Sentences with phrase «carbon pilot cities»

Look for more specific targets in its new Plan, such as more renewable energy targets pre-2020, additional caps on coal production, more low - carbon pilot cities and a rebalancing of the economy from heavy industry and steel to a focus on services.

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Also at noon, NYC Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Ydanis Rodriguez announce the introduction of a bill to create a pilot program for electric vehicle charging stations on street parking, aiming to encourage the use of electric cars, and help reduce carbon emissions citywide, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

To control greenhouse gases the Chinese government is experimenting with pilot programs in seven cities and regions that use carbon markets

Five cities and regions set up new pilot carbon trading platforms last year to encourage local enterprises to address soaring greenhouse gas emissions and two more will be launched in 2014.

In China, the government is also getting serious — revealing more details about its pilot emissions trading scheme, canvassing a flat carbon tax on certain industries, and also announcing that it would impose emission caps on certain provinces and cities, including the powerhouse economy of Guangdong, and the key commercial hubs of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen, in preparation for the ETS.

The City of Shenzhen was the first of seven Chinese pilot cities to launch an emissions trading scheme (ETS), allowing companies to trade carbon emissions.

(05/23/2013) China has unveiled details of its first pilot carbon - trading program, which will begin next month in the southern city of Shenzhen.

Australia's top five trading partners China, Japan, the United States (US), the Republic of Korea and Singapore and another eight of our top twenty trading partners (New Zealand, the UK, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Canada) have implemented or are piloting carbon trading or taxation schemes at national, state or the city level.»