Sentences with phrase «get emissions credits»

He listed areas where deals might be reached, including: finding ways for wealthy countries to get emissions credits by paying for the protection of forests in poorer nations; the Clean Development Mechanism, a system for encouraging other kinds of investments that cut poor - country emissions; and systems for sharing technology.

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The complaint alleges that Glaser, who's not identified by name, used his personal e-mail when he agreed in August 2013 to help Percoco get state approval for CPV to buy «emission reduction credits» in New York to help it build the New Jersey plant.

Developed countries got some of the flexibility they wanted: For instance, they can purchase emission credits from countries able to cut emissions beyond their required amount, or receive credit for emission reductions achieved through a project like a hydroelectric dam in a developing country.

The UN expects China to account for 41 % of all carbon credits issued by 2012, but a recent paper in Nature suggests that a loophole in the system has allowed investors to get rich without cutting significant amounts of emissions.

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«Look, for example, at the E.U. where, after getting all the credit for the unification of Germany and for the shift to gas in the U.K. (all of which lowered emissions), total E.U. emissions are now, once again, inching back up.

What I foresee is a lot of people getting very rich selling credits which most consumers will view as «feel good» coupons which ultimately will have very little impact on the problem of CO2 emissions.

At the end of the article we learn that by some accounts Norway indeed is already neutralizing all its emissions, it just can't get credit for some of its activities under the rules.

The issues range from resolving how much the rich North is willing to pay the poor South to boost its resilience to climate hazards to figuring out a trustworthy process for all countries to measure and get credit for domestic actions that trim emissions.

In December, the Tyndall Centre hosted a conference on «radical emissions reductions» that offered some eye - popping suggestions: Perhaps every adult in wealthy countries could get a personal «carbon budget» tracked through an electronic credit card.

The Western Climate Initiative got a critical boost in October when California approved its final cap and trade regulations which will enable the trade of emission credits by 2013.

One other disadvantage of baseline and credit is that those enterprises that happened to start with emissions well below the baseline get a windfall.

So you get the odd spectacle of Smith going before the Senate to denounce cap - and - trade — the widely endorsed idea that the Government should set a national ceiling on carbon emissions and then allow companies to buy and sell pollution credits — on populist grounds.

If Chevron, or any named Big Oil codefendant can show that the externalities of CO2 emissions are of net benefit, could they countersue entities that have suppressed CO2 emission, or benefited from CO2 emissions, & thereby place liens & seize the assets of companies selling carbon credits, or of any tangible real property associated with past ill - gotten carbon taxation & regulation?

Gale Klappa went on WISN 12 News where he discussed how he thought WE Energies should get credit from the EPA for prior emissions reductions.

This nonprofit group, created under state legislation, enlists companies to tally and register their emissions of greenhouse gases, a prelude to cutting emissions and getting credit for the change.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

Many local governments provide rebates for the purchase of solar power panels and the federal government provides tax credits if you buy solar and wind power which is considered «Green» power, so why shouldn't the government help get America off the oil standard and help reduce green house gases by promoting this low emission green car through rebates to help it be more affordable to the average and poor income people?

After getting off to a slow start — at first, European governments set the carbon caps so high that many power companies were profiting from the credits without having to cut their emissions — the trade started to balloon suspiciously late last year.

The regulation also cites ACR's voluntary offset methodology for Emissions Reductions in Rice Management Systems as an approved Early Action Quantification Methodology, providing an important on - ramp for rice producers in California and the Mid-South to get credit for their pioneering initiatives to reduce methane emissions through practice changes in water management, such as reduced flooding and altered drainagEmissions Reductions in Rice Management Systems as an approved Early Action Quantification Methodology, providing an important on - ramp for rice producers in California and the Mid-South to get credit for their pioneering initiatives to reduce methane emissions through practice changes in water management, such as reduced flooding and altered drainagemissions through practice changes in water management, such as reduced flooding and altered drainage timing.