Sentences with phrase «while emissions trading»

A carbon tax — at any level — was ranked dead last by the experts, while emissions trading did not even make the list.

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While on the stump, Obama promised to establish a cap and trade program to reign in the carbon emissions responsible for global warming.

Creating an innovative new fiscal package to continue cutting carbon pollution by gradually increasing and expanding B.C.'s carbon tax, while creating targeted support for emissions - intensive trade - exposed industries and vulnerable citizens.

The bill aims to ameliorate these effects by allowing emitting plants to continue for a while by buying permits or allowances from other producers whose emissions are below their allowances — hence «cap and trade.»

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

In a November 2000 exchange, Clinton told Blair that while U.S. Republicans agreed that climate change was «a real problem,» they would be unlikely to accept any international agreement that wouldn't allow a major role for market - based emissions trading.

While still not included in the upcoming system, hundreds of facilities in Guangdong and Shanghai are being required to monitor and report their emissions, a move designed to prepare them for serious trading.

In their comments, activists said that while H.B. 2004 requires «unit - specific» standards for coal plants, that does not prohibit carbon emissions trading.

While a bill to actually implement a cap - and - trade system eluded state lawmakers in the legislative session that ended in March, they did direct the state Department of Environmental Quality to study «a market - based approach to controlling greenhouse gas emissions.»

The results, the authors conclude, «demonstrate the economic interdependence of Chinese provinces, while also highlighting the enormous differences in wealth, economic structure, and fuel mix that drive imbalances in interprovincial trade and the emission embodied in trade.»

While the headline figure of 40 % is already far below what is necessary both to tackle climate change and spur the green economy, it would actually amount to a mere 33 % reduction in reality, due to the failure to retire excess emissions allowances in the EU's emissions trading scheme.

Gates hammered on points reported here for many years: that without a big, and sustained, boost in spending on basic research and development on energy frontiers, the chances of triggering an energy revolution are nil; that while the private sector and venture capital investors are vital for transforming breakthroughs into marketable products or services, they will not invest in the long - haul inquiry that's required to generate game - changing breakthroughs; that a 1 or 2 percent tax on carbon - emitting fuels could generate a large, steady stream of money for invigorating the innovation pipeline; that a declining emissions cap and credit trading system --- if it could survive America's polarized politics --- would have to raise energy costs far beyond what would be politically tenable to generate a similar scale of transformational activity.

However, Australian companies can now participate in CDM and emissions trading, while companies in the US, which has not ratified the Protocol, can not.

It waxes positively about the New Zealand emissions trading scheme, while failing to note that any further extensions have been indefinitely delayed and the local price on carbon emissions is currently well south of $ 10.

On the first criterion, Weitzman points out that while a carbon tax is more easily administered and more transparent than a cap - and - trade system, a carbon cap or a tax can both achieve cost - effective emissions reductions.

Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.

China committed to establish a national emissions - trading program, while the United States announced new actions to help reduce its emissions 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

The Lieberman - Warner American Climate InSecurity Act (A-CISA) has, as its core centerpiece, a poorly structured Cap and Trade program, inadequate for achieiving required reductions in US (and Global) GreenHouse Gase (GHG) emissions while giving away $ 500 billion (and likely more) to serial polluters, making the task of reducing America's fossil - fuel addiction that much more costly -LSB-...]

Any near - term action may come in the form of energy legislation that, while helping to reduce U.S. emissions, will not achieve the levels of reduction envisioned under a cap - and - trade scenario.

The broad - brush elements are familiar: they set an initial ceiling on the amount of climate - warming emissions allowed in the industrial, electricity, transportation and other sectors, then gradually lower this ceiling over the years, while creating emission allowances that can be traded among polluting industries.

Virtually all of the activity documented in the report took place in the voluntary markets, while most media coverage of carbon trading has focused on the European Union's top - down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (Utrading has focused on the European Union's top - down Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UTrading Scheme (EU ETS) that was initiated to handle credits and offsets generated under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

The French had a point: the emission trading scheme, while it would have allowed the U.S. to sign on, was really a cop - out, since buying unused permits from Russia would mean that overall emissions to the atmosphere would not actually be reduced at all.

On his figures Emissions increase from about 6000 to 30000 millions tonnes (x5) while world Trade increases from $ 60bn to $ 10,000 bn (x160).

First, while a cap - and - trade system constrains the quantity of emissions, the costs of control are left uncertain (although such cost uncertainty can be limited — if not eliminated — through the use of safety valves, price collars, or related mechanisms).

While our political leaders are running around debating cap and trade, emissions treaties, fracking, or worse yet just ignoring the fossil fuel problem, Amory Lovins and his dedicated gang at the Rocky Mountain Institute have quietly put together the manifesto for achieving the era of sustainable energy.

The SCE proposal provides continued support for the state's market - based, cap - and - trade program as a critical component of efforts to reduce GHG emissions, while striving to keep electricity affordably priced for utility customers.

