Sentences with phrase «tradeable carbon»

auctioning tradeable carbon emissions permits.

Not exact matches

This has implications for green taxes (which includes carbon taxes and tradeable emissions cap).

We believe that supporting C&C; in the UK requires adoption of carbon rationing, with a tradeable ability, not green taxation.

For energy companies willing to accept some limits on warming gases, one goal is to firm up a market for tradeable credits earned by companies that make sharp cuts in emissions or plant or protect forests, which absorb carbon dioxide.

«If Wall Street traders can commodify sub-prime mortgages with impunity, and the Enrons of the world can manipulate energy markets like a pinball machine, imagine a future when tradeable permits for carbon dioxide and other heat - trapping gases are auctioned and swapped ov...

In particular, it points out that, in order to effectively couple climate financing with strong and measurable sustainable development criteria, there is a need to move beyond carbon as a standalone tradeable commodity, by increasingly valuing the significant range of additional ecosystem and socio - economic services provided by sustainable agriculture practices and programmes that simultaneously address climate concerns and sustainable rural development priorities.

And yet carbon and development projects that result in carbon credits tradeable on the open market are a tried and tested way of mitigating climate change.

Companies could buy and sell credits among themselves, and could satisfy up to 15 percent of its emission reduction requirements by submitting tradeable allowances from another nation's market in greenhouse gases, or by contributing to projects that sequester carbon dioxide emissions.

The Prospects For Personal Carbon Trading, says that since «unlike food rations during the war, carbon credits would be tradeable» and «that could give an edge».

But the central element must be to ensure that there is a price attached to carbon emissions, whether through taxes or through tradeable permits.

The full details of the report are far too long to list here, but recommendations include a near total shift to electric - powered modes of transport, the introduction of tradeable personal carbon rations, and a large reduction in the farming of livestock.

An international carbon tax or system of tradeable permits with substantial LDC participation will not happen in the next 20 years.

The second part of the executive session focused on specific policy responses with emphasis on the feasibility of adopting carbon taxes and / or a comprehensive tradeable permit scheme.