Sentences with phrase «as tradable permits»

We could endlessly debate the merits of alternative control measures such as tradable permits, taxes, and industrial standards.

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The party opposes «any and all cap and trade legislation» that would create a system of tradable pollution permits designed to reduce industrial emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.

But Borenstein noted that policymakers are considering a far lower price — $ 20 per ton of greenhouse gases — as the maximum that industry could be charged in proposed tradable emissions permit programs.

Economists often talk as though putting a price on carbon emissions through tradable permits or a carbon tax will be enough to deliver the needed reductions in those emissions.

Despite the potential cost - effectiveness of market - based policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradable permits, conventional approaches — including design and uniform performance standards — have been the mainstay of U.S. environmental policy since before the first Earth Day in 1970.

Tradable Permits: These are also known as marketable permits or cap - and - trade sPermits: These are also known as marketable permits or cap - and - trade spermits or cap - and - trade systems.

Tradable permits are linked to emitters, who have to be controlled administratively as direct emission measurement is hardly ever possible.