Sentences with phrase «proposed emissions trading system»

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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).

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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?