Sentences with phrase «global trading scheme»

Theoretically, a global trading scheme will cut emissions far more, but since it won't start until 2020, it will have a lot of catching up to do.

But poor nations argue that more pressing issues need to be ironed out, for example the overarching dispute between rich and poor countries over how to share efforts to cut emissions, before more market - based mechanisms are developed or the groundwork for a global trading scheme is laid.

The easiest way to develop a tax narrative is via income tax increases for the very wealthy — you can easily sell this to the 51 % of voters you need more easily than the technical details about energy security, environmental discourse, science and uncertainty, precautionary principles, climate policy stabalisation assessment, green legacies, global trading schemes, UN COP frameworks ALL of which have to be defended for the policy framework to be politically feasible.

The EU's ETS, the world's largest existing carbon emissions trading scheme founded in 2005, serves as a model, for better or worse, for global trading schemes being discussed now in Copenhagen.

Not exact matches

If we are talking about international leadership, a truly «global Britain» should divert its attention towards schemes designed to enhance trade facilitation.

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.

Warsaw (Reuters)- Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

A truly strict global system, involving the majority of countries and imposing a tight cap on total emissions, would cut emissions more than the European trading scheme.

Objectors often claim unfair benefits are given to the worst polluters, and that trading schemes obfuscate from the real problem — the excess of greenhouse gas emissions that continue to perpetuate global warming.

The government is lying, trying to use global warming to limit, and tax its citizens through «cap and trade» and other tax schemes for the government's benefit.

Taken together, these initiatives to combat global warming now cover areas that include half the U.S. population, and state governments are already considering how to harmonize regional trading systems with each other, as well as with the European Union's emissions - trading scheme.

The scheme's stated objective is to «turn the global marketplace into a positive force to save the world's most valuable and threatened forests» by helping companies to produce and trade in «credibly certified» wood products.

«My current concern with the emissions trading scheme is that a religious fervour has built up around the altar of global warming.

«At present, governments» attempts to limit greenhouse - gas emissions through carbon cap - and - trade schemes and to promote renewable and sustainable energy sources are prob ¬ ably too late to arrest the inevitable trend of global warming,» the scientists write in a paper published online in the scientific journal, Nature Climate Change, on Monday, 14 October 2012.

Why is it that the same companies / transnational corporations that are polluting the earth with their imported useless crap products, designed with a limited service use and all the byproducts that go along with, shipped all over the globe before it ends up in the hands of the end user, are also the same ones who get to take a seat at tables like COP15 / 16, and are allowed to pass off bogus data as fact, as pretext for a global carbon tax and trading scheme?

It also appears he neglected to mention that no matter how it's administered, cap and trade is a glorified tax that greedy states like California will grab under the pretense of saving us all from global warming and then misuse it on other «half - assed» schemes.

Yesterday, a dispute settlement panel at the World Trade Organization released an official report finding that local content requirements in India's solar power scheme violate global trade rTrade Organization released an official report finding that local content requirements in India's solar power scheme violate global trade rtrade rules.

In the search for planet levers to address climate change, we should look for ways to significantly cut emissions that don't require grand policy solutions, such as carbon taxes or global cap - and - trade schemes, or the approval of the U.S. Congress or the United Nations.

The global carbon market will be worth $ 46 billion in 2014, up 15 % from last year, as moves by the EU will boost prices and emissions trading schemes evolve in Asia, analysts at Bloomberg New Energy Finance said in a report today.

However, the airlines highlighted their preferences over a global carbon offsetting scheme compared to alternative schemes, such as cap - and - trade schemes.

Prominent environmental campaigner, and author of Kyoto 2, how to manage the Global Greenhouse, Oliver Tickell protests of carbon trading schemes that, «Carbon fortunes are indeed being made, and many of them in the City of London, which dominates the global carbon marketplace&rGlobal Greenhouse, Oliver Tickell protests of carbon trading schemes that, «Carbon fortunes are indeed being made, and many of them in the City of London, which dominates the global carbon marketplace&rglobal carbon marketplace».

About the only people who still claim to believe in anthropogenic global warming seem to be those who have turned it into a their new belief system, the easily bullshitted ignorant, or those who stand to make big money on it via carbon trading schemes or getting grant money to study improved ways to BS the ignorant and those who are dogmatic about global warming.

The Government's intended emissions trading scheme, therefore, does not represent proper climate policy but rather constitutes a human global warming policy — which is an entirely different, and speculative, matter.

RGGI represents the first mandatory cap - and - trade scheme for global warming pollution in the U.S., but it only covers the 10 eastern seaboard states that signed on to do this: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.

Objectors often claim unfair benefits are given to the worst polluters, and that trading schemes obfuscate from the real problem — the excess of greenhouse gas emissions that continue to perpetuate global warming.

@TerjeP (say tay - a) Far be it for me to minimise your central role in preventing «a global cap and trade scheme ushering in a solar revolution», but I hadn't actually thought it was solely your fault.

Ashurst has launched a joint operation office in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ) with Chinese «best friend» firm Guantao Law Firm, making it the fourth global player to gain Chinese law capabilities via the four - year - old scheme.