Sentences with phrase «emissions trading authority»

An RWE spokeswoman, Julia Scharlemann, said every CDM project in which RWE was involved was «thoroughly reviewed» by an independent auditor, and RWE adhered to German Emissions Trading Authority rules, which were more rigorous than CDM processes and the standards of other EU nations.

German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) at the Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Berlin, November 2005.

German Emissions Trading Authority (DeHSt).

Authored by NewClimate Institute, Lambert Schneider and Stephanie La Hoz Theuer, this publication forms part of a broader project, commissioned by the German Emissions Trading Authority (DEHSt) at the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt, UBA), with the primary objective to analyse the current situation and development of the international carbon markets.

Not exact matches

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

It also stirred confusion about the governor's legal authority and what will happen to the carbon trading program, which caps utility carbon dioxide emissions in 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, at a time when national climate legislation appears dead on Capitol Hill.

If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap - and - trade system for CO2 emissions — as many of our states and many other countries have already done — the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.

You can argue whether regulations or fees on various kinds of emissions and pollution (of which cap and trade is one variant) are more effective or economically efficient, but there needs to be someone with authority.

As Dallas Burtraw and Karen Palmer discussed, these are «a set of criteria for state plans that, if met, would qualify state authorities to allow» inter-state emissions trading.

And so the Climate Change Authority's recommendations are simultaneously more ambitious than the government will be prepared to accept, and not so ambitious by way of assuming that international emissions trading may mean no deep emissions cuts domestically.

The deal prohibits state or local pollution authorities like CARB from directly regulating carbon emissions from refineries, as it legislates the market mechanism of cap - and - trade as the sole means within the state for regulating carbon emissions from stationary sources like refineries out to 2030.

Meanwhile the Authority gives surprisingly little heed to the opportunities for Australia of a low - emissions economy, instead highlighting international emissions trading.

Bernie Fraser, Greg Hunt and Clive Palmer announce the Climate Change Authority's emissions trading review last year, after Palmer prevented the authority being aAuthority's emissions trading review last year, after Palmer prevented the authority being aauthority being abolished.

Because some Congressional advocates for C&T seem willing to trade away existing authority retained by EPA and the various states to restrict GHG emissions as pollutants under the Clean Air Act, the stakes are enormously high.

A new Climate Change Authority, headed by former reserve bank governor Bernie Fraser, will advise the government on the future emissions caps within the emissions trading scheme, national emissions trajectories, and many other aspects of the scheme including the role of price floor and ceiling after the initial three years.