Sentences with phrase «emissions trading legislation»
According to the Greens, the interim measure would allow the nation to start addressing its ballooning carbon emissions and provide the Parliament with enough time to resolve differences over the government's emissions trading legislation.
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«The editorial in last weekend's Australian, «Carbon trading is not the only answer» (21/22 February), addressed the controversial issue of the government's planned emissions trading legislation, commenting that «We need to hear other ideas on greenhouse gas reduction».
Listening to the papers presented, the Family First senator became puzzled that the scientific analyses they provided directly contradicted the reasons the Australian government had been giving as the justification for its emissions trading legislation.
Not exact matches
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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.
It gained urgency after the failure of the 2009 legislation known as the Waxman - Markey bill, which was aimed at setting up an emissions trading system in the United States.
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.
Huang says he personally thinks the required conditions will include the establishment of national legislation on emissions trading as well as more matured Chinese carbon markets.
The party opposes «any and all cap and trade legislation» that would create a system of tradable pollution permits designed to reduce industrial emissions of warming gases such as carbon dioxide.
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Price carbon emissions through cap - and - trade legislation or by imposing a carbon tax?
His stance on climate is similar to Mr. McCain's, with both seeking legislation involving cap - and - trading mechanisms to cut greenhouse gas emissions (with slightly different targets and timing).
That's the optimistic opinion put forth by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi — she issued that statement as Congress set about the «mother of all climate weeks» to debate revolutionary climate and energy legislation that could potentially land the US a cap and trade system to cut nationwide carbon emissions.
This is a key issue, and John McCain has put solutions over partisanship to pursue meaningful, market - driven cap and trade legislation aimed at drastically reducing harmful carbon emissions.»
Price carbon emissions through cap - and - trade legislation or by imposing a carbon tax?
He alluded to last year's successful passage of a climate and energy bill in the House, but made no mention of the current proposal by his Democratic allies in the Senate for legislation including a cap and trading mechanism for emissions.
In 2009 and 2010, Graham joined with Democrat John Kerry and independent Joe Lieberman to draft legislation that would have created a cap - and - trade system to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
The UK, surely the ring leader of the climate world with its legislation compelling ever lower carbon emissions, will be reluctant to exert pressure as we hope to come to a trade agreement with America following Brexit.
The carbon tax legislation had been introduced into Parliament in March, paving the way for a subsequent emissions trading scheme.
Government passes climate action legislation to enable the carbon tax, cap and trade, vehicle emissions standards, renewable and low carbon fuel requirements, green community development and low - carbon energy production.
Any near - term action may come in the form of energy legislation that, while helping to reduce U.S. emissions, will not achieve the levels of reduction envisioned under a cap - and - trade scenario.
Wirth, who helped craft a successful emissions - trading market two decades ago that cut sulfur - dioxide pollution causing acid rain, is among Democrats questioning House - passed legislation set to be taken up next month in the Senate.
The resistance by Lincoln and her Senate colleagues undercuts President Barack Obama's effort to win passage of legislation that would cap carbon dioxide emissions and establish a market for trading pollution allowances, said Peter Molinaro, the head of government affairs for Midland, Michigan - based Dow Chemical Co., which supports the measure.
In Europe, legislation forces companies / governments to adhere to emissions reductions targets which artificially supports trading and the price of credits on the European Climate Exchange.
Efforts to pass comprehensive cap - and - trade legislation, which would have promoted the deployment of clean energy by making dirty energy more expensive and thus cut U.S. emissions, failed spectacularly.
Handle greenhouse gas emissions through legislation such as a carbon tax or a cap - and - trade system that addresses such emissions explicitly.
Last week, Christie vetoed legislation that would have required New Jersey to remain in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a multi-state agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions through a regional cap - and - trade program.
