emissions trading

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emissions trading (uncountable)

  1. A market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing incentives for reducing the emissions of pollutants.
    • 2005 February 17, David B. Sandalow, “Emissions trading is Kyoto's success story”, in The New York Times‎[1], →ISSN:
      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.

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