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| Can Companies
Start Trading Certified Greenhouse Gas Reduction Credits? by Mark Perlis
The promise of the Kyoto Protocol is that early actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions will be valuable. The premise of credit for early action legislation is that companies need tangible government commitments to recognize the value inherent in early reductions in GHG emissions. While international negotiations about the Kyoto Protocol meander and while domestic politics stymie credit for early action legislation, proactive companies want to get started now. But, in the face of considerable uncertainty about the political fate of both treaty and legislation and about the ultimate rules authorizing tradable credits, what is a proactive company to do? Click here to continue... |
Note to
EPA: Forget Section 126 by David Wojick, Ph.D.
The Environmental Protection Agency's frustration with the recent delays imposed by the U.S. Court of Appeals is understandable, but EPA shouldn't throw the emissions trading baby out with the bath water. Specifically, it should not impose Section 126 controls on power plants in the OTAG region, as it has threatened to do. Emissions trading in the 22 state OTAG control region is a crucial next step on the road to global trading. The SO2 trading program is working nicely and come next year it will be truly national. NOx trading in the OTC region is coming along, albeit being somewhat flaky due to state-by-state differences. The great Kyoto is in the wings, where debate over global trading has become the sole issue to resolve among the developed nations. Never mind that the Kyoto Protocol per se may never be ratified because of intransigence on the part of China and the Group of 77, the point is that trading must maintain momentum. Click here to continue... |
Also in this issue:
1998 - 1999 Officers and Directors
NOx... HOW MUCH TRADING IN OUR FUTURE? PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS The first NOx Budget Period in the OTC The 22 State NOx SIP Call - Pro and Con Regulators on NOx Emissions Trading How much Control for Trading Different Perspectives. Click here for more information on the Fall Annual Meeting |
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