Sentences with phrase «emissions leakage»

RFF research has informed the design of a number of these policies and RFF experts are continuing to look at how states and regions design climate initiatives, manage issues such as emissions leakage and competitiveness concerns, and balance economic and environmental goals.

This, EPA says, will help to avoid emissions leakage to new units and to encourage the increased generation at existing NGCC units that is built into the targets under Building Block 2.

Under the proposed model rule and federal plan, EPA proposes to freely allocate allowances to existing sources based on historical generation minus certain set - asides (explained below), which the agency believes will help mitigate emissions leakage to new sources.

The problem is compounded by emissions leakage as rapidly declining fuel demand in developed countries exerts downward pressure on global fuel prices, which in turn makes fuel use and emissions an economically more attractive option in countries without mitigation policies.

The modeling indicates that, even absent the mitigating allocation measures, total annual emission leakage to unregulated countries associated with a cap - and - trade program & rsquo; s impacts on the international competitiveness of domestic & ldquo; trade - vulnerable & rdquo; industries is likely to be only on the order of 10 MMTCO2e.

Emissions leakage occurs when sources outside of a carbon pricing system increase economic activity and associated emissions as a result of that system.

Any non-zero carbon price in Washington and Oregon would start to mitigate a problem facing both California and British Columbia: emissions leakage.

In fact, Oregon could virtually eliminate any emissions leakage from California by pegging its carbon price to California's allowance price — a strategy of aligning program elements we point out in our «linking by degrees» discussion paper.