Sentences with phrase «past emissions cap»

There is plenty to debate, but you seem unable to look past emissions cap and trade — which has already been tried with limited success.

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We will cap emissions according to specific goals, measuring progress by reference to past carbon emissions.

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.

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) cap and trade program has helped Northeast states reduce power plant GHG emissions 40 % over the past eight years.

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.