Not exact matches
The north - west is doing this,
in the Liverpool City Region
in particular and
in several
general key areas: tourism, port expansion, low
carbon, knowledge economy and the soon to be International
Trade Centre.
The codewords that negotiators have adopted for
carbon trading were designed to appease anti-capitalist Latin American governments, which are wary of international markets
in general.
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, secretary
general of the Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi, told an audience of travel
trade professionals the tourism sector has a crucial role to play
in reducing footprint
carbon footprints and combating climate change.
Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, secretary
general of the Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi (EAD), told an audience of travel
trade professionals the tourism sector has a crucial role to play
in reducing footprint
carbon footprints and combating climate change.
The EU has long led the way on
carbon emissions, implementing a cap and
trade system
in 2005, having set ambitious emissions reductions targets, having per person emissions that are less than half of those
in the USA, Canada, and Australia, and which
in general has been the global model on climate policy.
We expect Cap &
Trade systems to be more easily exploited the more
general their application, the wider they cast their nets: although there are some cases where Cap &
Trade might be the most effective and efficient instrument of privatizing the
carbon cycle
in some industries, these are certainly the minority of the entire economy: when faced with the choice of Fee & Dividend vs. Cap &
Trade, the Precautionary Principle thereby indicates we ought favor Fee & Dividend as it is likely the lesser drag on the Market.
In a bravura performance, Shultz articulated the rationales for a
carbon tax (and against cap /
trade), including cap /
trade's price volatility and vulnerability to market manipulation, a
carbon tax's straightforwardness, and the success (and revenue - neutrality) of British Columbia's
carbon tax, as well as the
general power of pricing and the insurance value of a
carbon tax.