Sentences with phrase «carbon trading mechanisms»

We show the temperature changes that result from exchanging CO2 for CH4 using a variety of commonly suggested metrics to illustrate the trade - offs involved in potential carbon trading mechanisms that place a high value on CH4 emissions.

In calling for the development of new carbon trading mechanisms, the Paris Agreement has theoretically established the foundation for a carbon market focused more on mitigating than on offsetting pollution.

The agreement recognizes carbon trading mechanisms as a legitimate solution.

The Governor has spent the last months promoting the expansion of complicated market - based carbon trading mechanisms, known as «Cap - and - Trade,» as a cornerstone of...

Increasing allegations of corruption and profiteering are raising serious questions about the UN-run carbon trading mechanism aimed at cutting pollution and rewarding clean technologies By Patrick McCully The world's biggest carbon offset market, the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM), is run by the UN, administered by the World Bank, and is intended to reduce -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Turns out I'm not the only one to notice that in the debate over the best mechanism to combat global warming, the pols seem to prefer cap - and - trade systems to a carbon tax.

A 2015 report by Canada's EcoFiscal Commission sheds light on the issue of energy intensive trade exposed business sectors, and the need to consider competiveness implications in shaping and implementing carbon pricing mechanisms.

Another issue loaded with political implications is the proposed carbon - credit trading mechanism, by which countries with less «pollution» than their set limits can sell credits to those that exceed their quotas.

Since the Kyoto protocol came into force in 2005, companies in the developing world can generate greenhouse gas emission reductions and sell them as «carbon credits» in the developed world through such mechanisms as the European Union's Environmental Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which is similar to schemes in Japan and New Zealand.

«But if China starts carbon trading without adequate preparation, there could be problems, and that could hurt the public's confidence on this new mechanism.»

The ambitious goal of those Chinese regionwide carbon trading pilots is to prove that the mechanisms work and can be deployed on a larger scale.

Luyssaert suggests that credit — and money — should be given to protect such old - growth forests under carbon trading schemes and other economic mechanisms to combat climate change.

Behind the carbon wheeling and dealing lies a market mechanism called cap - and - trade.

EU officials have confirmed they will move to address controversial carbon credits that «game» the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and undermine the effectiveness of the EU emissions trading scheme (ETS)...

The burgeoning carbon trade market, and it's related REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degredation) mechanism, could very well make land more attractive as an asset for foreign investors.

The index currently includes two carbon - related credit plans: European Union Emission Trading Scheme or EU ETS Phase II and Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism.

I have to ask what are we subsiizing; perhaps we should shift emphasis in our tax policy or put a true market mechanism in place by putting a tax neutral carbon tax in place (as the CBO recommends), or at least one that auctions the rights off in a Cap and Trade system that seems to be the only politically viable solution.

The consequences of this are so enormous, taken in the context of the history of technology and civilization, that it is amazing why anyone would oppose such steps, small and innocuous by comparison, as a carbon tax (better, in my opinion) or a cap and trade mechanism.

The trade part is just a mechanism to incentivize those who can reduce emissions faster to do so, and those who can develop low to no carbon technologies to do so.

The comment, made during a Jan. 17 interview with the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle, essentially explains how the kind of cap and trade mechanism sought by both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain (the latter at least in his platform, if not on the stump) would make coal combustion ever more costly (unless the world finally gets serious about investing in large - scale testing and deployment of systems for capturing and burying carbon dioxide).

Building a global carbon market based on global financial markets would also require the development of a global registry and market instruments allowing international trading and an expanded role for project - based mechanisms (such as the Clean Development Mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol).

I read this in the paper this morning, geenwashing, I suspect much of the carbon trade «offset» mechanism has similar aspects.

However, if some (or many) of these efforts have some smoke - and - mirror aspect to them, or if they become the seemingly easy «solution du jour» and allow us to think that we can avoid larger solutions (fuel efficiency standards; carbon tax, or firm carbon cap combined with a robust and regulated carbon credit trading mechanism; substantial investments in new energy technologies; energy conservation; etc.), their net impact can be more damaging than beneficial.

With other approaches to an energy and climate bill blocked — including carbon taxes or a broader cap - and - trade mechanism for controlling emissions — the only viable alternative appears to be to limit a cap to utilities, the one sector that's already familiar with smokestack rules and markets in emissions credits.

There's lots of overlap between ending our oil addiction in the United States and combatting climate change, with setting a price on carbon (regardless of the mechanism used, be it cap and trade, a carbon tax, or something

We definitely need some sort of mechanism to assign a cost / price to carbon emissions, but that could be a carbon tax of some sort rather than a cap - and - trade system.

I think people should ask any company (or company representative) that claims to be «green», or wants to sell a «green» product to them, whether that company firmly supports a carbon cap of some sort (along with a well - regulated carbon credit trading mechanism) or a carbon tax.

Do you support, and will you implement, a «carbon tax» OR a robust carbon cap combined with a regulated mechanism of carbon credit trading?

