Sentences with phrase «first emissions trading schemes»

Alan, more to the point NSW has led the world in innovative market - based environmental solutions, including the instalment of one of the world's first emissions trading schemes, and a new system of biodiversity credits.

NSW has led the world in innovative market - based environmental solutions, including the instalment of one of the world's first emissions trading schemes, and a new system of biodiversity credits.

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As a result, the NRDC, the EDF, the Clean Air Task Force and other groups support both a cap - and - trade scheme to limit CO2 emissions as well as subsidies for the first CCS coal - fired power plants to be built.

It is rather unlikely that China's pilot carbon trading schemes will lead to an economy - wide emission cap in the near future (they might lead to sectoral national schemes first and an economy - wide cap later).

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

China has also commenced the first of seven pilot emissions - trading schemes; it plans to implement a full national scheme by 2015.

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.

Launched in April 2010, it is the world's first urban cap - and - trade programme, requiring CO2 reductions from large commercial, government and industrial buildings through on - site energy efficiency measures or participation in the emissions trading scheme.

The City of Shenzhen was the first of seven Chinese pilot cities to launch an emissions trading scheme (ETS), allowing companies to trade carbon emissions.

Kevin Rudd laid a lot of the groundwork, but failed to call a double dissolution, which he would surely have won, when the first version of the emissions trading scheme was blocked.

Heavy pollution from coal power stations is forcing officials to consider alternative forms of energy — and raising the stakes for the country's seven pilot emission trading schemes, the first of which launched in Shenzhen on June 18.

The catalyst was the release last fall of a 54 - page economic analysis of the first mandatory carbon emissions trading scheme in America, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

We... we're... it's part of our emissions trading scheme, which means there is a price on err carbon emissions from aviation from the first... for the first time.

On the eve of President Hu Jintao's speech at the UN Climate Summit in New York last month, Times Online ran a sensationally misleading story suggesting that China would adopt a carbon emissions trading scheme that would «for the first time, place limits on the amount of greenhouse gases Chinese industries are allowed to emit.»

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.»

To our knowledge, this is the first article to analyze potential conflicts between an international emissions trading scheme and the world trade system.

And the emissions trading scheme, the EU's most prominent measure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will most likely not lead to actual emission cuts in its first trading phase, 2005 to 2007.»

«It was first suggested by Professor Garnaut to start the emissions trading scheme system with a fixed price and I believe that it's even more relevant now in the political deadlock that we're finding in Parliament.»