Sentences with phrase «trade regime»

We seek to highlight the need for a more sustainable, equitable and socially just international trade regime.

Such a move would stir chaos in the global trading regime.

Conversely, a more restrictive trade regime could raise costs for goods, potentially decreasing consumer spending and diminishing growth.

We'll do great in a free and fair trading regime.

It emphasizes the need for a more sustainable, equitable and socially just international trade regime.

The three western provinces already operate a reasonable facsimile of what an internal free trade regime should look like with their New West Partnership, which streamlines business regulation, smoothes worker mobility across provincial borders and establishes common transportation standards.

«There is an interesting story to be told looking back through the 20th century at the drivers of wealth creation,» wrote Richard Sandor, founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, a voluntary trading regime for carbon dioxide, in the October issue of Environmental Finance, the trade magazine of emissions markets.

This range considerably exceeds the estimated $ 28 per ton carbon dioxide abatement cost of the cap - and - trade regime included in the painstakingly negotiated American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, as computed by the Congressional Budget Office.

As landholder and land managers with particular interests in the conservation and forestry estates an in Crown land more generally, Traditional Owners may be well - placed as players in a carbon emissions trading regime, for example, through carbon credited vegetation management programs.

Richard Sandor, founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, a voluntary trading regime for CO2, and a founding father of carbon markets, sold out for $ 600 million this year.

We urgently need a new trade regime which can help address global challenges and tackle problems like accelerating climate change, a broken agricultural model and loss of trust in democratic processes, rather than aggravating them.

In relation to international treaties, attorneys advise on World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, preferential trade regimes such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and bilateral investment treaties (BITs).

«In the second trading regime, the salesman offering one piece of apple would, half the time, add a free bonus piece once the disk had been handed over.

If the United States withdraws from its central role in global trade and capital flows, most analysts seem to expect a major global shift from a U.S. - dominated trading regime to one dominated by China.

Lurching from a customs union to a default WTO trading regime will wreak havoc on every link in the food supply chain.

With the Doha Round of trade negotiations stalling at the WTO for more than ten years now, the sustainability of the multilateral trading regime is being questioned as countries resort increasingly to bilateral or regional FTAs (with investment chapters) for the advancement of their economic interests.

In the case of the China, seven pilot CO2 cap - and - trade regimes at the local level are under development, while in the United States, California's ambitious AB - 32 cap - and - trade system continues to make progress, and in the northeast, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is witnessing higher allowance auction prices due to the more severe targets the RGGI states recently adopted.

Nothing in the article indicates that Shultz thinks a carbon tax should replace California's cap - and - trade regime established by AB 32.

Not tackling these issues, and not agreeing on guidance that could be used to move forward in the fine - tuning of existing regulatory frameworks, leaves the burden of interpretation and action to sub-national and national governments, and likely, to ensuing clashes within the existing and effective trade regime.

They're not to be confused with «compliance markets», which are imposed under a cap - and - trade regime like the one in California.

We also monitor proposed changes in trade laws and help our clients react proactively to the ever - shifting regulatory and statutory trade regime so that they are one step ahead on issues affecting international trade and investment.

However, many researchers and commentators have entered the debate to highlight that the demise of corporate trade deals like NAFTA (or the current neoliberal global trade regime more broadly) would not plunge the Canadian economy into chaos.

We need a fairer, more socially just and more sustainable international trade regime.

In short, while protecting those hurt by a free trade regime should remain a priority, there are policy steps that can be taken that would have a more direct effect on living standards than trade policy.

These are: Implement a «carbon tax» (or make polluters pay); impose really tough emission standards; create a secure global trade regime in low carbon fuels; develop ways of financing the transfer of the best available technology for creating and, more importantly, saving energy; and require governments to invest in research and early - stage innovation.

Thus, today there's a keener appreciation that cap - and - trade regimes such as Europe's ambitious Emissions Trading System have been costly failures, with one study suggesting the E.T.S. had «limited benefits and embarrassing consequences» in terms of emissions — at an estimated cost to consumers of some $ 280 billion.

Some economists believe a simple tax on greenhouse gas emissions makes more sense than the elaborate cap - and - trade regime for carbon dioxide envisioned by Evolution and other players in the nascent market.

There is no need to legislate fuel economy standards or subsidise conservation and low - carbon forms of energy; no need for an emissions trading regime, with all the waste and complexity and gaming that that entails (witness Europe's experience); no need to scapegoat oil companies or environmentalists; no need to mislead or pander.

I no longer believe that a complicated carbon trading regime — in which industries trade emissions «credits» — would work within the United States... So much is at stake for so many industries that the legislative process to create it would be easily distorted by their various lobbies.

First, he marshals a quote by a trio of economists from the conservative American Enterprise Institute: «Most economists believe a carbon tax (a tax on the quantity of CO2 emitted when using energy) would be a superior policy alternative to an emissions - trading regime.

They'll also tell you that, under some basic assumptions, the cost - effectiveness result holds whether you impose that price through a tax or by fixing allowable quantities of emissions, distributing the rights to emit, and making them tradeable — so - called cap - and - trade regimes.

There is also some suggestion they want to give Canadian exporters an advantage once the United States launches its own cap - and - trade regime.

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.

This is why the United States has been at the center of the global trade and capital regime, and why, as I explain in my December 6 essay, if it withdraws, the alternative is not a new system centered on China but rather the disappearance of an orderly global trade regime.

The result is a global steel sector at unviable profit levels and an influx of cheap steel in the global trading system adversely affecting companies, workers, and the global trading regime.

A year later, at the end of 2017, McKenna clarified that provinces have until the end of the year to introduce carbon - pricing schemes, whether they be carbon taxes or cap - and - trade regimes.