Regardless of the mechanism chosen, any carbon pricing system implemented should be Revenue Neutral so that the government does not become dependent on the revenue from the fee, tax or trade credits.

At the province's in - person climate change consultations it became clear that civil society was suspicious of the «Cap and Trade» carbon pricing mechanism that the fossil fuel industry generally prefers.

After abolishing its carbon price in 2014, Australia launched a new «safeguard mechanism» — a modified form of cap - and - trade — in 2016.

Instead, they demanded an unworkable framework of legally binding international emissions targets, influenced and supported by climate hawks who demanded a laser focus on increasing renewable deployment and energy efficiency, mainly through market mechanisms such as cap - and - trade and carbon taxes.

In particular, there is the matter of its extreme reliance on a carbon trading scheme called the Clean Development Mechanism — a mechanism that is currently dead in the water following the lacklustre «Copenhagen AccorMechanism — a mechanism that is currently dead in the water following the lacklustre «Copenhagen Accormechanism that is currently dead in the water following the lacklustre «Copenhagen Accord».

The deal prohibits state or local pollution authorities like CARB from directly regulating carbon emissions from refineries, as it legislates the market mechanism of cap - and - trade as the sole means within the state for regulating carbon emissions from stationary sources like refineries out to 2030.

As California lawmakers prepare to launch the state's cap and trade program as part of its Global Warming Solutions Act, or AB32, indigenous leaders traveled to Sacramento to urge officials not to include an international forest - based carbon offset mechanism, known as REDD, in the law.

It differs from how I would do it, as does the British Columbia Revenue Neutral Carbon Tax (successful and growing in popularity for 4 years now), the Australian Pricing Mechanism, or any of the Cap & Trade schemes or various carbon taxes that return nothing to the owners of the carbon cycle.

• Trading provides a mechanism for making carbon emissions reductions at lowest possible cost.

This means, most immediately, honesty about the troubled «Clean Development Mechanism,» but it also means protecting Kyoto's carbon trading system, without which we'd never have gotten even this far, and without which the climate regime can not possibly survive.

However, the INDC allows for the country to heavily use international market mechanisms, such as offsets or through carbon trading, to reach its goals.

Our results show that preserving land for its carbon value is worth more than sawit kelapa at present prices for carbon in legally binding markets: $ 9.99 million for the EU ETS Trading Scheme, $ 8.02 million for the Secondary Clean Development Mechanism, and $ 6.32 million for State of the Voluntary Markets report.

Literally, time is a major obstacle for states wanting to join existing carbon trading programs such as RGGI or California's cap - and - trade program as a compliance mechanism, according to state regulators speaking at the C2ES event.

This legislation created a cap - and - trade mechanism, a market - based incentive to reduce carbon emissions.

It is in this context that the recent reform of the European Emissions Trading scheme (EU - ETS)-- and in particular the introduction of the new mechanism for modulating supply, known as the Market Stability Reserve (MSR)-- is so interesting: it has thrust the issue of carbon pricing back into the headlines, not least owing to the 200 % increase in EU carbon prices since May last year.

If the international community decides that it is indeed willing to pay for this service — through carbon taxes, mandatory cap - and - trade carbon markets, or some other mechanism — to whom would that money be owed and under what circumstances?

If all goes well — which for Picarro means, essentially, that the world takes seriously the challenge of climate change, and institutes some kind of cap - and - trade or carbon - tax mechanism that requires detailed analysis of exactly who is pumping what into the atmosphere — then Picarro is looking at a solidly growing market.

Looking forward, things to watch include: the impact of economic recovery on commodity prices and agricultural expansion for food and biofuels production; large - scale land acquisition by foreign nations and corporations in tropical countries; climate negotiations and the REDD mechanism, including controversies over land rights, «offsetting», forest definitions, and sustainable forest management; the emergence of payments for ecosystem services beyond REDD; the cap - and - trade versus carbon tax schemes; efforts to address the demand side of deforestation — notably consumption; emerging certification systems for agricultural and forestry products (i.e. RSPO, Aliança da Terra, FSC, etc); and Brazil's progress in meeting its deforestation reduction targets.

We should not forget that the most efficient policies would target externalities directly, through mechanisms such as an economywide carbon price, cap - and - trade policies, and gasoline taxes.

That is why, EIA sent a letter to the Japanese Prime Minister, urging him to ensure that Japan's new carbon trading scheme, the Bilateral Offset Credit Mechanism (BOCM) does not use HFC - 23 credits.

# 38 Trade carbon for capital... «One of the most ambitious of the Kyoto Protocol's plans to help cut greenhouse gases was the Clean Development Mechanism, through which companies in the rich world could earn credit not for reducing their own emissions but for investing in energy efficient projects in the developing world.»

It demonstrates that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the world's largest carbon market, has consistently failed to» cap» emissions, while the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) routinely favours environmentally ineffective and socially unjust projects.