Sentences with phrase «do emissions trading systems»

«A lot of people would rather do emissions trading systems, but we believe that carbon taxation would be a lot better,» she said.

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Along with most people who recognise the reality of climate change, I do not doubt that markets and private property rights have, or can have, an important role to play in handling the problem, e.g., through suitably designed emissions trading systems and the like.

While a bill to actually implement a cap - and - trade system eluded state lawmakers in the legislative session that ended in March, they did direct the state Department of Environmental Quality to study «a market - based approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.»

«A cap - and - trade system says, «You have to reduce overall emissions, but how you do it is your business.»

If Congress acts right away to pass President Obama's Recovery package and then takes decisive action this year to institute a cap - and - trade system for CO2 emissions — as many of our states and many other countries have already done — the United States will regain its credibility and enter the Copenhagen treaty talks with a renewed authority to lead the world in shaping a fair and effective treaty.

My point is this: In my view, the Times should find out, and convey to the public (in one place and in organized fashion), the views of each and every Congressperson, and person running for Congress, regarding a moratorium on coal - fired power plants (until their carbon dioxide emissions can be eliminated), a carbon «cap - and - auction» or «cap - and - trade» system, or carbon tax, and related matters having to do with global warming.

«We don't really have enough time to let the system work its way out through proposed solutions like a cap and trading system for emissions.»

She is in Australia to tell us how good Europe's emission trading system is and why we should do something similar.

Japan's draft plan does refer to the possible use of an emissions trading system in the future.

As most smaller emitters don't have the administrative capacity to prove their emissions, they are left out of cap - and - trade systems, as in the EU less then 50 % of emissions being covered.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

The FoE also claims that the carbon trading systems are failing to reduce emissions, while the traders who take advantage of it are getting rich off climate change — and will soon lose control as they did with subprimes.

No games, no gimmicks, no trades, no offsets with something that would have been done anyway, and where on the planet it happens can't matter, or people will game the system by moving emissions to the «proper» country.

But if some offshore drilling and nuclear power entitlements get us comprehensive energy reform, along with a cap and trade system to limit greenhouse gas emissions, I'd argue that it's still worth doing (though I know many who'd argue against it).

In its report the IPCC emphasises the futility of subsidies for renewable energy parallel to an emissions trading system: «The addition of a CO2 reduction policy to a second policy does not necessarily lead to greater CO2 reductions,» it says in a literal translation of the IPCC's Technical Summary: «In an emissions trading scheme with a sufficiently stringent cap other measures such as subsidising renewable energy have no further influence on total CO2 emissions.»

Barreto, L., and G. Klaassen, 2004: Emissions trading and the role of learning - by - doing spillovers in the «bottom - up» energy - systems ERIS model.