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Emissions trading

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us: Emissions trading


  • Here are entered works on an internationally regulated, market-based "cap-and-trade" program designed to reduce the emission of polluting gases into the atmosphere by allowing participating polluting nations or companies to either reduce their total emissions or buy credits from less polluting nations or companies. Works on the practice of compensating for the carbon dioxide emissions produced by one activity or in one location, by voluntarily paying for a corresponding reduction in such emissions produced by a different activity or in a different location are entered under [Carbon offsetting.]

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  • Variants

    • us: Air--Pollution--Emissions trading
    • us: Emissions credit trading
    • us: Emissions rights trading
    • us: Marketable permits for carbon dioxide emissions
    • us: Tradeable emission permits
    • us: Trading emissions credits

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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: 92220126: Peeters, M. Marktconform milieurecht? : een rechtsverglijkende studie naar de verhandelbaarheid van vervuilingsrechten ... 1992.
    • found: IAC (Emissions credit trading)
    • found: LIV (Emissions trading)
    • found: BPI (Trading of emission rights)
    • found: International economic instruments and climate change, 1993 (Tradeable emission permits; Marketable permits for CO₂ emissions)

  • LC Classification

    • HC79.P55

  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on an internationally regulated, market-based "cap-and-trade" program designed to reduce the emission of polluting gases into the atmosphere by allowing participating polluting nations or companies to either reduce their total emissions or buy credits from less polluting nations or companies. Works on the practice of compensating for the carbon dioxide emissions produced by one activity or in one location, by voluntarily paying for a corresponding reduction in such emissions produced by a different activity or in a different location are entered under [Carbon offsetting.]

  • Example Notes

    • Note under [Carbon offsetting]

  • Change Notes

    • 1992-11-03: new
    • 2008-02-22: revised

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