Sentences with phrase «gas emissions trading»

As a member of CCX, the greenhouse gas emissions trading organization often called a «cap - and - trade» system, ProLogis is required to track and reduce annual corporate greenhouse gas emissions.

The Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations 2012 give effect to the EU Directive on emissions trading schemes and are, inevitably, very detailed.

Advising Ibstock Brick Ltd on the first and only regulatory appeal under the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme in Northern Ireland.

Conducting regulatory appeals and tribunal proceedings including the first appeal under the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme Regulations in Northern Ireland and an appeal to the UK Secretary of State against the publication of commercially sensitive information on public registers.

Advising a multinational building products manufacturer on the first and only regulatory appeal under the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Scheme before the PAC in Northern Ireland.

UNCTAD (1998), Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: Defining the Principles, Modalities, Rules and Guidelines for Verification, Reporting and Accountability, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva.

Zhang, Z.X. (1998), Towards a Successful International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading, Presented at the Seminar Organised by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, A Side Event of the Eighth Sessions of the Subsidiary Bodies of the UNFCCC, June 8, Bonn.

This article examines whether a greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme has the potential to bring parties into conflict with the WTO provisions in dealing with the initial allocation of permits, non-compliance with emissions targets, emissions trading system enlargement, and trade measures against non-members of an emissions trading club, and relates the discussion to joint implementation with developing countries.

Werksman, J., 2001: Greenhouse gas emissions trading and the WTO: 153.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading and Project - Based Mechanisms, Proceedings of OECD Global Forum on Sustainable Development: Emissions Trading, OECD, Paris.

«There is a great opportunity for the private sector to invest in a low carbon future for Africa, using market forces to bring innovative technologies so that the continent can develop in a sustainable way,» said Dirk Forrister, the President and CEO of International Emissions Trading Association, a business organization focused on greenhouse gas emissions trading.

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

Zhang, Z.X. (1998), Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading and the World Trading System, Journal of World Trade, Vol.

Jeong spent eight years working for SK Energy co., LTD. in Seoul, where she managed a number of projects including the establishment of a greenhouse gas inventory system and South Korea's first internal greenhouse gas emission trading system, among other things.

In November 2011, WCI transitioned into WCI, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that provides administrative and technical assistance to support the implementation of state and provincial greenhouse gas emission trading programs.

Not exact matches

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality will begin presenting its draft greenhouse gas program next week to the state's pollution board for approval to create the state's first cap - and - trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

Analysts say high use of UN offsets in EU emissions trading scheme suggests industrial gas credits are being ditched before 2013 cut off point

Nine Mid-Atlantic and New England states have agreed to cut power plant greenhouse gas emissions across the region by 65 percent by 2030 through the nation's first cap - and - trade program to reduce carbon contributing to global climate change.

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Environmental protections: Cuomo called for Northeast and eastern states that are part of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap - and - trade program, to further reduce emissions.

He voted in favor of the stimulus but against a «cap and trade» bill aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The groups support using 5 percent of valuable greenhouse gas emission allowances under the bill's cap - and - trade system to prevent tropical deforestation and reduce international forest emissions.

Lamatogne is pushing to follow New Jersey's lead and pull New Hampshire out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap - and - trade program limiting utility emissions in New England states, New York, Delaware and Maryland.

Seven pilot regions in the world's most polluting nation will launch markets to cap - and - trade greenhouse gas emissions

Since the Kyoto protocol came into force in 2005, companies in the developing world can generate greenhouse gas emission reductions and sell them as «carbon credits» in the developed world through such mechanisms as the European Union's Environmental Trading Scheme (EU ETS), which is similar to schemes in Japan and New Zealand.

Four out of seven Chinese pilot regions — Shanghai, Guangdong, Tianjin and Hubei — have issued their versions of cap - and - trade plans for greenhouse gas emissions.

At the same time, shipping activity is expected to increase with global trade and continue to produce harmful air emissions and greenhouse gases.

Close examination of the Galileo Movement's arguments shows that the effort is recycling many of the same straw man arguments and distortions about the science that other groups have previously employed to scuttle a cap - and - trade bill in the U.S. Congress last year, a stricter emissions trading scheme in New Zealand three years ago and other regional and national efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Bulletin acknowledges that the increased use of carbon - free nuclear energy could help mitigate global warming brought on by fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions but concludes that the possibility of misusing enriched uranium and separated plutonium to create bombs is a «terrible trade - off» for trying to control climate change.

It includes a nationwide cap - and - trade system to cut greenhouse gas emissions, along with a renewable power mandate and a suite of other energy measures.

The state has long led the U.S. in environmental regulations, from high vehicle - emissions standards to a greenhouse gas cap - and - trade program — and it has done so without sacrificing its economy.

McConnaha said the study would draw on existing research that has informed existing cap - and - trade programs, including California's, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the Northeast and the European Union's Emissions Trading System.

While a bill to actually implement a cap - and - trade system eluded state lawmakers in the legislative session that ended in March, they did direct the state Department of Environmental Quality to study «a market - based approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.»

Now it warns that control of greenhouse gas emissions «would create a competitive advantage for our international trading partners at the expense of US jobs».

Called the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the group seeks to cut current emissions by 10 percent by 2019 through a cap - and - trade system.

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

And although it may prepare them for any federal program — both presidential candidates support a national cap - and - trade program for greenhouse gas emissions — it may also end up driving electricity production outside the region higher.

The scheme, which allows European companies to trade their emissions of carbon greenhouse gases, was designed as a cost - effective, economically liberal solution to global warming.

Already, New Mexico will attempt to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from energy use in the state by 2 percent per year, and 11 northeastern states have formed a regional cap - and - trade program.

The result is an overall emissions decline with the lowest overall economic impact, at least in theory, though some economists and other experts argue that such trade in greenhouse gases amounts to «voodoo economics» — the benefits of the trading never trickle down to the actual pollution control.

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.

By allowing companies and institutions to trade emissions, carbon markets ensure that greenhouse gas emissions are cut in a cost - effective way.

This is possibly the newest market in the world, a would - be global attempt to create a trade in the greenhouse gas emissions from any nation's fleet of cars, household refrigerators, electric power plants, factories, even farms.

China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is betting on carbon trading as a key measure to cut its emissions for each unit of economic output 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.

A strong energy package approved last year by a key Senate panel is seen as a sweetener for passing a much more controversial cap - and - trade system to regulate the emissions of greenhouse gases.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a mandatory cap - and - trade carbon market encompassing 10 Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, requires electricity producers to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 10 percent by 2018.

California Gov. Jerry Brown's administration yesterday released a plan to extend the state's landmark cap - and - trade program in a bid to slash greenhouse gas emissions through midcentury.