Sentences with phrase «emissions caps for»

Pan, J., 2005: Meeting human development goals with low emissions: An alternative to emissions caps for post-Kyoto from a developing country perspective.

; e) how to address the complex undertaking of setting emissions caps for developing countries, which must be linked to future, unobserved levels in comparison with the historically observed levels for industrialized countries?.

All these developments in China are encouraging considering also that South Korea and Mexico, two other non-Annex I countries — developing countries as defined in the U.N. climate treaty process — recently indicated a willingness to enact carbon emissions caps for 2020.

GHG emission trajectories that are consistent with the goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 or 2ºC, translate into a global carbon budget that represents a de-facto emissions cap for the whole economy.

Not exact matches

In 2008, Canada and the U.S. seemed to be moving to introduce cap - and - trade schemes that would have imposed a price for carbon emissions.

While on the stump, Obama promised to establish a cap and trade program to reign in the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality will begin presenting its draft greenhouse gas program next week to the state's pollution board for approval to create the state's first cap - and - trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The pope repeated the strong call for environmental stewardship that he had made with his latest encyclical, Laudato Si, and Xi Jinping announced that China will launch a cap - and - trade system for carbon emissions in 2017.

The move would cap a tumultuous time in charge for Mr. Müller, who took over after the carmaker admitted that it had cheated on diesel emissions tests.

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First, Trudeau had to work with the NDP government in Alberta to twin his plan for a national price on carbon with its provincial plan and with its idea to put an emission cap on the oil sands.

Heather Scoffield explores three options for reducing carbon emissions — a carbon tax, cap - and - trade and regulation — and explains that each involve costs.

Provinces where agriculture is a significant part of the economy could opt for a cap - and - trade scheme which would guarantee emission reduction and reward good stewardship.

The US committed to reduce emissions by 26 to 28 per cent below 2005 levels by 2025, and for the first time China accepted a cap on its emissions, pledging...

There targets will be achieved through government laws imposed on industries, as well as national caps for industrial emissions commonly associated with smog and acid rain.

But as the consortium of Asian energy companies that submitted the Canadian project for regulatory approval three years ago weighs it's options in a global energy market now flooded with cheap oil and gas, and further considers the 190 conditions attached to Ottawa's approval, including a cap on annual green house gas emissions, it may be some time before this project crosses the finish line.

His other challenge came out of my major moral claim, that any serious effort to reduce emissions by any significant amount, let alone the 60 - 80 % called for by the European Union and some of our presidential candidates, would destroy economies all over the world and condemn the poor to perpetual poverty - which is why China and India will have nothing to do with emissions caps.

The bill aims to ameliorate these effects by allowing emitting plants to continue for a while by buying permits or allowances from other producers whose emissions are below their allowances — hence «cap and trade.»

President Obama's plan for national standards to curb power plant emissions is based, in part, on a cap and trade type program already existence in New York.

The RGGI CO2 cap represents a regional budget for CO2 emissions from the power sector.

Last September California became the first US state to impose a cap on the emission of carbon dioxide and other gases and has since called for other states to follow suit.

The ad accuses Slaughter of a voting for a slew of tax increases, including the so - called «cap and trade» emissions measure and trots out the frequent Republicant talking point that the 2010 federal health care bill cuts $ 716 billion for Medicare, which is actually spread out over 10 years and targets subsidies to insurance companies.

The targets place the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) at the heart of EU policy on climate change, with support for an EU - wide central cap on eEmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) at the heart of EU policy on climate change, with support for an EU - wide central cap on emissionsemissions.

As compensation, the transport secretary said the government would push for a European cap on aviation emissions, set below current levels.

The UK government was praised for leading the way in pushing for a cap of emissions, but will need to do more to persuade other EU states of the need for firmer action and should campaign for an EU - wide cap on emissions.

Cuomo is calling for more offshore wind energy projects and new caps on carbon emissions from smaller power plants.

