Also like Mr Obama, he proposes a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gases, but he would give away the permits, not auction them.

同奥巴马一样，为了解决温室效应，他也提倡建立总量管制与排放交易体系，但他会分发许可证，而不是拍卖它们。

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Mr Obama wants to auction off, rather than give away, permits to emit carbon dioxide.

奥巴马想对二氧化碳的排放许可进行拍卖，而不是采取分发的方式。

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Two of them plan to auction all the permits, unlike the countries in the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme, which handed them out for nothing.

其中2个州采取的方式与欧盟排放交易计划的无偿分配方式不同，他们选择以竞拍形式发放配额。

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Second, auction permits (which are, in effect, money) rather than giving them away free.

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The backloading proposal put forth by the Commission called for delaying the auction of 900 million permits by five to seven years.

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To pay for his plans and get the deficit down to manageable levels, he would return top tax rates to where they were before George Bush cut them, extract more from the rich by capping their deductions, increase taxes on corporations and auction carbon-emission permits.

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