Change the price of carbon emissions through a tax or a cap and trade system: then stop.
Under a cap and trade system, incentives toward efficiency would be even stronger.
In a moment, we'll tell you about the fight over the trillions of dollars that this cap and trade system will cost.
Under a cap and trade system, whether the chief financial officer places the right bet on purchasing permits can make or break an energy-intensive company.
There are two basic ways to deal with emissions: a cap and trade system or a carbon tax (any others, like regulation, are simply too stupid for words).
All Very Serious People knew that you could not reduce carbon emissions or drive clean energy innovation without a price on carbon, either through a carbon tax or a cap and trade system.
Richardson also proposes the implementation of a market-based cap and trade system for greenhouse gas emissions in order to create incentives for the electric and industrial sectors to make significant reductions in their carbon emissions.
The decision to go with a carbon tax or a market based cap and trade system or other alternatives is best left to the particular jurisdiction after discussions between that government and affected industries have taken place.
They all have had a strong position on the need to have mandatory limits and the cap-and-trade system that drives costs down.
This would make it much easier for Mr Obama to pass his two big domestic proposals: heath-care reform and a cap-and-trade system for curbing carbon emissions.
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NextEra says that it is a fairer way to measure results and that it is easier to administer than a cap-and-trade system.
However, in a cap and trade or permit system the limit on emissions is the number of permits, the cap.
Although most economists argue that a carbon tax would be the most efficient solution, Sir Nicholas is neutral between a carbon tax and the other ways of raising the cost of emitting carbon by regulation or a cap-and-trade system.
Carbon cap-and-trade system for electric utilities starting in 2013 and for heavy manufacturing starting in 2016.
One of the most damaging proposals is a cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse gas emissions.
The second is a cap-and-trade system of the sort Europe introduced to meet the Kyoto targets.
An energy bill passed last year by the House of Representatives included a controversial cap-and-trade system.
Heavy industry will not pay, on the ground that it is already contributing through Europe's cap-and-trade system.
The thinking varies on exactly what the expected economic impact would be of a national carbon cap-and-trade system.
He soon broke ranks with utility executives by supporting a cap-and-trade system for sulfur dioxide and other coal-plant pollutants.
Sulphur dioxide pollution in America has been cut by a successful cap-and-trade system.
He called for a cap-and-trade system to reduce the growth of greenhouse-gas emissions.
Mr Dion has agreed to drop his unpopular carbon tax (he now backs a cap-and-trade system for carbon emissions).
The EU has had a cap-and-trade system since 2005, and it has already boosted power prices between 5% and 10%.
Europe adopted a cap-and-trade system to cut its emissions under Kyoto only because America was plugging the idea before it pulled out.
The president could stop the EPA from imposing a job-destroying cap-and-trade system.
The more volatile cap-and-trade system, however, is easier to sell to producers, who can get free allowances when the scheme is introduced.
Also like Mr Obama, he proposes a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, but he would give away the permits, not auction them.
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Back in 2008, Obama said he favored a cap-and-trade system so severe it would effectively prohibit the construction of new coal plants.
Under a cap-and-trade system, a regulatory body allocates CO2 emission allowances to companies, typically by way of auction, but sometimes for no cost.
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