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Bookmark or Share- How cap and trade works | Environmental Defense FundCap and trade reduces emissions, such as those from power plants, by setting a limit on pollution and creating a market. The cap on greenhouse gas emissions that drive global warming is a firm limit on pollution.
- Emissions Trading - US EPALearn about emissions trading programs, also known as cap and trade programs, which are market-based policy tools for protecting human health and the environment by controlling emissions from a group of sources.
- Cap and Trade Basics - Center for Climate and Energy SolutionsCap and trade is an approach that harnesses market forces to reduce emissions cost-effectively. Like other market-based strategies, it differs from “command-and-control” approaches where the government sets performance standards or dictates technology choices for individual facilities.
- Cap-and-trade programme - UNFCCCAn Emission Trading System (ETS) – also known as cap and trade – is a tradable-permit system for GHG emissions. It sets a limit (the cap) on the GHG emissions that can be emitted.
- Carbon emission trading - WikipediaCarbon emission trading (also called carbon market, emission trading scheme (ETS) or cap and trade) is a type of emissions trading scheme designed for carbon dioxide (CO 2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs).
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