Meanings
nounemissions trading (uncountable)
- uncountableA market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants.
Yet the Kyoto Protocol's most enduring legacy may be a uniquely American idea - that "emissions trading" can help control heat-trapping gases at low cost.
2005 February 17, David B. Sandalow, “Emissions trading is Kyoto's success story”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
Translations
German Emissionshandel, Emissionsrechtehandel
- Emissionshandelapproach to controlling pollution
- Emissionsrechtehandelapproach to controlling pollution
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