In an agreement announced on Feb. 26, 2007, TXU agreed to cancel 8 of its planned 11 new Texas coal - fired power plants as well as several new coal - fired plants in Pennsylvania and Virginia, back federal legislation to create a cap - and - trade system regulating CO2 emissions, and double spending on energy efficiency.
• Cap and trade regimes keep high - cost emitters in the political game because they can reduce their emissions at low cost and thereby help minimize political opposition for climate change legislation.
The owner of the US's only nationwide cap - and - trade market has signalled the death of the seven - year - old industry, saying companies were no longer interested in trading carbon emissions credits in the absence of government legislation.
But Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California, who led the fight in the House to pass cap - and - trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions — only to see that bill die in the Senate — declared the EPA's proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants «a breakthrough.»
Even as the global Kyoto Protocol collapsed and cap and trade legislation foundered in Congress, U.S. emissions have declined faster than any nation's in the world.
This legislation created a cap - and - trade mechanism, a market - based incentive to reduce carbon emissions.
An update on general rate case filings, plus a solar bill stalled in South Carolina, an emissions trading proposal in Virginia, and EV legislation in Illinois.
The legislation, which is modeled after the successful acid rain trading program of the 1990 Clean Air Act, would require a reduction to 2000 carbon dioxide emission levels by the year 2010, and a reduction to 1990 levels by the year 2016.
- Determination of which industries will likely be eligible for the energy - intensive, trade - exposed (EITE) industry allocations provided in the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (HR 2454);
- Assessment of the potential impacts of this legislation on EITE industries;
- Identification of additional data that would be useful for determining trade impacts, allocation requirements, and greenhouse gas emission in other countries; and
- The other measures within ACES that could help to mitigate the effects of a cap - and - trade system on EITE industries.
Strong mitigation policies at the national level are currently held hostage by slow and cumbersome post-Kyoto international negotiation processes, the public policy mess left behind by Bush and Cheney, and the complex political labyrinth standing between the need to slash emissions and the legislation needed to make it happen, whether that be cap - and - trade or some other policy tool.
As the United States, the European Union and other Annex I Parties prepare legislation to cap greenhouse gas emissions post-2012, their policymakers are under increasing pressure from domestic constituencies to include trade measures as part of domestic climate policy.
Bills to impose a carbon tax or create a cap - and - trade system are dead for now, although Boxer is nonetheless touting legislation to set a price on carbon emissions.
These members claim to «support economy - wide reductions in CO2 emissions and / or federal cap - and - trade legislation»: Alcoa, Caterpillar, Deere & Co., Dow Chemical, Duke Energy, Eastman Kodak, Entergy, Fox Entertainment, IBM, Lockheed, Nike, PepsiCo., PNM Resources, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Toyota, and Xerox.
Of the various ways the bill looks to change the nature of how to deal with carbon emissions, cap - and - trade will form the basic structure if the landmark legislation is passed.
The big question for me is whether Turnbull will bring the Opposition around to supporting legislation for an emissions trading scheme (after extracting various concessions of course).
A week ago my Fin column (over the fold) predicted a double dissolution over legislation to establish an emissions trading scheme.
Cap - and - trade is the cornerstone of the state's historic climate legislation, Assembly Bill 32 (AB32), which mandates a reduction in carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
Everyone agrees that it's far reaching legislation, and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has made mention of the event as a reason for Australia to hurry - up with its own emissions trading laws.
Unlike the cap - and - trade legislation Inslee sought last year, the rule adopted Thursday won't charge emitters a fee for carbon emissions.
Ever since an attempt to pass cap - and - trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions failed in 2010, the president has seemed almost mute on the topic — with a few rare exceptions mostly when speaking overseas, frustrated environmentalists say.
Last year, the House passed energy and climate - change legislation, but its ambitious «cap and trade» system for limiting carbon emissions is a nonstarter in the Senate.
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Airlines Must Reduce Emissions 3 % In First Year In a move which has predictably angered the airline industry, the European Union has overwhelmingly passed legislation which will include airlines in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme from 2012.