cap-and-trade
adjective
: relating to or being a system that caps the amount of carbon emissions a given company may produce but allows it to buy rights to produce additional emissions from a company that does not use the equivalent amount of its own allowance
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The Obama Administration’s major climate initiative was based on cap-and-trade, which allows companies to buy and sell emission allowances.
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Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Repealing cap-and-trade Washington's cap-and-trade law puts a price on greenhouse gas emissions, and also requires some of the state's biggest polluters to reduce their carbon footprint over time.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
Republicans voiced concerns that prices will continue to go up next year under changes to the cap-and-trade program and the state’s low carbon fuel standard.
—Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
With cap-and-trade dead in the Oregon Legislature, Brown had issued an executive order mandating statewide controls on greenhouse gas emissions.
—Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2024
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Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
Repealing cap-and-trade Washington's cap-and-trade law puts a price on greenhouse gas emissions, and also requires some of the state's biggest polluters to reduce their carbon footprint over time.
—Melissa Santos, Axios, 21 Oct. 2024
Republicans voiced concerns that prices will continue to go up next year under changes to the cap-and-trade program and the state’s low carbon fuel standard.
—Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2024
With cap-and-trade dead in the Oregon Legislature, Brown had issued an executive order mandating statewide controls on greenhouse gas emissions.
—Mckenzie Funk, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2024
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