Obama's big initiative will be some sort of cap-and-trade scheme for carbon dioxide emissions.
The whole idea of a cap-and-trade scheme is that you fix quantity, not price.
The cap-and-trade scheme he wanted to adopt to cut greenhouse-gas emissions evaporated in the febrile air of Congress.
The European Union, which already restricts greenhouse-gas emissions through a cap-and-trade scheme, unveiled further incentives for CCS last year.
In Europe's cap-and-trade scheme, the European Union allocated emissions allowances for free to emitters of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases.
It has drawn up a shortlist of options, including a carbon tax or cap-and-trade scheme that would apply to all airlines.
The United States House of Representatives recently passed the Waxman-Markey Bill, setting an emissions reduction target and introducing a cap and trade scheme.
By the same token, he had supported a regional cap-and-trade scheme to trim greenhouse-gas emissions in Massachusetts before renouncing it late in his governorship.
He still favours an unpopular cap-and-trade scheme for emissions (like Mr Obama), but this month courted carmakers by supporting low-interest government loans to them.
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But the euro crisis has reduced industrial activity (cutting pollution) and European firms were anyway given overly generous carbon quotas under the cap-and-trade scheme.
The draft rules also outline a new cap-and-trade scheme for key pollutants, and will require the largest culprits to publicly disclose their emissions -- which environmentalists said was a step toward greater transparency.
For its 2012 report, Bloomberg New Energy Finance said that U.S. companies purchased more voluntary carbon offsets than any other country, to support American climate change projects in the absence of a U.S. federal cap and trade scheme.
Mr Obama, of course, had called for such an overarching plan, in the form of a cap-and-trade scheme for all big sources of emissions, only to be rebuffed by the Senate, thanks not just to Republicans but to a number of conservative Democrats too.
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They enthusiastically backed the federal cash-for-clunkers car trade-in scheme.
Sadie Chalkley, president of the Tenbury Wells Chamber of Trade, said the loyalty scheme would be "very helpful" to local businesses.
At the heart of the package is an acceleration of the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) scheme, the centerpiece of the group's effort to increase cooperation in the face of economic globalization.
Businesses in a Worcestershire town are hoping a lottery-based loyalty scheme will help their trade while their river bridge is closed.
Mr Lagos can point to achievements, including an unemployment insurance scheme and free-trade agreements with the United States and the European Union.
He pointed to the creation of a voluntary code of practice by trade associations, but said a compulsory registration scheme would simply regulate those in least need "while the cowboy continued to operate".
The new rule, which came into force in January, means that all airlines have to add up greenhouse gas emissions from flights that begin or end at EU airports, and must pay a small charge, or trade carbon permits on the EU emission trading scheme, if they exceed their allowance.
It credits him for Taiwan's global competitiveness, strong trade ties with the mainland, a visa waiver scheme with the US and a fisheries agreement with Japan.
To their credit, ministers have pledged to try to get flying included in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme, a cap-and-trade arrangement for discouraging reliance on carbon.
Budget constraints are pushing Congress in the opposite direction: trade-adjustment assistance, a long-standing scheme to help those deemed to have lost their jobs to globalisation, expired recently.
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It secured a resolution in Canada's parliament instructing the country's negotiators in world-trade talks not to accept changes to a price-support scheme.
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That could be a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, such as Europe's Emissions-Trading Scheme, which limits how much producers can emit, and lets them buy and sell emissions credits.
Devon and Cornwall Police said the scheme was working and was making scrap dealers more aware of the trade in illegal metal.
Think about the trade-offs going through the minds of the congressmen who cooked up this convoluted scheme.
America's government has accepted a petition from an international trade union to review worker rights in Sri Lanka as part of its own GSP scheme.
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Ryan's desire to re-emphasize the scheme in 2012 led to the Jets' hiring Sparano in January and their trade for Tebow in March.
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