2016年1月23日 星期六

pollution. polluter, cap-and-trade system, "cut" , "slash" or "trim", shave


2015.9
China to Announce Cap-and-Trade Program to Limit Emissions

By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS and CORAL DAVENPORT

China will announce a landmark commitment on Friday to limit and put a price on greenhouse gas emissions, a substantial step by the world's largest polluter.


2009
The company said Thursday that it would seek to shave an additional $1 billion a year from the company’s costs by 2011.




The WP and LAT call the president's first budget "ambitious." Obama hopes to use the plan to make progress on health-care reform and move toward a cap-and-trade system for energy use. But the effort to "cut" (LAT), "slash" (NYT) or merely "trim" (WP) the deficit grabs the headlines.



Still more ambitious, flexible, and demanding in terms of government infrastructure is a cap-and-trade system, where sources in an area may trade pollution reduction responsibilities among themselves to meet an aggregate emissions cap for a given region. Under this system, the regulatory authorities decide on the aggregate level of allowable emissions for all the parties participating in the program (the "cap") and then it allocates to each party a portion of this amount in the form of "allowances," which are tradable rights to pollute. Once allowances are allocated, parties are prohibited from emitting more pollution than their allocation, unless they purchase additional allowances from another party.



  • pollution
    [名詞]1 よごすこと,汚染;不潔,よごれ;環境汚染,公害;(精神の)堕落 mercury pollution水銀汚染 a pollution-free factory無公害工場 air pol...
    英和大辞典
  • pollution
    《名詞》汚染;公害
    E-DIC
  • pollution tax
    公害税,環境汚染税:環境汚染などの害を起こす製品やそれを製造している企業に対して賦課すべきだ

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