Sentences with phrase «national emissions caps»

A key point to recognize is that negotiating the minimum price would be much simpler compared to negotiating a complete set of individual national emissions caps.

Not exact matches

First, Trudeau had to work with the NDP government in Alberta to twin his plan for a national price on carbon with its provincial plan and with its idea to put an emission cap on the oil sands.

There targets will be achieved through government laws imposed on industries, as well as national caps for industrial emissions commonly associated with smog and acid rain.

President Obama's plan for national standards to curb power plant emissions is based, in part, on a cap and trade type program already existence in New York.

It also stirred confusion about the governor's legal authority and what will happen to the carbon trading program, which caps utility carbon dioxide emissions in 10 Northeastern and mid-Atlantic states, at a time when national climate legislation appears dead on Capitol Hill.

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.

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.

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

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

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Indeed, it was a «cap» and a «floor» — emission reductions were held to 50 % even though the economic national benefit of additional reductions exceeded the cost by a factor of 25.

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.

An effective national climate policy must include several key elements; one effective approach would be a well - designed cap - and - trade program for carbon emissions.

The National Academy of Sciences specifically called for a carbon tax on fossil fuels or a cap - and - trade system for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, calling global warming an urgent threat.

It is rather unlikely that China's pilot carbon trading schemes will lead to an economy - wide emission cap in the near future (they might lead to sectoral national schemes first and an economy - wide cap later).

The use of cap - and - trade systems with marketable permits has been effective at the national level, ranging from restricting the catch in an Australian fishery to reducing sulfur emissions in the United States.

The availability of verified emissions data has allowed the Commission to ensure that the cap on national allocations under the second phase is set at a level that results in real emission reductions.

Linking other national or regional cap - and - trade emissions trading systems to the EU ETS can create a bigger market, potentially lowering the aggregate cost of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

C2ES is working with cities, states, and businesses to explore cap - and - trade, carbon taxes and other market - based strategies for cost - effective emissions reduction, with the ultimate aim of a national market - based climate program.

Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.

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 Solacap - 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 SolaCap - and - Trade and Cheaper Solar).

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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.

In a sharp change from its cautious approach in the past, the National Academy of Sciences on Wednesday called for taxes on carbon emissions, a cap - and - trade program for such emissions or some other strong action to curb runaway global warming.Such actions, which would increase the cost of using coal and petroleum — at least in the immediate future — are necessary because «climate change is occurring, the Earth is warming... concentrations of carbon dioxide are increasing, and there are very clear fingerprints that link [those effects] to humans,» said Pamela A. Matson of Stanford University, who chaired one of five panels organized by the academy at the request of Congress to look at the science of climate change and how the nation should respond.

Cap and trade programs to reduce emissions do not inherently provide incentives to induce the private sector to develop innovative technologies to address climate change, according to a new study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Where efforts to address climate change have for the last 20 years focused on reducing national emissions through sweeping policies, like cap and trade or carbon taxes, climate policy today has shifted decisively toward smaller bore, pragmatic policies that don't promise to eliminate the climate crisis in one fell swoop but do help us move our economy toward greater «decarbonization,» sector by sector and technology by technology.

National green leaders, who had spent the previous year insisting that progress toward capping U.S. carbon emissions would ensure the successful conclusion of a global emissions - reduction agreement in Copenhagen, pretended like they'd never suggested that the United Nation's climate change conference could ever achieve such an outcome and praised Obama for ditching the United Nations and striking out to reach an agreement — any agreement — among major emitters.

«EPA's proposal for controlling greenhouse gas emissions from about half the nation's electric power supply is a poorly disguised cap - and - tax scheme that represents energy and economic policy at its worst,» Hal Quinn, president of the National Mining Association said in a statement.

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.

Since it's ultimately all up to the big national emitters, why impose the meaningless expense of an emissions cap upon ourselves?

August 28, 2017 / 4:16 AM / 2 days ago From Reuters Reuters Staff SYDNEY (Reuters)-- Australia could adopt a clean energy target by the end of the year, heeding the call of national energy providers and scientists as a means to cut carbon emissions and cap soaring power prices.

Strong mitigation policies at the national level are currently held hostage by slow and cumbersome post-Kyoto international negotiation processes, the public policy mess left behind by Bush and Cheney, and the complex political labyrinth standing between the need to slash emissions and the legislation needed to make it happen, whether that be cap - and - trade or some other policy tool.

A cap, equal to the national emissions goal, is stipulated every year.

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.

The 18th Party Congress highlighted trading of various environmental commodities — energy savings, carbon emission rights, pollution discharge rights and water rights — all of which will have a national cap, except carbon emissions.

Instead, the public should look more to individual governments and organizations and national climate assessments (such as the one released by the Obama administration May 6) for more concrete action on controversial topics like emissions caps and geoengineering.

A new Climate Change Authority, headed by former reserve bank governor Bernie Fraser, will advise the government on the future emissions caps within the emissions trading scheme, national emissions trajectories, and many other aspects of the scheme including the role of price floor and ceiling after the initial three years.

Mr. Coutu - whose company owns 36.7 per cent of the Syncrude oil sands project - acknowledged other sectors would have to take up the slack if the oil sands have only intensity - based requirements and Ottawa imposes a national cap on emissions.

China's pilot emissions trading schemes have ignored energy and commodity fundamentals as regulatory intervention has been the chief price driver, highlighting a major challenge to turn the national cap - and - trade programme into an effective mechanism.

The oilsands are Canada's fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, but Trudeau has said that his decisions to approve the Trans Mountain project was part of a «trade off» to persuade Alberta to put a cap on the pollution from the oilsands and participate in a national climate change strategy.