Sentences with phrase «regional carbon trading markets»

China has taken note, and almost certainly will incorporate price floors into its various regional carbon trading markets.

This nascent program aims to establish a regional carbon trading market similar to RGGI.

Not exact matches

Warsaw (Reuters)- Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

The trading of any commodity — whether wheat, pork bellies or renewable energy credits — is essentially the same, but it helps to have an understanding of the reality behind the abstract: the color - coded blinking numbers on a broker's multiple computer screens that reflect current prices in a spread of different regional carbon markets, like the European Carbon Exchange.

Governments want to launch a platform at United Nations climate talks to help set common standards and accounting rules and tie together national and regional emissions trading schemes, but developing countries and green groups warned that talk of a global carbon market is premature.

«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.

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She and many other legal experts believe that under the Clean Air Act, the EPA can also administer a national cap - and - trade program by writing federal rules to unify independent regional carbon markets.

If the primary policy instrument employed in the state and regional policies is cap - and - trade, then the respective carbon markets can be linked.

For example, many countries have stated they can and will do more, if they have access to bilateral, regional, or international carbon markets — also known as emissions trading or «cap - and - trade.»

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