«With this proposal, New York will lower the emissions cap even further and set the precedent for recognizing and taking action against climate change to support the future of communities across the globe,» said Governor Cuomo.

Make polluters pay for Governor Pataki's plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

Make polluters pay for Governor Pataki's plan to cap greenhouse gas emissions — generating up to $ 500 million.

In his email, Martens mentions everything from lowering the cap on greenhouse gas emissions and securing funding for long - neglected flood control structures and coastal erosion projects to banning the sale and importation of elephant and rhinoceros ivory and undertaking «one of the largest additions to the forest preserve in the state's history.»

Environmental protections: Cuomo called for Northeast and eastern states that are part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap - and - trade program, to further reduce emissions.

The governor highlighted the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative as one of the ways his administration will act, pushing for a more aggressive cap on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.

It had a near - miss for capping carbon emissions after the House passed the «American Clean Energy and Security Act» by a narrow vote of 219 - 212 in June 2009, only to see it dissolve in the Senate controlled by Democrats a year later.

Over the summer President Obama sketched a concept for a cap - and - trade bill that would legislate significant cuts in the United States» carbon emissions, but widespread skepticism — along with a weak economy — forced Senate majority leader Harry Reid to concede last July that such a bill would not pass.

Four out of seven Chinese pilot regions — Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin and Hubei — have issued their versions of cap - and - trade plans for greenhouse gas emissions.

«It is our view that the first step for Chinese ETS is to get the system right from the beginning — the trading platform; the monitoring, reporting and verification system; [emissions] inventories; getting companies informed and cooperative — and gradually shift toward more stringent caps,» says Li Shuo, a climate and energy campaigner for Greenpeace East Asia.

As a result, the NRDC, the EDF, the Clean Air Task Force and other groups support both a cap - and - trade scheme to limit CO2 emissions as well as subsidies for the first CCS coal - fired power plants to be built.

Energy Both John McCain and Barack Obama have called for a cap - and - trade system to cut carbon emissions, although Obama's proposed reduction (80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050) is larger than McCain's (65 percent).

And although it may prepare them for any federal program — both presidential candidates support a national cap - and - trade program for greenhouse gas emissions — it may also end up driving electricity production outside the region higher.

If a company reduces its emissions below the cap, it can sell excess permits for a profit.

Some economists believe a simple tax on greenhouse gas emissions makes more sense than the elaborate cap - and - trade regime for carbon dioxide envisioned by Evolution and other players in the nascent market.

Meanwhile, leaders in China, analysts there say, are seriously debating a 2025 peak year for greenhouse gas emissions as well as an absolute cap on coal within the next five years.

Li argued that the best way for China's emissions to peak is for the government to cap coal consumption in the next five - year plan.

A strong energy package approved last year by a key Senate panel is seen as a sweetener for passing a much more controversial cap - and - trade system to regulate the emissions of greenhouse gases.

That legislation, which Klein calls «the granddaddy of all emissions trading markets,» created a cap - and - trade system for utilities to reduce the sulfur - based pollutants that cause acid rain.

Taxes give clear, long - term price signals that make it easier for firms to make intelligent investments that will cut carbon emissions, whereas the price volatility of cap - and - trade systems impedes wise planning.

If cap and trade is not legal, then EPA should not accept it as a compliance plan, he said, even if California's emissions are projected to be well below the federal cap for 2030.

In his campaign last fall, President Barack Obama called for a «cap and trade» plan that would auction off carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions allowances to big carbon polluters.

Environmental justice advocates, who have long criticized cap and trade for its propensity to allow businesses to avoid reducing emissions at the source, praised the lack of an immediate link to international deforestation programs.

Soon after Barack Obama was elected president, congressional climate change advocates set their sights on passing a cap - and - trade bill in time for him to bring a firm U.S.commitment on emissions reductions to this week's climate meeting in Copenhagen.