Americas > Oregon ETS should favour industrial free allocation over exemption -report

Oregon ETS should favour industrial free allocation over exemption -report

Published 23:02 on January 22, 2019  /  Last updated at 23:34 on January 22, 2019  / Matthew Lithgow /  Americas, Canada, US

Oregon can improve the environmental and economic performance of its planned cap-and-trade programme by freely allocating carbon allowances to the industrial sector rather than exempting those companies from the scheme entirely, according to a study released Tuesday.
Oregon can improve the environmental and economic performance of its planned cap-and-trade programme by freely allocating carbon allowances to the industrial sector rather than exempting those companies from the scheme entirely, according to a study released Tuesday.


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