It is ironic that while cap - and - trade — a sensible approach to reducing carbon dioxide emissions linked with climate change — is dead and buried in the Senate, considerable support has emerged for an approach that would be both less effective and more costly.

By taking advantage of this program, compliance entities can reduce their emissions, utilise capital reinvested from the cap and trade program and still maintain their competitiveness while reducing their costs and emissions.

Reporter, Paul Merrion appeared to find some comfort that while CCX will cease all trading of new emission allowances at the end of the year, «it will continue trading carbon offsets generated by projects that consume greenhouse gases, such as planting trees.»

The problem of course is that a price on carbon and emissions trading, while being cost effective and efficient for business, will have little if any effect on absolute greenhouse emissions.

While the EPA has provided for emissions trading programs, there will be a lot of closures of older coal plants.

Burleson is recently reported to have said that, while he «not opposed to emissions trading, per se,» he «credits the US government for inventing the cap - and - trade concept as an environmental policy» but «in areas other than aviation.»

Commenting on the release of the emissions figures, Dr Mary Kelly, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency stated, «the Emissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductionemissions figures, Dr Mary Kelly, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency stated, «the Emissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductionEmissions Trading Scheme is designed to bring about reductions in emissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductionemissions at least cost, and is seen to play an increasingly important role in assisting European industry implement the type of reductions envisaged in the EU Commission's recent decisions on an overall 20 percent reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductionemissions in the EU by 2020... While no doubt some of the reduction reflects the economic downturn which began to have significant impact during 2008, nonetheless the overall picture is one of progressive annual GHG emission reductions.»

Emissions trading will only be viable in China's electricity if its helps to solve some of the sector's existing challenges — inefficiency in overall generation, running deficits of coal generators, system reliability — while contributing to balanced economic development objectives.

I've been following discussions of solar energy on - and - off for quite a while, and it has always seemed as if it would be quite a long time, even assuming an emissions trading scheme or carbon tax, before solar photovoltaics could be a cost - competitive source of electricity without special support such as capital subsidies or feed - in tariffs set above market prices.

An internal cap and trade is a good choice for conglomerates and other corporations with diverse operations because it gives carbon - intensive business units added flexibility while reducing emissions company - wide.

It demonstrates that the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, the world's largest carbon market, has consistently failed to» cap» emissions, while the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) routinely favours environmentally ineffective and socially unjust Emissions Trading Scheme, the world's largest carbon market, has consistently failed to» cap» emissions, while the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) routinely favours environmentally ineffective and socially unjust emissions, while the UN's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) routinely favours environmentally ineffective and socially unjust projects.

Under a carbon trading scheme, a country with more carbon emissions is able to purchase the right to emit more while the country with less emissions trades the right to emit carbon to other countries.

Cap and trade fixes carbon emissions while allowing the price to fluctuate.

New technology developments as well as new policy instruments, such as emissions trading, joint implementation, and clean development mechanisms, can promote a cleaner environment, while simultaneously increasing energy efficiency and enhancing security.

Annie Leonard's Story of Cap & Trade, which we wrote about a while back, throws a critical and generally dismissive eye on the concept of a cap & trade solution for carbon emissTrade, which we wrote about a while back, throws a critical and generally dismissive eye on the concept of a cap & trade solution for carbon emisstrade solution for carbon emissions.

In analyzing the impact of the border tax adjustment enforcement mechanism, we need to consider that trade sanctions affect only goods in international trade, while much of a country's CO2 emissions come only from domestic production.

The FoE also claims that the carbon trading systems are failing to reduce emissions, while the traders who take advantage of it are getting rich off climate change — and will soon lose control as they did with subprimes.

Cap and trade could theoretically do the same thing, but while this worked well in some niche markets (like SO2 emissions), it has not worked at all in European markets for CO2.

the establishment of effective market - based trading systems for greenhouse gas emissions by businesses that are demonstrably fair, open, efficient, accountable and consistent across national boundaries; and maintaining societal equity and environmental integrity while establishing these systems.

The Institute added that while concerns have been expressed about the trading scheme's impact on European business, trading was devised in response to businesses's desire for flexibility in achieving compliance and the scheme «should be judged in light of other options for emission reduction, not the status quo».

The cap and trade provisions are even more aggressive than Obama's — the Waxman / Markey bill sees a 20 % cut in carbon emissions by 2020, while Obama's only projects a 14 % cut.

While the Kyoto treaty was a massively - flawed document, with current technologies a Kyoto type cap and trade approach is about the only way we have available to slow or halt CO2 emissions.

Cap - and - trade means a declining «cap» on total emissions, while allowing trading of pollution permits.

While this sounds like a sensible proposition, it plays into Abbott's strategy of framing Labor's emissions trading scheme and other carbon pricing measures as a «great big tax.»