Sentence examples for emission allowances from inspiring English sources

Companies that exceed their carbon dioxide emission allowances could buy credits from those that pollute less.

It will let dirty plants avoid fines by buying emission allowances from clean ones.

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Moreover, European companies get increased emission allowances at home — carbon credits — by mounting green cleanup projects elsewhere.

Companies are required to measure their emissions in tons and obtain an equal number of emission allowances, which can then be traded with other companies.

Today, Mr. Burtraw said, "there is a potentially tremendous transfer of wealth in the initial distribution of emission allowances," running into billions of dollars.

It distributes a substantial portion of emission allowances to regulated, local distribution companies and helps to protect electricity customers from unnecessary price rises.

In a yearlong analysis completed in late 2012, RGGI states found that market factors similar to those seen in Europe caused a reduction in demand for emission allowances.

Some 85% of the $650 billion raised from auctioning emission allowances would have gone to programmes that have nothing to do with climate change.

We estimate that an annual auction of only 3% of these emission allowances would yield €14 billion ($17 billion) to pay for forest protection.

In the proposed legislation, Congress granted free emission allowances to coal-burning utilities to forestall the possibility of huge increases in electric bills.