cap-and-trade
adjective (prenominal)
denoting a scheme which allows companies with high greenhouse gas emissions to buy an emission allowance from companies which have fewer emissions, in a bid to reduce the overall impact to the environment
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Contemporary Examples of cap-and-trade
That legislation included a cap-and-trade plan to lower carbon emissions.
Obama’s New Emissions Rules Will Yank the Climate Change Debate Back Into RealitySally Kohn
June 2, 2014
A carbon tax or cap-and-trade regime is probably not going to happen.
Theda Skopcol has written a lengthy post-mortem on the failure of cap-and-trade legislation aimed at reducing carbon emissions.
Cap-and-trade is much kludgier than carbon taxes; subsidies to wind and solar are kludgier than cap and trade.
Ryan opposed a cap-and-trade program on energy in 2009, calling it “job-killing.”