Noun
emissions trading (uncountable)
A market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants.
But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it. Malcolm Turnbull
It is literally crazy to be committing to an ETS (emissions trading scheme) before seeing the outcome of Copenhagen . . . and frankly idiotic before we see the final form of the US emissions trading scheme. Nick Minchin
Emissions trading programmes such as the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) complement the country-to-country trading stipulated in the Kyoto Protocol by allowing private trading of permits. Source: Internet
Example Emissions trading through Gains from Trade can be more beneficial for both the buyer and the seller than a simple emissions capping scheme. Source: Internet
Energy intensive industries will continue to receive free carbon emissions allowances, as compensation for the EU’s stricter climate rules, under planned reforms to the EU’s Emissions Trading System (ETS), but fewer will be granted. Source: Internet
However the agricultural and land-use sector is so far being kept outside the bloc’s carbon market – the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). Source: Internet