Sentences with phrase «specific emissions caps»

The simplicity of a single carbon price compared to country - specific emissions caps is an important but elusive point.

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Most recently, California approved a measure to cut greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels within 15 years, and Washington State placed a cap on emissions from specific industries.

We will cap emissions according to specific goals, measuring progress by reference to past carbon emissions.

And, with the latest McKinsey report, it becomes even more clear that, if we want to substantially reduce emissions, we will either need a carbon tax, a cap - and - trade approach, or a whole bunch of specific individual regulations aimed at encouraging and prompting the many individual emission reduction opportunities.

[1] The resulting proposal was a market - based cap and trade approach which intended to legislate power plant emissions caps without specifying the specific methods used to reach those caps.

Probably the biggest grievance environmental justice advocates had with AB 398, according to Bill Magavern, policy director of the Coalition for Clean Air, is a specific provision that prohibits California's Air Resources Board and local air districts from directly regulating carbon emissions by sources that are also subject to the state's cap - and - trade program.

What it likely refers to are sector specific energy efficiency standards, not hard carbon emission caps.

The term «comprehensive» can be seen as an indirect reference to an emissions cap, but there was no specific reference to it, much less a veto threat.

The specific actions that I opposed in my essay were: (1) a cap - and - trade system for carbon emissions, (2) a carbon tax, and (3) $ 5 trillion of U.S. government spending between now and 2100 on technology designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

In May 2016, the courts found that Massachusetts law unambiguously directs the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to set sector - specific, declining emissions caps which lead to an aggregate 25 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

For instance, in the run - up to the recent High - Level Meeting co-hosted with the UN in Beijing on technology transfer, there were rumours of the Chinese government accepting emission caps or targets in specific sectors.

Under one such arrangement, the Kyoto Protocol, which runs through 2012, signatories agree to cap specific emissions.

The specific pattern of changes, revealed in objects ranging from ship logs to ice caps to tree rings, closely matched the predicted effects of greenhouse gas emissions.

â $ ¨ â $ ¨ A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80 % by 2050.