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| ''Environmental policy''.
| | The market in which shares are issued and traded, either through exchanges or over-the-counter markets. |
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| An administrative approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.
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| For example, the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) is a mandatory cap and trade scheme that requires Europe's heavy industries and power generators, as the continent's major emitters of carbon dioxide, to monitor and report annually on their carbon dioxide emissions and to purchase and return an amount of emissions allowances to the government that represents each year's carbon dioxide output.
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| :<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Emissions to fall as caps reduced'''''</span>
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| :"Emissions trading works by setting a cap on the total amount of greenhouse gases that can be emitted by polluters and issuing allowances accordingly.
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| :The cap [for a given polluter] is reduced over time so that [their] total emissions fall.
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| :Carbon allowances can be bought at auction and traded, and these markets determine the carbon price."
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| :''Climate change A to Z - Financial Times.''
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| | Also known as the stock market. |
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| == See also == | | == See also == |
| * [[Cap and trade]] | | * [[Share]] |
| * [[Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism]] | | * [[Stock exchange]] |
| * [[Carbon trading]]
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| * [[EU Emissions Trading System]] (EU ETS)
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| * [[Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting]]
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| * [[UK Emissions Trading Scheme]] (UK ETS)
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| ==External link==
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| *[https://www.ft.com/content/c617f52a-b46a-4581-8b66-8d92f672f77c Climate change A to Z - Financial Times]
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Revision as of 21:45, 28 June 2013
The market in which shares are issued and traded, either through exchanges or over-the-counter markets.
Also known as the stock market.
See also
