studies predict an increase of up to 6.1 million jobs in 2050, and the EU - wide emissions trading scheme is expected to generate between $ 143 billion and $ 296 billion over the next six years... Maybe on the plane on the way home to Australia, Abbott could use the time to catch up on some reading.

Launched in April 2010, it is the world's first urban cap - and - trade programme, requiring CO2 reductions from large commercial, government and industrial buildings through on - site energy efficiency measures or participation in the emissions trading scheme.

As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.

It looks like the German emissions are lower than actual tons of CO2 also because of emission trading schemes.

EUAs are the carbon allowances that serve as the unit of compliance under the European emissions - trading scheme (EU - ETS), with each EUA entitling the energy - intensive industries covered by the scheme — mainly power generators, steel companies, cement companies, and oil refiners — to emit one tonne of CO2.

As a result, the European Union has seen its CO2 output increase rather than decline since the emissions trading scheme came into effect.

Attempts the gloss over the inadequacies of the carbon sequestration efficiency focus on the cost of sequestering CO2, proposing a tax on energy useage to cover that cost, and then proposing an emissions trading scheme to make the release of CO2 and the sequestering of the same commercially fluid.

So if you get in the business of limiting CO2 emissions, of taxing CO2 emissions, of creating a value in CO2 emissions where people trade them in this emissions trading scheme, you go to the coal plants first because of the fact that that's the greatest source — single source — of CO2 that there is.»

According to IEA country report the Finnish subsidies for peat in 2007 - 2010 undermined the goal to reduce CO2 emissions and counteracted The European Union emissions trading scheme.

Similarly, I am aware of some people who argue that carbon trading schemes are, or at least could be, a fraud that will enrich certain people or corporations but do little to actually reduce CO2 emissions.

In its report the IPCC emphasises the futility of subsidies for renewable energy parallel to an emissions trading system: «The addition of a CO2 reduction policy to a second policy does not necessarily lead to greater CO2 reductions,» it says in a literal translation of the IPCC's Technical Summary: «In an emissions trading scheme with a sufficiently stringent cap other measures such as subsidising renewable energy have no further influence on total CO2 emissions.»