Sentences with phrase «trading scheme passed»

In view of these conditions, going to the Coalition first was merely sensible, if the goal was to get some kind of emissions trading scheme passed.

Not exact matches

It will see the UK pass on information about its experiences in the EU emissions trading scheme to California, which is the seventh largest economy in the world and the 12th largest emitter of carbon dioxide.

Carbon trading, China's version of a U.S. national cap - and - trade scheme that Congress failed to pass in 2009, is designed to evolve into a system that puts a price on greenhouse gases.

Secondly, US politics is already showing small signs of change - for example, the McCain - Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act almost passed in the Senate, and California and some eastern states are moving forward with state policies for energy efficiency and cap - and - trade schemes.

New Zealand last month chose to align climate efforts with the largest emitters such as U.S. and China by taking its pledge under the United Nations Convention Framework, after passing changes to its emissions trading scheme that critics including the Green Party said weakened its obligations.

Why is it that the same companies / transnational corporations that are polluting the earth with their imported useless crap products, designed with a limited service use and all the byproducts that go along with, shipped all over the globe before it ends up in the hands of the end user, are also the same ones who get to take a seat at tables like COP15 / 16, and are allowed to pass off bogus data as fact, as pretext for a global carbon tax and trading scheme?

The American Clean Energy and Security Act, if passed, would have established a broad cap - and - trade scheme and required cuts in carbon dioxide emissions across the board.

At this moment, our national economy is under threat by carbon regulation schemes on three fronts: The Copenhagen conference designed to create a world carbon regulatory authority which could undermine our sovereignty; The cap and trade bill thatâ $ ™ s been passed by the House of Representatives and now awaits Senate approval; and the Obama Administrationâ $ ™ s decision that it can regulate carbon dioxide via the EPA even without approval by Congress.

Stopping in Brussels on a European speaking tour, Dennis Leaf, a senior adviser at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), sought to ease European fears that the US will not be ready to sign up to a successor to the Kyoto Protocol if the Senate does not pass domestic climate legislation, including a cap - and - trade scheme, ahead of Copenhagen.

The Australian Government's carbon tax was barely passed by its parliament, and California has just implemented an emissions - trading scheme.

It blows my mind that Leftists, who you would think would be the last people to trust a financial market trading scheme, are giving cap - and - trade such a free pass.