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It is Europe's largest thermal power plant and its biggest polluter, emitting the equivalent of close to 39 million tonnes of CO2 last year, a rise of 31% from 2010 thanks to the commissioning of a new unit in September.
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Against this backdrop, it is only a matter of time before a meaningful carbon price - hitting polluters for emitting CO2 - is introduced, a price that will have a profound impact on the global oil market.
It would charge polluters for emitting harmful gases by taxing $24 per metric ton on industrial carbon-dioxide emissions beginning in 2020 and increasing annually.
Under such a program, a limit is set on emissions, and polluters can emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases only by obtaining permits.
The credits now cost about $140 each and allow polluters to emit one ton of sulfur dioxide, a major contributor to acid rain and smog.
The review also recommended the government strengthen its "safeguards" policy, which sets limits on how much greenhouse gas Australia's biggest polluters can emit but is now so generous it doesn't act to reduce emissions.
One long-proposed solution has been to put a tax on carbon, thereby financially incentivizing polluters to emit less and ultimately wean off fossil fuels. .
It would be possible but wrong to establish a cap-and-trade system that allows other polluters to emit more greenhouse gases if companies, states or cities emit less.
The "climate credits" come by way of Assembly Bill 32 -- the Global Warming Solutions Act passed in 2006 that required the state's biggest polluters, namely power plants, to acquire limited permits for each ton of pollution they emit in effort to bring greenhouse gas emissions back to 1990 levels by 2020.
At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.
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