The politics of the ozone issue were transformed by the presence of CFC substitutes, and political
success of acid rain cap - and - trade was enabled by the cost certainty ceiling of scrubbing technologies.
Not exact matches
As a program under the Clean Air Act, the cap - and - trade system achieved enormous
success in ridding the air
of acid rain.
Then after scientists like Hansen started projecting some very large effects
of business as usual, mitigation policies started getting talked about, following on international mitigation
successes with
acid rain and ozone.
The most powerful lesson from the talks to solve
acid rain is that, for any hope
of success, addressing environmental issues must be linked with larger foreign...