Sentences with phrase «wto trading regime»

The three western provinces already operate a reasonable facsimile of what an internal free trade regime should look like with their New West Partnership, which streamlines business regulation, smoothes worker mobility across provincial borders and establishes common transportation standards.

Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime, although key details such as the actual caps and their effect on consumers are yet to be released.

This is why the United States has been at the center of the global trade and capital regime, and why, as I explain in my December 6 essay, if it withdraws, the alternative is not a new system centered on China but rather the disappearance of an orderly global trade regime.

The result is a global steel sector at unviable profit levels and an influx of cheap steel in the global trading system adversely affecting companies, workers, and the global trading regime.

A year later, at the end of 2017, McKenna clarified that provinces have until the end of the year to introduce carbon - pricing schemes, whether they be carbon taxes or cap - and - trade regimes.

In short, while protecting those hurt by a free trade regime should remain a priority, there are policy steps that can be taken that would have a more direct effect on living standards than trade policy.

«In the second trading regime, the salesman offering one piece of apple would, half the time, add a free bonus piece once the disk had been handed over.

In a world of capital scarcity and high investment demand, membership in a trading regime built around large trade and current account surpluses is rewarded by access to equally large capital exports.

By putting working people at the center of our trade regimes, we may be able revive support for them.

The next few years could see a break - up of the current monetary and trading regime and a U.S. turn inward toward isolation.

Conversely, a more restrictive trade regime could raise costs for goods, potentially decreasing consumer spending and diminishing growth.

The Trade Justice Network (TJN) is a network comprised of environmental, labour, cultural, farming, social justice and other civil society organizations that aims to raise awareness about free trade agreements and advocates for a more sustainable, fair and socially just international trade regime.

However, many researchers and commentators have entered the debate to highlight that the demise of corporate trade deals like NAFTA (or the current neoliberal global trade regime more broadly) would not plunge the Canadian economy into chaos.

The TJN has long called for a more equitable, socially just and sustainable model for global trade; and so, in the context of NAFTA, the TJN is continuing to work to present alternatives to the current global trade regime.

Here are some existing proposals for developing alternatives to the current global trade regime:

It emphasizes the need for a more sustainable, equitable and socially just international trade regime.

We need a fairer, more socially just and more sustainable international trade regime.

What if the Progressive Conservatives win the upcoming election in Ontario (or the one after that) and ultimately keep their campaign promise to repeal the provincial Liberals» cap - and - trade regime and reject a pan-Canadian carbon price?

But a tougher U.S. stance to trade still looms as a major threat to the global free - trade regime.

In these negotiations, the USA demanded that the world trade in audiovisual products follows the principles of a free trade regime.

«The implication of that is that if you are holding a stock of Enterprise at the stock exchange at Ghc2 and it is now being sold at almost three, seven times so, it means that your stock on the stock exchange has been undervalued and therefore putting pressure on people to rush for Enterprise Insurance shares and for which reason Enterprise Insurance will now begin to see an increase in the price of their share, not reflected by the fundamentals of the performance of the economy but by a manipulated process outside of the trading regime without clearance from the Securities and Exchanges Commission.

Lurching from a customs union to a default WTO trading regime will wreak havoc on every link in the food supply chain.

In October last year, the WTO ruled that China «s export policies in the field of REMs violate the international trade regime.

Some economists believe a simple tax on greenhouse gas emissions makes more sense than the elaborate cap - and - trade regime for carbon dioxide envisioned by Evolution and other players in the nascent market.

SA: Is something like the Kyoto Protocol, which imposes a global cap - and - trade regime, a good solution?

I can understand politicians behaving this way; a carbon tax or carbon trading regime would allow enormous revenues to fall into their hands.

If anything, such is the approach of the other side, some of whom prefer pigovian - style taxes to a global trading regime in emissions.

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

In the case of the China, seven pilot CO2 cap - and - trade regimes at the local level are under development, while in the United States, California's ambitious AB - 32 cap - and - trade system continues to make progress, and in the northeast, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is witnessing higher allowance auction prices due to the more severe targets the RGGI states recently adopted.

Thus, today there's a keener appreciation that cap - and - trade regimes such as Europe's ambitious Emissions Trading System have been costly failures, with one study suggesting the E.T.S. had «limited benefits and embarrassing consequences» in terms of emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280 billion.

Like the U.S., Australia is ignoring this common sense and pushing ahead to impose an expensive cap - and - trade regime on its economy.

Gore's suspect profiteering in the Silver Spring and Fisker deals are but the tip of the iceberg and pale in comparison to the tens of billions to be made by Gore and his partners at KPCB, Capricorn Investment Group LLC, Generation Investment Management, and Goldman Sachs in the sale of carbon credits in a global cap - and - trade regime.

Nothing in the article indicates that Shultz thinks a carbon tax should replace California's cap - and - trade regime established by AB 32.

A cap and trade regime is just only if the cap is just both in the amount of the cap and how the cap is distributed among emitters.

Many design features of cap and trade regimes can lead to inadequacies of the environmental protection effectiveness of the regime even if the cap is initially sufficiently protective.

This post examines ethical issues raised by the cap and trade regimes that have emerged to solve the climate change crisis in the last decade.

Therefore, spotting ethical issues raised by carbon cap and trade regimes may be practically valuable despite the inability on some issues to determine unambiguously what ethics demands, if spotting the ethical questions leads to eliminating from consideration some positions on these issues that fail to pass minimum ethical scrutiny.

For this reason, design of trading regimes that have been created often reflect the economic interests of those with the financial ability to participate in the design of much more than the interests of those who cant afford to hire experts and lobbyists.

And so there is a potential conflict with assigning property rights to pollute in a carbon cap and trade regime and the duty of governments to protect commons resources for the benefit of all.

Although existing cap and trade regimes differ in many of their details, they all have the following common steps.

If the cap upon which the trading regime is based does not constitute a level of carbon reduction consistent with the nation's duty to reduce emissions, the entire cap and trade regime is unjust.

As we have seen, a cap and trade regime can be unjust if it is does not sufficiently protect those who are vulnerable to climate change.

That is, trading regimes should make it clear that rights to emit are temporary and can be adjusted for cause.

Cap and trade regimes can be understood to give emitters of ghgs a property right to emit at a level consistent with their allocation.

The goal of this post is to spot the major ethical issues raised by carbon cap and trade regimes that have emerged around world, not necessarily to resolve these issues.

(UN, 1992) Yet many cap and trade regimes do not derive the quantity of the cap from these international obligations.

Because of the complexity of cap and trade regimes, strong cases can be made that governments should fund capacity building of groups that don't have the financial resources to hire experts.

Only those who can hire consultants and experts can effectively participate in the creation of trading projects and the development of the rules of the trading regime.

The purpose of this post is not to resolve all ethical issues entailed by cap and trade regimes but to encourage further ethical reflection about these issues.