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1. cap-and-trade

   Emissions trading is a market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants. The concept is also known as cap and trade (CAT) or emissions trading scheme (ETS). Carbon emission trading for CO2 and other greenhouse gases has been introduced in China, the European Union and other countries as a key tool for climate change mitigation. Other schemes include sulfur dioxide and other pollutants. In an emissions trading scheme, a central authority or governmental body allocates or sells a limited number (a "cap") of permits that allow a discharge of a specific quantity of a specific pollutant over a set time period. Polluters are required to hold permits in amount equal to their emissions. Polluters that want to increase their emissions must buy permits from others willing to sell them.Emissions trading is a type of flexible environmental regulation that allows organizations and markets to decide how best to meet policy targets. This is in contrast to command-and-control environmental regulations such as best available technology (BAT) standards and government subsidies.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of cap-and-trade in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

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   The numerical value of cap-and-trade in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of cap-and-trade in a Sentence

1. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk:

   Right now we have an incentive structure that is designed to slow it down( transition from fossil fuels), if countries decide to do a carbon tax or cap and trade, and it is real and not watered-down and weak, I think we can see a transition that is in the 15 to 20 years time frame as supposed to 40 to 50 years time frame.

2. Tim Knopp:

   The public were very much opposed to the cap and trade policies which in that bill were very expensive, inefficient, and complicated, generally, the public is in favor of ballot security, voter ID, and making sure the elections are fair and the count is accurate.

3. The CHSRA:

   What you’re seeing was not a surprise, cap-and-trade is a very attractive funding source. But as a financing source, it’s not there yet. This is a matter of both time and the marketplace getting used to these revenues.

4. Bill McKibben:

   With all the lobbyists on earth, environmentalists couldn't get cap and trade done.

5. President Barack Obama:

   It may be that the politics around setting up a cap-and-trade system, for example, shifts as well, obviously I'm not under any illusion that this Congress will impose something like that.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cap-and-Trade