Sentences with phrase «emissions caps in»

Domestic aviation has been subject to emissions caps in Europe for some five years now.

To adjust emissions caps in the future, the allowances would expire periodically, perhaps as often as once a year.

Due to varying factors, initial emissions caps in the European Union, the U.S. Northeast and California all ended up comfortably above actual emissions, so businesses have not had to pay high prices or face significant incentives to curb their emissions.

Hence, such assistance would result in more emissions under a carbon tax and would increase the cost of meeting the emissions cap in a cap - and - trade program.

It is rather unlikely that China's pilot carbon trading schemes will lead to an economy - wide emission cap in the near future (they might lead to sectoral national schemes first and an economy - wide cap later).

The regional emissions cap in 2021 will be equal to 75,147,784 tons and will decline by 2.275 million tons of CO2 per year thereafter, resulting in a total 30 % reduction in the regional cap from 2020 to 2030.

The final figures for the annual emission caps in phase 3 will be determined and published by the Commission by 30 September 2010.

It imposes annual emission caps in place of EPA's interim targets but states have the flexibility to spread emissions reductions over the 10 - year compliance period

The plan tightens the emissions cap in the nation's first market to cut carbon pollution.

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 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.

With high oil prices persistently poised to derail the global economy, with large economies like Germany and Japan swearing off nuclear in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, with coal hampered by looming emissions caps, unexpectedly abundant gas seems poised to fill the energy void.

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.

However, the government added, such targets should be «ambitious enough to lead to absolute reductions in emissions and thus support the establishment of a fixed cap on emissions.»

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.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

This will be accomplished through a combination of a «cap and trade» carbon pricing system, mandatory vehicle emission standards, and investing in renewable energy production and consumption.

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.

The report claims the emissions cap included in Alberta government's climate change plan will cost Canada's oil sands industry $ 250 billion and is the latest in a concerted effort by conservative opponents of the NDP to undermine its flagship policy.

Any reduction in oil sands output from the levels imposed by the emissions cap will create even more surplus pipeline export capacity without the Trans Mountain project.

He cited the Paris climate accord, in which governments committed to capping heat - trapping emissions, as an example of taking action to fight global warming based on scientific evidence.

In 2013, Governor Cuomo led the RGGI states in reducing the emission cap 50 percent by 202In 2013, Governor Cuomo led the RGGI states in reducing the emission cap 50 percent by 202in reducing the emission cap 50 percent by 2020.

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 state will work with other governments in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative with determining how to link success carbon markets to cap emissions.

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.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin the state's history.»

He voted in favor of the stimulus but against a «cap and trade» bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative have agreed to reduce the cap on emissions an additional 30 percent below 2020 levels by 2030.

Former Vice President Al Gore today lauded what he called «the best, most hopeful step» in years to contain global warming: 16 state prosecutors joining New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's crusade against energy giants that they assert have fraudulently fought caps on greenhouse gas emissions.

Yet plans to tackle automobile emissions remain in their infancy outside California, which has implemented an economywide cap - and - trade program and a host of policies aimed at curbing carbon from cars and trucks.

China leans toward cap and trade In a separate effort published yesterday, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded that climate policy researchers who work in China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costlIn a separate effort published yesterday, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology report concluded that climate policy researchers who work in China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costlin China would prefer an emissions trading market that puts the highest burden on energy - intensive regions and cities in eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costlin eastern China and, as the market moves west, becomes less costly.

Lamatogne is pushing to follow New Jersey's lead and pull New Hampshire out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap - and - trade program limiting utility emissions in New England states, New York, Delaware and Maryland.

Current debate on Capitol Hill and in many statehouses favors programs that cap emissions and lower the cap over time, using permits to ensure compliance.

It also stirred confusion about the governor's legal authority and what will happen to the carbon trading program, which caps utility carbon dioxide emissions in 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, at a time when national climate legislation appears dead on Capitol Hill.

Marshallese President Hilda Heine said in a statement Friday that the resolution had made the Marshall Islands a little safer from catastrophic sea - level rise, a goal that a «landmark sectoral cap» on emissions and periodic updates would help achieve.

If they exceed the cap, they can purchase credits generated by projects to reduce emissions in developing countries.

Seven pilot regions in the world's most polluting nation will launch markets to cap - and - trade greenhouse gas emissions

International forest emission reductions should be fully interchangeable with other emission reductions in the cap - and - trade system, they said.

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.

So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

In fact, it will only make our problems worse, as proven in Europe, where cap - and - trade hurt the economy, drove up energy costs, and failed to cut carbon emissions at alIn fact, it will only make our problems worse, as proven in Europe, where cap - and - trade hurt the economy, drove up energy costs, and failed to cut carbon emissions at alin Europe, where cap - and - trade hurt the economy, drove up energy costs, and failed to cut carbon emissions at all.

In that regard, I introduced the first Cap and Dividend legislation in the United States Congress, which would have put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and rebated the proceeds to consumers in the form of a Healthy Climate DividenIn that regard, I introduced the first Cap and Dividend legislation in the United States Congress, which would have put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and rebated the proceeds to consumers in the form of a Healthy Climate Dividenin the United States Congress, which would have put a price on greenhouse gas emissions and rebated the proceeds to consumers in the form of a Healthy Climate Dividenin the form of a Healthy Climate Dividend.

Why trading trumps carbon taxes Cap and trade entered China's political agenda in 2009, when the government here promised a 40 to 45 percent cut in its emissions per unit of economic output by 2020 against 2005 levels.

Close examination of the Galileo Movement's arguments shows that the effort is recycling many of the same straw man arguments and distortions about the science that other groups have previously employed to scuttle a cap - and - trade bill in the U.S. Congress last year, a stricter emissions trading scheme in New Zealand three years ago and other regional and national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission capIn a paper published in the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission capin the current Journal of Political Economy, Bård Harstad, an associate professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, argues that the most effective strategies to combat climate change do not focus on demand - side solutions such as carbon taxes or emission caps.

The state has long led the U.S. in environmental regulations, from high vehicle - emissions standards to a greenhouse gas cap - and - trade program — and it has done so without sacrificing its economy.

The bill that died in committee earlier this year, S.B. 1574, would have authorized a cap - and - trade program, with its revenues going toward activities that reduce emissions, explicitly including road improvements.

McConnaha said the study would draw on existing research that has informed existing cap - and - trade programs, including California's, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the Northeast and the European Union's Emissions Trading System.