Sentences with phrase «emissions trading schemes with»

This is an argument in favour of emissions trading schemes with a price floor, or a carbon tax.

Blyth, W. ja Bosi, M. (2004), Linking Non-EU Domestic Emissions Trading Schemes With EU Emissions Trading Scheme, International Energy Agency.

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

«There is no need whatsoever for an economically dangerous and scientifically discredited emissions trading scheme with its taxes, bureaucracy and disruptions.

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.»

Even without the massive exemptions loaded in to the Rudd government's CPRS, an emissions trading scheme with full auctioning might be expected to raise about $ 10 billion a year, or 1 per cent of GDP over the next decade.

Not exact matches

Western Australian business has not warmed to the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme, with warnings that the policy could drive billions of dollars of investment offshore.

Major new study details how carbon prices across the bloc could double by 2021 if the EU moves to make emissions trading scheme compatible with the Paris Agreement

Yesterday the Herald revealed that agreement had been reached to start the scheme for three years with a fixed price on carbon - a de facto carbon tax - before it becomes an emissions trading scheme in which the market would set the price.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

New York will end an agreement with New Jersey allowing companies to trade emission credits in order to meet pollution standards, a decision that follows accusations by federal prosecutors that the credits were part of a corruption scheme involving a Competitive Power Ventures power plant in New Jersey.

«They're playing high stakes and high risk,» said Kennedy Graham, a Green Party member of parliament in New Zealand, where an emissions trading scheme was amended in 2009 with a weaker version.

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.

Even the typically sluggish United States seems poised to adopt some form of emissions trading scheme, with all three presidential candidates stating their support for some permutation of a carbon trading initiative.

Taken together, these initiatives to combat global warming now cover areas that include half the U.S. population, and state governments are already considering how to harmonize regional trading systems with each other, as well as with the European Union's emissions - trading scheme.

«My current concern with the emissions trading scheme is that a religious fervour has built up around the altar of global warming.

New Zealand last month chose to align climate efforts with the largest emitters such as U.S. and China by taking its pledge under the United Nations Convention Framework, after passing changes to its emissions trading scheme that critics including the Green Party said weakened its obligations.

With these additions, the world's emissions trading schemes are valued at about US$ 30 billion.

The survey also covers expectations about future prices in the EU emissions trading scheme and credits under the Clean Development Mechanism, the Australian price floor and linking with the EU scheme, and the future of Australia's national emissions target.

The reduction is usually associated with a policy target, such as a cap in an emissions trading scheme or a given level of stabilization of heat - trapping gas greenhouse gas) concentrations in the atmosphere.

However, progress is being made on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)-- albeit slowly — to address some of its most serious flaws, including how to deal with non-additional, «hot air» projects in the world's largest emissions trading scheme, the European Emissions Trading Scheme emissions trading scheme, the European Emissions Trading Scheme (Etrading scheme, the European Emissions Trading Scheme Emissions Trading Scheme (ETrading Scheme (EU ETS).

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.

Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas eEmissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissionsemissions.

Will we end up with a de facto baseline and credit scheme or in fact an emissions trading scheme?

Seven north - eastern states have set up the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — emissions stabilisation followed by cuts, with a trading scheme — and six western governors are agitating for federal action.

Carbon pricing regulation is on the rise with China's emissions trading scheme (ETS) likely is to be most disruptive to demand patterns of commodities — Chile introduced carbon pricing this year with Canada and South Africa coming on stream in 2018.

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.

This is why its important to get an emissions trading scheme in place, with details that can be adjusted later, rather than to argue too much about getting the short term parts of the policy exactly right.

I don't understand why an emissions trading scheme would be better than a logically applied carbob tax or why it would be more flexible and more useful than a carbon tax regime combined with other targeted measures.

MEPs will vote on Tuesday to decide whether to go ahead with plans that supporters say will save the bloc's emissions trading scheme

Under a carbon trading scheme, a country with more carbon emissions is able to purchase the right to emit more while the country with less emissions trades the right to emit carbon to other countries.

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.

FIGUERES: We welcome the emissions trading scheme for Ontario, and the news it is going to link with Quebec, which is already linked to California.

The same problems will emerge, in spades, with an emissions trading scheme.

This could be done with an emissions - trading scheme, or by developing the proposed «safeguard» mechanism that features in the Senate - amended version of the Emission Reduction Fund.

This article examines whether a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme has the potential to bring parties into conflict with the WTO provisions in dealing with the initial allocation of permits, non-compliance with emissions targets, emissions trading system enlargement, and trade measures against non-members of an emissions trading club, and relates the discussion to joint implementation with developing countries.

I just woke up to the news that Clive Palmer has had a meeting with Al Gore that has led him to support the renewable energy target and an emissions trading scheme (the latter contingent on other countries taking the same route).

With airlines set to join the European Union emissions trading scheme in January 2012, talks are reportedly underway with other airlines like easyJet, RyanAir and Aer LinWith airlines set to join the European Union emissions trading scheme in January 2012, talks are reportedly underway with other airlines like easyJet, RyanAir and Aer Linwith other airlines like easyJet, RyanAir and Aer Lingus.

JI is one of the three carbon offsetting schemes accredited by the Kyoto protocol — along with emissions trading and the clean development mechanism.

Even the typically sluggish United States seems poised to adopt some form of emissions trading scheme, with all three presidential candidates stating their support for some permutation of a carbon trading initiative.

One problem with the theory is that the chosen instrument, a carbon tax or emissions trading scheme, seems grossly inadequate to the task of destroying the economy.

«It was first suggested by Professor Garnaut to start the emissions trading scheme system with a fixed price and I believe that it's even more relevant now in the political deadlock that we're finding in Parliament.»

Critics feared that emissions trading schemes would lead to the export of pollution to areas where the poor and minority communities lived but a new study says that's not the case, although poor education may be a better indicator of living with pollution.

«The Greens are attempting to break the political deadlock over emissions trading by suggesting an interim two - year scheme with a fixed price on carbon.

With China set to launch its national emissions trading scheme (ETS) before the end of the year, and several other Asia - Pacific nations either doing the same or already in the game, so - called «carbon clubs» are forming and Australia isn't invited.

[4] According to Department of Climate Change timeframes, exposure draft legislation for the national emissions trading scheme, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, will be released in February 2009 with a view to introducing a bill into Parliament in May 2009.

committed low levels of government expenditure on research and development in key areas like energy supply, juxtaposed with the rising importance of low - emissions energy technologies for Australia's mitigation effort, suggest that current funding levels do not reflect the priority required to meet the rapidly changing pattern of demand established by an emissions trading scheme.