Sentences with phrase «national cap»

The expectations for national cap rates were slightly more bearish.

Such strategies have been overlooked because global cap and trade is assumed to share the desirable properties of national cap and trade.

National caps ignore it an may even make it worse.

... We view national caps as an inherently divisive negotiating goal, so we do not condemn the players as do environmentalists.

This cooperative force is almost entirely missing from national cap negotiations.

The Democratic presidential candidate from Illinois called for a mandatory national cap on carbon emissions, as well as an investment of $ 150 billion over 10 years to develop new energy resources, in order to reduce the country's appetite for foreign oil by 35 percent by 2030.

I was impressed with the information that National Cap Rates supplied me when other resources failed to track the asset type or market that I was researching.

The Spaniard will hope to secure his first national cap and certainly deserves international recognition following a season that has seen the talented forward score 21 goals in all competitions.

A savvy midfielder, Malatinsky also earned national caps, first for Slovakia then, after 1945, for Czechoslovakia.

Republican gains in the U.S. Congress suggest climate change and energy will not be addressed in the next two years, and a voluntary national cap - and - trade market for companies, known as the Chicago Climate Exchange, will expire at the end of this year.

But a fixed national cap would be better once China's emissions peak, which could happen in the 2020s or 2030s.

Carbon trading, China's version of a U.S. national cap - and - trade scheme that Congress failed to pass in 2009, is designed to evolve into a system that puts a price on greenhouse gases.

International cap - and - trade is a crazy game, and it is nothing like national cap - and - trade, where the government set the caps.

We are probably all familiar with a pretty recent example: the proposed national cap - and - trade legislation defeated in the Senate in the summer of 2010, which, according to its advocates, would have increased consumers» energy costs by about the cost of one postage stamp per day.

The Kyoto negotiations proved it is next to impossible to find a focal point for agreement on a formula for national caps.

Immigration experts are warning companies to expect long delays in obtaining visas for skilled workers from outside Europe after a national cap on...

In September 2009, when he was environment minister, Jim Prentice met with representatives from the Alberta government to discuss a national cap - and - trade program.

Not that am complaining but surely Coquelin's form last season and this season so far warrant a national cap, no?

Rather than competing for a national cap..

Replacing a national cap with a nationally set limit is hardly a step forward.

In «Enough Hot Air Already» [Perspectives], the editors say that because our legislators avoid carbon taxes as political suicide, we should adopt a national cap - and - trade market as an alternative.

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.

China has not yet set a national cap on its greenhouse gas emissions, citing the need to grow its economy.

Xi's China, by contrast, plans to implement a national cap - and - trade system to reduce CO2 pollution this year.

After the gloom that followed the failure, in Obama's first term, to pass a national cap - and - trade scheme to cut emissions, the new mood of optimism may seem surprising.

The state's move fuels one of the fiercer debates bubbling over about using a national cap and trade: that is, what's the most responsible way to spend all the money it'd make?

Then, if we make a national cap and trade system that makes the right to emit carbon tradeable and apportions it on a per capita population basis, and if nations are given tradeable emissions credits for their carbon sinks, we will have an equitable international system that doesn't discriminate between countries and provides tools to help the third world control its carbon emissions and preserve its forests.

And, there's an interesting twist in this auction — speculators who believe that a national cap and trade will pass soon, might be inclined to buy extra permits, under the assumption that they'll be more expensive under a nationwide system like the one Obama is pushing.

She and many other legal experts believe that under the Clean Air Act, the EPA can also administer a national cap - and - trade program by writing federal rules to unify independent regional carbon markets.

Though the United States has (at best) sat on its hands and (at worst) actively hindered constructive action to combat climate change for the past eight years, with the changing of the guard coming (not soon enough), the next president can jump start action on climate change by employing the well established Clean Air Act to unify state carbon projects and administer a national cap - and - trade program.

The country will also launch a national cap and trade program in 2017.

Senator Barack Obama's energy plan includes imposing a national cap on carbon emissions, investing $ 150 billion over 10 years to develop new energy sources and reducing dependence on foreign oil by 35 percent by 2030, The New York Times reports.

China's announcement last month that it will begin implementing a national cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas emissions in 2017 is welcome news.

More harmonisation has been agreed in many areas, including with respect to the cap - setting (an EU - wide cap instead of the national caps in phases 1 and 2) and the rules for transitional free allocation.

If he was elected, the government would set a national cap on carbon emissions, which by 2050 would be reduced to 80 percent below the levels in 1990.

And President Barack Obama has called for a national cap - and - trade system that would set greenhouse - gas emission limits for many businesses and require those that exceeded them to buy allowances from others that haven't (see Chu's Wish List: Cap - and - Trade and Cheaper Solar).

A national cap - and - trade system — which is needed to address emissions meaningfully and cost - effectively — will undo the effects of a more stringent cap within any state or group of states.

Price signals provided by a national cap - and - trade system are necessary to meaningfully address climate change at sensible cost, but such price signals are not sufficient.

For China, this includes a national cap - and - trade program to be launched in 2017 to cut power sector and industrial carbon emissions; green power dispatch to prioritize renewable energy; vehicle efficiency standards, building efficiency standards; increasing its forest stock; and limits on HFCs use.

During failed attempts to impose a national cap - and - trade scheme, the talk was of expensive overseas gas being imported to help limit emissions.

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.

Chief executive Ken Lewis has also called for a national cap - and - trade policy at the 2008 Emerging Issues Forum.

China is going to set a national cap - and - trade carbon market in 2017, allowing the trade of carbon credits earned from renewable energy projects to help emitters comply their obligations.

Another partial answer could be linkage mechanisms in cap - and - trade systems whereby greenhouse gas reductions implemented outside a nation's borders can be credited in its national cap - and - trade compliance system.

So a national cap / tax could more easily apply to the upstream sources of the entire economy, compared to a state level or city level cap / tax.

(This did not stop the Republican Party from misrepresenting — and ultimately derailing — U.S. President Obama's 2009 effort to launch a national cap and trade system there as a «cap and tax,» but the point stands.)

Senator John Kerry, the nominee for next Secretary of State, tried but failed to introduce a national cap and trade system in 2010 after failing to win sufficient backing from Republicans.