Sentences with phrase «proposed emissions cap»

Not exact matches

Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia will require industrial facilities generating 50,000 tonnes or more of greenhouse gas emissions per year to report emissions under its proposed cap and trade regime, although key details such as the actual caps and their effect on consumers are yet to be released.

Ensure that the tradable emission permits under Governor Pataki's proposed regional carbon cap are auctioned rather than given away with the proceeds used to mitigate negative distributional effects on low and moderate income households and to serve other economically and socially important purposes.

The RGGI program also might not actually curb emissions, because power plants are already emitting less than the proposed cap — due to take effect on January 1, 2009, and based on projections from 2005 — thanks to slower than anticipated growth in electricity generation.

Energy Both John McCain and Barack Obama have called for a cap - and - trade system to cut carbon emissions, although Obama's proposed reduction (80 percent from 1990 levels by 2050) is larger than McCain's (65 percent).

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

The EPA will convene public meetings later this week in Arlington, Virginia, and Rosemont, Illinois, to discuss proposed regulations to cap carbon dioxide emissions from powerplants.

Also, the Clean Power Plan, proposed by the EPA in June 2014, seeks to cap carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and drive investment in renewable energy.

Harvard's Rob Stavins has criticized the Post-Partisan Power proposal co-authored by Brookings, A.E.I., and Breakthrough scholars claiming we are proposing a technology - only approach, that pricing carbon is the only way to reduce emissions, and that cap and trade is still politically viable.

In his book, Lomborg proposes that a modest carbon tax could pay for all of this work at a fraction the cost of a cap on emissions of greenhouse gases, the approach pursued by Europe under the Kyoto Protocol (and rejected in the United States).

Yesterday, Senator Richard Lugar, a moderate Republican from Indiana, proposed breaking the impasse with the Lugar Practical Energy and Climate Plan, which lacks the most contentious element, an emissions cap and trading system for pollution credits.

The ancient Chinese mask - changing dance that I saw here Tuesday night (at a dinner for participants in a meeting on science and sustainable development) came to mind in considering the unraveling of news a few hours earlier of an official Chinese plan for a firm cap on emissions of carbon dioxide, hard on the heels of President Obama's proposed carbon pollution rules for existing American power plants.

As signs grew that the Senate was in no mood to set up a trading system for curbing carbon dioxide emissions, as I noted how the climate policy debate had circled back lately to the emissions - capping plan for power plants that had been proposed in the 2000 Bush campaign for the presidency, I found myself thinking about the vacuum that's persisted where President Obama should have been on this issue (if he planned to live up to his campaign commitments).

Couric: John McCain proposed legislation calling for mandatory caps on global warming gases or CO2 emissions.

«We don't really have enough time to let the system work its way out through proposed solutions like a cap and trading system for emissions.»

4 It proposed capping emissions at year 2000 levels over the period 2010 - 2016, and in subsequent years they would be reduced to 1990 levels.

In the course of this review, the idea of an emissions containment reserve (ECR) mechanism has been proposed to address a common issue confronting cap - and - trade programs worldwide: the prices for emissions allowances tend to be significantly lower than program designers anticipate in advance, making mid-course corrections necessary for it to perform as intended.

Importantly, there is an implication to the RGGI investments «success» with carbon reductions relative to the proposed 30 % reduction in the emissions cap.

In June 1989, President George H. W. Bush proposed the use of a cap - and - trade system to cut by half sulfur dioxide emissions from coal - fired power plants and consequent acid rain.

«We need to put a price on carbon to accelerate these market trends,» Gore told the Chicago Tribune, referring to a proposed federal cap - and - trade system that would penalize companies that exceeded their carbon - emission limits.

- How the EPA can claim to be cutting US coal emissions without proposing a cap on coal - exports is beyond me.

The agency will go through a comment period for its two proposed strategies: either assign a cap on emissions and allow for the trading of pollution credits or require a state to meet an average emissions rate across its electricity fleet.

Marsha Blackburn, a congressional representative from Gore's home state of Tennessee, tackled him over the issue in April during a subcommittee debate in Congress on the Obama administration's proposed cap - in - trade system for curbing emissions.

The International Chamber of Shipping (ICS) and other trade groups have proposed simply capping shipping emissions at 2008 levels, along with a 50 % efficiency improvement by 2050.

It is true that an emissions cap policy — which, in essence, is what Allen is proposing — would set a clear path to climate stability, compared to the alternative of a carbon tax.

But Rep. Henry Waxman (D) of California, who led the fight in the House to pass cap - and - trade legislation to limit greenhouse gas emissions — only to see that bill die in the Senate — declared the EPA's proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants «a breakthrough.»

A similar transition is underway internationally, with bilateral and multilateral agreements among major emitters displacing efforts to make a grand bargain to cap global emissions at the United Nations, a shift proposed by a number of critics of the 20 - year effort to cap emissions, including the two of us, over the last decade, that has only to begun to bear fruit since the collapse of international climate negotiations at Copenhagen in 2009.

Recently, House Speaker Tina Kotek proposed a compromise: Lawmakers would pass a cap on emissions now and then work through the details of the trading system in the 2019 session.

The proposed cap and trade system for carbon emission permits bears many of the same hallmarks as fiat currencies, and the same groups stand to benefit.

The proposed cap - and - invest program covering transportation fuels would help cut emissions while providing significant new resources to invest in clean transportation; the clean fuel standard would ensure that the state continues to invest in clean fuel technologies; and purchase incentives, incentives for public charging stations, curbside EV charging programs and investments in public charging stations on key highway corridors would get more electric vehicles on the road.

As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.

Starting from the next phase of the EU ETS in 2021, the European Commission has proposed to apply an annually declining cap also for aviation emissions under the EU ETS — a proposal supported by ENVI.

Whether GHG Reductions Occur Outside Proposed U.S. Caps on GHG Emissions Since issuing offset credits for reductions that occur at capped emission sources would result in double counting, the Reserve focuses on project types affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are unlikely to bEmissions Since issuing offset credits for reductions that occur at capped emission sources would result in double counting, the Reserve focuses on project types affecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are unlikely to bemissions that are unlikely to be capped.

The proposed «remedy» has been for countries to cap their emission and trade permits.

Cap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other optioCap and trade may seem like the big offer on the emission reductions table at the moment — one mention of alternatives like a straight carbon tax send many people (the average American in particular) into apoplectic fits — but Annie «The Story of Stuff» Leonard wants you to take a closer look.There are so many troubling details in how cap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other optiocap and trade is currently proposed — free permit giveaways to polluters, massive potential for bogus offsetting projects, the ever - present potential of distracting us from making real changes — that we really need to consider other options.

British Airways and Air France joined a group of other airlines and the largest airport operator in Europe to propose... a cap and trade system that would limit their own emissions?

On Tuesday, the governments of California and six other western states as well as four Canadian provinces proposed a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 using a similar cap - and - trade market — and would expand such regulations to encompass not just CO2 from power plants but also cars and trucks as well as other greenhouse gases, such as potent methane.

The RGGI program also might not actually curb emissions, because power plants are already emitting less than the proposed cap — due to take effect on January 1, 2009, and based on projections from 2005 — thanks to slower than anticipated growth in electricity generation.

Instead of regulating all sources of greenhouse gas emissions as originally proposed, lawmakers are considering placing a carbon cap initially only on utility companies.