Sentences with phrase «emissions trading scheme]»

The headline figure hides large national variations and several countries will not meet their national target without emissions trading, or credits purchased from certified emission reduction projects in developing countries under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

Forestry management firm PF Olsen has put up for sale a portfolio of eight forests, of which several have opted into the New Zealand emissions trading scheme.

Here are links to our Coaltiion's submissions to the New Zealand Parliament Select Committee considering the Climate Change Response (Moderated Emissions Trading Scheme) Amendment Bill:

Co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute, Jones Day, International Emissions Trading Association, Georgetown Climate Center, and the DC Bar Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Section

The New Zealand emissions trading scheme (ETS) could be tuned to deliver meaningful emissions reductions, but that has not been the focus or effect to date.

The case dates back to October 2008, around the same time the European Commission introduced phase two of its EU emissions trading system (EU ETS), which was designed to combat climate change by reducing greenhouse gases.

A special Select Committee of the New Zealand Parliament set up to review emissions trading has just tabled its report, commencing with Recommendation No 1: «We recommend that the IPCC assessment, its projections, and the findings of the Fourth Assessment Report, which rep...

Massachusetts belongs to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), the first and only mandatory carbon emissions trading scheme in America.

Emissions trading beyond Europe: Linking schemes in a post-Kyoto world, Energy Economics, 30: 2028.

The European Parliament's environment committee has nominated Julie Girling from conservative group ECR to lead talks on aviation's role in the EU's Emissions Trading System.

64 international jurisdictions already have carbon taxes or emissions trading systems — covering 13 % of global GHG emissions.

In addition we examine how linking affects the structure of emissions trading systems and decision - making.

19 March 2014, Brussels — Today, the Environment and Public Health Committee (ENVI) in the European Parliament voted against a deal that would have extended the derogation for intercontinental flights from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

Ten years ago on Saturday Prime Minister John Howard announced the Coalition government would investigate an emissions trading scheme to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The carbon tax legislation had been introduced into Parliament in March, paving the way for a subsequent emissions trading scheme.

The event is con - sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute, Jones Day, International Emissions Trading Association, Georgetown Climate Center and the DC Bar Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Section.

Edahiro says for Japan to achieve this, almost all new and existing equipment will have to be highly efficient, and Japan will have to reduce its economic activity by setting a price for carbon, either through a carbon tax or emissions trading.

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.

New Zealand on Tuesday established its Interim Climate Change Committee, which will explore whether and how to bring agriculture into the nation's emissions trading scheme.

Platts interviews David Hone, chief climate change advisor with Shell and chairman of the International Emissions Trading Association, on the outlook for EU carbon market regulation and long - term reform.

Recent data by the European Commission reveals for the first time the choice of offsets used by airlines during the first compliance period in the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

That's bullshit of course - the specific policies would be a carbon tax, emissions trading, renewable subsidies, etc..

10:30 a.m. Panel II: Scenarios and implications: the impact of potential outcomes David Hunter, US Director, International Emissions Trading Association (moderator) Rob Brenner, Senior Fellow, Nicholas Institute, Duke University; Former EPA Director of the Office of Policy Analysis and Review at the Office of Air and Radiation (invited) William Brownell, Partner, Hunton and Williams Megan Ceronsky, Attorney, Environmental Defense Fund Kyle Danish, Member, Van Ness Feldman

Blyth, W. ja Bosi, M. (2004), Linking Non-EU Domestic Emissions Trading Schemes With EU Emissions Trading Scheme, International Energy Agency.

Support for carbon taxation or emissions trading as standalone policies both fell relative to five years ago.

In Europe, CO2 emissions from industries regulated by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) increased in 2010 by 3 %, which is substantially lower than the rebound in output, after an exceptional decline of CO2 emissions of 11.8 % in 2009.

California and Quebec held their first joint auction last month, cementing the year - old linkage between the two states» emissions trading programs.

A decade in, the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme has proven only weakly effective.

New Zealand last month chose to align climate efforts with the largest emitters such as U.S. and China by taking its pledge under the United Nations Convention Framework, after passing changes to its emissions trading scheme that critics including the Green Party said weakened its obligations.

Set up in 2005, the EU ETS is the world's first and biggest international emissions trading system, accounting for over three - quarters of international carbon trading.

Sulfur Dioxide, SO2, Acid Rain, Air Pollution Emissions Trading, Pollution Abatement, Clean Air Act, Cap and Trade

The EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) is a cornerstone of the EU's policy to combat climate change and its key tool for reducing greenhouse gas emissions cost - effectively.

So a carbon tax and an emissions trading system differ in a fundamental way: under a carbon tax the price of carbon emissions is fixed by the government and the amount of emissions varies; under an emissions trading system the amount of emissions is fixed by the government and the price varies.

Linking other national or regional cap - and - trade emissions trading systems to the EU ETS can create a bigger market, potentially lowering the aggregate cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Ironically, once the George W. Bush administration officially pulled the United States out of the Kyoto Protocol process, it was the European Union that implemented the world's first CO2 emissions trading program, the European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

In no sense can an emissions trading system be called a carbon tax.

Michelle Grattan in The Age noted that «the biggest concessions are the brown ones» and said that «Kevin Rudd has stitched key groups in behind a revised emissions trading deal — both browner and greener than before — to put maximum pressure on Malcolm Turnbull.»

Now, many markets are preparing for the introduction of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions trading.

The Most Ineffective and Expensive Way to Address Potential Global Warming The European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme is proving horrendously expensive and unpopular, but is actually doing little to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The EU ETS is also inspiring the development of emissions trading in other countries and regions.

We develop a framework to analyze the economic implications and emissions market outcomes of linking emissions trading systems with different features, including stringency, and apply it to the potential linking of the California and RGGI trading programs.

European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

The aim of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is to help EU Member States achieve their commitments to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions in a cost - effective way.

The result is similar to the «NZ should scrap the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)» question in Family First's survey.

The EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) for carbon dioxide (CO2) is the largest worldwide.

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 $ 280 billion.

This sets in train a process that could potentially lead to a cap on the number of allowances dealt on the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) aligned with the objective of keeping global warming «well below 2C».

(Of course, the largest emissions trading program in the world is now the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), a greenhouse - gas, cap - and - trade system that was implemented in 2005 and whose design was influenced by the U.S. SO2 program.)

However, worried about the verifiability and permanency of carbon dioxide stored in trees, the European Union does not allow credits generated that way to be traded in its emissions trading scheme.

«A lot of people would rather do emissions trading systems, but we believe that carbon taxation would be a lot better,» she said.