Sentences with phrase «pilot emissions trading scheme»

He has played a key role in helping to design the UKs pilot emissions trading scheme and in developing key aspects of the EU ETS.

In China, the government is also getting serious — revealing more details about its pilot emissions trading scheme, canvassing a flat carbon tax on certain industries, and also announcing that it would impose emission caps on certain provinces and cities, including the powerhouse economy of Guangdong, and the key commercial hubs of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen, in preparation for the ETS.

China says it has encouraged a domestic renewable energy industry and is now planning a pilot emissions trading scheme.

Heavy pollution from coal power stations is forcing officials to consider alternative forms of energy — and raising the stakes for the country's seven pilot emission trading schemes, the first of which launched in Shenzhen on June 18.

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.

Not exact matches

The emissions trading pilot projects in China can learn from the EU's mistakes in order to establish a successful countrywide scheme.

«We are considering expanding the existing pilot programs into surrounding areas and link up those regional carbon markets; if that fails, the central government will then design a nationwide emissions trading scheme and allocate allowances to each region,» said Xu, the government official involved in the national carbon market buildup.

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).

China has also commenced the first of seven pilot emissions - trading schemes; it plans to implement a full national scheme by 2015.

The City of Shenzhen was the first of seven Chinese pilot cities to launch an emissions trading scheme (ETS), allowing companies to trade carbon emissions.

Seven Provinces and Municipalities (Beijing, Chongqing, Guangdong, Hubei, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Tianjin) are developing pilot emissions trading systems, due to begin in 2013, the experiences of which will inform the design of a national scheme before 2020.