Sentences with phrase «proposed emissions trading»

The Howard Government's proposed emissions trading scheme, to begin in 2012, will almost certainly have a very weak target, which will require much less of Australian emitters.

The proposed emissions trading scheme will be more complicated, slower to produce the desired effect, and less effective than a simple carbon tax.

Western Australian business has not warmed to the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme, with warnings that the policy could drive billions of dollars of investment offshore.

International Emissions Trading Association writes to Brussels warning that failure to clarify proposed emission trading reforms is undermining Clean Development Mechanism

Attempts the gloss over the inadequacies of the carbon sequestration efficiency focus on the cost of sequestering CO2, proposing a tax on energy useage to cover that cost, and then proposing an emissions trading scheme to make the release of CO2 and the sequestering of the same commercially fluid.

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.

Speaking at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., Clinton proposed an international «emissions trading system» that would allow companies in developing countries to buy the right to pollute from companies with cleaner technologies.

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.

Bob Carter, one of four scientists who has recently questioned the justification for the proposed Australian emissions trading scheme, says that this paper has significant consequences for public climate policy.

Some of Mr. Daly's fringe ideas have become tangible reality: He proposed that we should place an economic value on the depletion of resources; today, we have things such as the European Emission Trading Scheme, which tries to place a market price on pollution in order to reduce emissions.

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.

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.

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).

«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.»

In his presentation, Roger proposes a very different type of emissions trading program for China that has component parts that address near - term public health concerns; non-compliance problems; and an emissions market structure, designed with China's unique environmental needs in mind.

China also announced its long - awaited Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in December, although this will initially cover only the power sector rather than the eight sectors originally proposed.

The Rudd Government promised Australians that it would act on greenhouse, instead it is proposing an inadequate and deeply flawed Emissions trading scheme and a fraudulent solar credits scheme.

The South Australian independent senator Nick Xenophon has said he won't vote for the carbon tax repeal until the Coalition agrees to change Direct Action to incorporate the intensity - based emissions trading scheme proposed by Frontier Economics.

A group of ten Australian economists today slammed the Rudd government's proposed carbon emissions trading scheme, and called for a science - based policy to achieve 25 % -40 % cuts in emissions by 2020.

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.

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.

The Australian Parliament's upper - house Senate has begun debating the Rudd Labor government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009, also known as the emissions trading scheme.

Today Germanwatch, a CAN Europe member, published results of a public opinion poll which found that 73 % of Germans support an increase of the EU's 2020 emission reductions target to 30 %, which is one of the structural options proposed by the Commission to review the flagging EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

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.

RFF experts comment on proposed requirements for greenhouse gas emissions and model trading rules under the Clean Power Plan, giving ten recommendations about allowance allocation, requirements for state compliance plans, and EPA's role in implementation.

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.

Labor has released a six point climate plan, which features a proposed phased emissions trading scheme.

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.»

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.

That the European Union differs with his position is well documented: the EU has proposed in its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to require foreign airlines flying over or into European airspace to either curb or pay for their greenhouse gas eEmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) to require foreign airlines flying over or into European airspace to either curb or pay for their greenhouse gas emissionsemissions.

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.

The European Union has indicated that it intends to propose an expansion of the existing European Union emissions trading scheme to include emissions of greenhouse gases from marine vessels.

In December 1999, a commission of inquiry proposed a system for domestic emissions trading in greenhouse gases to meet the Kyoto target.

Slocum, too, worries about the potential for some states to propose ineffectual emissions trading schemes — Public Citizen also plans to submit comments asking that the EPA tighten up its compliance standards to prevent such arrangements.

This could be done with an emissions - trading scheme, or by developing the proposed «safeguard» mechanism that features in the Senate - amended version of the Emission Reduction Fund.

The government's most recent policy, the National Electricity Guarantee (NEG), is the fourth most effective response, only being proposed after an emissions trading scheme, an emissions intensity scheme and Finkel's clean energy target were sequentially rejected.

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 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.

Carbon Trading Scheme to Begin 2010 As part of the proposed emissions reductions is a carbon trading scheme, scheduled to begin in 2010, which Rudd called, «one of the largest and most important structural reforms to our economy in a generation.Trading Scheme to Begin 2010 As part of the proposed emissions reductions is a carbon trading scheme, scheduled to begin in 2010, which Rudd called, «one of the largest and most important structural reforms to our economy in a generation.trading scheme, scheduled to begin in 2010, which Rudd called, «one of the largest and most important structural reforms to our economy in a generation.»

EMISSION REDUCTIONS At the European level the EU is considering proposed amendments to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Directive (the subject of a new consultation exercise by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), a draft decision allocating among member states the responsibility for achieving emissions reductions outside the EU ETS sectors and a new Directive and communication relating to carbon capture andEmissions Trading Scheme (ETS) Directive (the subject of a new consultation exercise by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), a draft decision allocating among member states the responsibility for achieving emissions reductions outside the EU ETS sectors and a new Directive and communication relating to carbon capture andemissions reductions outside the EU ETS sectors and a new Directive and communication relating to carbon capture and storage.