Sentence examples for freely allocating from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, an energy expert at Rice University, Amy Myers Jaffe, pointed out how all the benefits to the coal industry provided by the Waxman-Markey bill undermine the global warming cause by freely allocating one third of the emission allowances to the coal-dominated power industry.

The most politically salient question with the Waxman-Markey approach of freely allocating a significant portion of the allowances to the private sector is how to distribute (that is, who gets) those allowances which are freely allocated.

Generally speaking, the choice between auctioning and freely allocating allowances does not influence firms' production and emission reduction decisions.

If allowances are freely allocated, the allocation should be on the basis of some historical measures, such as output or emissions in a (previous) base year, not on the basis of measures which firms can affect, such as output or emissions in the current year.

New analysis from energy advisory firm RepuTex warns that the government could be facing a $2bn bill if companies rush to cash in their freely allocated permits before the carbon price is repealed.

"Should the (carbon price) be disbanded from end of September 2014, Reputex notes that the government can expect companies to utilise the buy-back facility before the permits become worthless, with government facing a bill in excess of A$2bn to cash in nearly 87m freely allocated permits," Reputex said.

It is shown that additional to the freely allocated allowances, nearly all aircraft operators need to purchase allowances for about one third of their emissions in 2012.

The percentage of freely allocated allowances for low cost and charter carriers (LCC) is in between the corresponding percentages for EU-based and non-EU-based network carriers.

For EU-based carriers, the percentage of freely allocated allowances compared to the total allowances required will remain below the corresponding level for non-EU carriers.

In principle, several scenarios concerning the pass-through of acquisition costs and opportunity costs of freely allocated allowances can be considered.

The benchmark, calculated by dividing the amount of freely allocated allowances by the tonne-kilometres reported for the year 2010 is estimated by our model at 0.60 kg CO2 per RTK.