Sentences with phrase «emissions phasedown»
Given the relative ease with which a flat carbon price can be made international [236], a rapid global emissions phasedown is feasible.
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Given the relative ease with which a flat carbon price can be made international [236], a rapid global emissions phasedown is feasible.
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In order to bestow upon future generations a planet like the one we received, we need to win on all three counts, and by far the most important is rapid phasedown of fossil fuel emissions.
Rapid phasedown of fossil fuel emissions is the crucial need, because of the millennial timescale of this carbon in the climate system.
In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).
In order to bestow upon future generations a planet like the one we received, we need to win on all three counts, and by far the most important is rapid phasedown of fossil fuel emissions.