In a nutshell, power plant owners can transfer low-cost emissions reductions between states whose compliance plans share common elements -- credits defined in the same way and mechanisms to protect against double counting.
(a) half of global emissions soon will be from nations without constraints; (b) the world's largest emitter -- China -- is unconstrained; (c) aggregate compliance costs are driven up to be four times their cost-effective level, because many opportunities for low-cost emissions abatement in emerging economies are taken off the table; and.
The ERF is a reverse auction market mechanism to buy low-cost emission reduction activities in the Australian economy, with the Australian Government initially allocating $1.55 billion to the Fund over a three year period commencing 1 July 2014 (Commonwealth of Australia 2013).
In regard to "what flexibility," many types of actions offer low-cost emission reductions, and a cap-and-trade system allows emission reductions through whatever measures are least costly.
Here the result will most likely be exemptions of sectors and firms, which reduces environmental effectiveness and drives up costs (as some low-cost emission reduction opportunities are left off the table).
From a market perspective, the double-counting kerfuffle could mean countries export fewer of their "low-cost" emission reductions, and instead use those to meet their own targets, according to Jeff Swartz, IETA's International Policy Director.
But the key difference is that political pressures on a carbon tax system will most likely lead to exemptions of sectors and firms, which reduces environmental effectiveness and drives up costs, as some low-cost emission reduction opportunities are left off the table.
It substitutes a huge amount of low cost, phony emissions reductions both here and abroad -- called offsets -- for actual domestic emissions reductions.
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