"Emissions quotas" refers to the limits or allowances set for the amount of pollutants or greenhouse gases that can be released into the environment. It is an effort to control and reduce pollution, ensuring that industries or countries do not exceed their allocated emissions to help combat climate change.
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UK's former chief scientist calls instead for a system where each nation is awarded a
carbon emissions quota based on population
The contentious part of ETS would require airlines to purchase permits should they exceed predetermined
annual emissions quotas.
As previously reported by CoinDesk, technology giant IBM has already started exploring the use of a blockchain platform in pushing energy - intensive corporations in China to trade their unused
CO2 emission quotas, as part of the country's wider effort to combat air pollution.
EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has criticised the most recent National Allocation Plans proposed by member states for distribution of carbon permits, as they allocate even
higher emissions quotas than actual emissions in the first phase of the scheme.
The same EU also implements its own CO2 reduction policy (ETS and
decreasing emission quotas), despite the protests from the industry and member states.
We estimate that the
remaining emission quota to stay below two degrees Celsius requires China to reduce emissions at around 8 to 10 percent per year and this is, in many cases, greater than the mitigation challenge for the United States.
And that trillion dollar a year cost may end up being a trillion dollar a year transfer to the governments of developing countries for the purchase of their
carbon emissions quotas.
It could then sell its extra permits to other polluting companies struggling to meet
their emissions quota.
I think it is the strategy of the carmakers to fit engines that are within the new
emission quotas to their best selling models as this greatly affects the overall emission quotas they are required to meet.
Dave (# 2): I appreciate your concerns over population growth but I can not agree that
emissions quotas should be based on land area: not all land is created equal.
For fans of market mechanisms, an existing European scheme for trading carbon -
emissions quotas will be tightened up and a separate trading scheme created to set up a market in renewable power certificates among EU members.
In the EU,
emission quotas were so generous that it was difficult to finance CCS because the price of carbon was so low.
If
an emissions quota system is adopted, decisions will be needed on the relationship of the system to the carbon dioxide tax, and on the mechanism for allocating quotas.
If an industrial nation were to exceed
its emission quota, it could purchase the unused rights from lower - emitting countries, but the rulebook for these trades is still being worked out.