Sentences with phrase «emissions trading regime»

As landholder and land managers with particular interests in the conservation and forestry estates an in Crown land more generally, Traditional Owners may be well - placed as players in a carbon emissions trading regime, for example, through carbon credited vegetation management programs.

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Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime, although key details such as the actual caps and their effect on consumers are yet to be released.

Some economists believe a simple tax on greenhouse gas emissions makes more sense than the elaborate cap - and - trade regime for carbon dioxide envisioned by Evolution and other players in the nascent market.

If anything, such is the approach of the other side, some of whom prefer pigovian - style taxes to a global trading regime in emissions.

Thus, today there's a keener appreciation that cap - and - trade regimes such as Europe's ambitious Emissions Trading System have been costly failures, with one study suggesting the E.T.S. had «limited benefits and embarrassing consequences» in terms of emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280Emissions Trading System have been costly failures, with one study suggesting the E.T.S. had «limited benefits and embarrassing consequences» in terms of emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280 billion.

If the cap upon which the trading regime is based does not constitute a level of carbon reduction consistent with the nation's duty to reduce emissions, the entire cap and trade regime is unjust.

• 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.

If forest carbon trading proposals are accepted, it would create the climate regime's largest loophole by allowing rich countries to buy their way out of emission reductions.»

I don't understand why an emissions trading scheme would be better than a logically applied carbob tax or why it would be more flexible and more useful than a carbon tax regime combined with other targeted measures.

Burden - sharing frameworks — several of which are reviewed in this report — can assist in determining the allocation of each country's share of emissions reductions, as well as the allocation of permits under a global cap - and - trade regime.»

These are: Implement a «carbon tax» (or make polluters pay); impose really tough emission standards; create a secure global trade regime in low carbon fuels; develop ways of financing the transfer of the best available technology for creating and, more importantly, saving energy; and require governments to invest in research and early - stage innovation.

In addition they agreed on the merits of devising a US - wide carbon emission «cap and trade» regime.

State - SIde Effects of Pushing C02 Permit Limits Not So Good Either Making regulating C02 emissions on industry permits a top, early Obama Administration priority - especially putting it in front of a cap and trade regime - will have the unintended consequence of keeping many in industry from supporting a shared climate action vision.

I no longer believe that a complicated carbon trading regime — in which industries trade emissions «credits» — would work within the United States... So much is at stake for so many industries that the legislative process to create it would be easily distorted by their various lobbies.

Linkage among emissions trading systems — and among the disparate mitigation systems that will be characteristic of the new Paris regime