Sentences with phrase «implement emissions caps»

Is that the Mexican delegation — having just announced it would implement emissions caps — consulting with the European Union?

More recently, a court struck down his executive order to implement an emission cap (Climatewire, Dec. 20, 2017).

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Yet plans to tackle automobile emissions remain in their infancy outside California, which has implemented an economywide cap - and - trade program and a host of policies aimed at curbing carbon from cars and trucks.

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.»

Specifically, I will implement a market - based cap - and - trade system to reduce carbon emissions by the amount scientists say is necessary: 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.

European Union policy makers for the past decade have emphasized the need to implement a regulatory regime to put a global cap on emissions and to enable wealthy countries to finance ways of cutting carbon in the developing world.

California and Oregon, on the other hand, have implemented mandatory emission caps, but in a way that incorporates elements from long - standing voluntary programs.

Implementing border adjustments for an economywide carbon tax or cap - and - trade program would require determining the GHG emissions embodied in imports (that is, the amount of greenhouse gases emitted in producing each imported good and service), which would be extremely difficult if applied to most imports (but not if applied only to imports of fossil fuels).

On January 1 2005 the European Union will implement a cap - and - trade emissions reduction program.

(Of course, the largest emissions trading program in the world is now the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), a greenhouse - gas, cap - and - trade system that was implemented in 2005 and whose design was influenced by the U.S. SO2 emissions trading program in the world is now the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), a greenhouse - gas, cap - and - trade system that was implemented in 2005 and whose design was influenced by the U.S. SO2 Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), a greenhouse - gas, cap - and - trade system that was implemented in 2005 and whose design was influenced by the U.S. SO2 program.)

In the 1980s, tradable - permit systems were used to accomplish the phasedown of lead in gasoline -(at a savings of about $ 250 million per year), and to facilitate the phaseout of ozone - depleting chloroflourocarbons (CFCs); and in the 1990's, tradable permits were used to implement stricter air pollution controls in the Los Angeles metropolitan region, and — most important of all — a cap - and - trade system was adopted to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions and consequent acid rain by 50 percent under the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 (saving about $ 1 billion per year in abatement costs).

(Sec. 335) Amends the CAA to prohibit states from implementing a cap and trade program that covers any capped emissions emitted during 2012 - 2017.

«Notwithstanding section 116, no State or political subdivision thereof shall implement or enforce a cap and trade program that covers any capped emissions emitted during the years 2012 through 2017.

In other words, not only does Germany already have a far more aggressive emissions reduction goal than most other developed nations, but it's also part of the EU, which has implemented a serious system to cap carbon emissions.

The EU has long led the way on carbon emissions, implementing a cap and trade system in 2005, having set ambitious emissions reductions targets, having per person emissions that are less than half of those in the USA, Canada, and Australia, and which in general has been the global model on climate policy.

In fact, Germany has the benefit of the European Union (EU) carbon emissions trading program — a type of system which the aforementioned countries have thus far failed to implement, but which caps the EU's total emissions:

Since these conservatives have successfully blocked attempts to implement a cap and trade or other carbon pricing system, we are left with government regulation (via the EPA and its endangerment finding) as the only alternative to reduce GHG emissions from large emitters.

Ten northeastern states in the USA (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont) implemented a carbon cap and trade system which will reduce their CO2 emissions from the power sector by 10 % by 2018 in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).

Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer withdrew her state yesterday from the Western Climate Initiative, a group of seven states and four Canadian provinces that had agreed to implement a «cap and trade» system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Chinese are implementing a cap - and - trade system in their country to reduce emissions,» said Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist at Texas A&M University.

And we now live in a new reality where China has pledged to peak its emissions, to bring online a gigawatt of clean energy every week through 2030, to implement a national cap and trade plan, and to provide billions of dollars in climate finance to poorer nations.

The annual emissions tallies from the JRC will become increasingly important in the coming years, as countries move toward implementing and verifying the main goal of the Paris Agreement: to cap global warming at less than two degrees Celsius.

He hopes to craft a bill that will revive stalled efforts to implement a cap - and - trade carbon tax and reduce emissions from so - called greenhouse gases.

Third, experience with efforts to limit SO2 emissions indicates that the cap and trade approach has greatly reduced the costs of implementing control measures.

The State also recently implemented a «cap - and - reduce» program, similar to «cap - and - trade» systems adopted in other states such as California, which put a cap on carbon pollution and required major sources — including the makers of transportation fuels — to reduce those emissions by a set rate annually.

To help meet that goal, California is implementing numerous measures, including standards for renewable energy, a policy to scale up the use of clean fuels, requirements and incentives to increase the use of electric vehicles, and a flexible market - based cap on carbon emissions that creates economic incentives for major carbon polluters to cut their emissions.

Based upon it's conclusions, governments have implemented expensive carbon taxes and new overbearing regulations designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, cap and trade schemes, a phased - in ban on incandescent light bulbs, the forced relocation of whole populations of people to make room for carbon credit producing plantations and numerous other far reaching and expensive initiatives.

In California, for example, an economy - wide cap - and - trade system is being implemented that will ultimately cover all fossil fuel - derived CO2 emissions.

It's been nearly a year since Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced an ambitious set of policies to cap oil sands emissions, phase out coal - fired power generation and implement an economy - wide carbon tax in Canada's «dirty» province.

Starting in 2012, the agency implemented a statewide cap - and - trade system that imposed a ceiling on greenhouse - gas emissions across key sectors and then distributed a fixed number of tradable pollution permits to businesses.

Yesterday, the Alberta government released a plan with three main areas of focus: phasing out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030; implementing the carbon tax in two phases; and capping oilsands emissions at 100 megatonnes.