Vaughan, S. (1997),
Tradeable Emissions Permits and the WTO, Presented at the European Union Advanced Study Course on Goals and Instruments for the Achievement of Global Warming Mitigation in Europe, 20 - 26 July, Berlin.
This has implications for green taxes (which includes carbon taxes and
tradeable emissions cap).
Not exact matches
Because the permits are
tradeable, companies would have a financial incentive to cut back their
emissions using newer technologies.
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.
For purposes of this section, the term «cap and trade program» means a system of greenhouse gas regulation under which a State or political subdivision issues a limited number of tradable instruments in the nature of
emission allowances and requires that sources within its jurisdiction surrender such
tradeable instruments for each unit of greenhouse gases emitted during a compliance period.
As a member of the Climate Change Authority, I'm constrained to some extent in what I can say about the plan to bring forward the date at which
emission permits will become
tradeable, so I'm going to make a few points, and leave discussion to others
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.
Ellerman, A.D., 2002: Designing a
tradeable permit system to control SO2
emissions in China: Principles and practice.
But the central element must be to ensure that there is a price attached to carbon
emissions, whether through taxes or through
tradeable permits.
auctioning
tradeable carbon
emissions permits.
It is much harder to prejudice the value of
emissions certificates because they are
tradeable commodities.