Sentences with phrase «emissions trading scheme gets»

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If airlines get a large quota of emissions, the trading scheme will have little effect.

In China, the government is also getting serious — revealing more details about its pilot emissions trading scheme, canvassing a flat carbon tax on certain industries, and also announcing that it would impose emission caps on certain provinces and cities, including the powerhouse economy of Guangdong, and the key commercial hubs of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen, in preparation for the ETS.

The main argument for a carbon tax rather than a trading scheme is that, if there is a lot of uncertainty about the cost of reducing emissions, and not much uncertainty about the damage caused by climate change, a fixed price for emissions (that is, a tax) will get closer to the optimal outcome than a fixed quantity.

In view of these conditions, going to the Coalition first was merely sensible, if the goal was to get some kind of emissions trading scheme passed.

Danger of Undermining Emissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas eEmissions Mitigation Efforts If politicians are led to believe that a low - cost technological fix can reduce or eliminate the need for politically difficult actions such as increasing the cost of carbon by cap and trade schemes or taxation, going against the wishes of powerful fossil energy corporations, and getting countries all around the world to agree on climate goals, it is likely to undermine their resolve to deal with the underlying cause of the problem by reducing greenhouse gas emissionsemissions.

This is why its important to get an emissions trading scheme in place, with details that can be adjusted later, rather than to argue too much about getting the short term parts of the policy exactly right.

If you choose an emissions trading scheme such that permits trade at (roughly) $ 30 / tonne, you'll get (roughly) the same outcome, assuming that the emissions intensity of generation is initially about 1 tonne / MWh.

So if you get in the business of limiting CO2 emissions, of taxing CO2 emissions, of creating a value in CO2 emissions where people trade them in this emissions trading scheme, you go to the coal plants first because of the fact that that's the greatest source — single source — of CO2 that there is.»