Carbon Cap and Trade

Cap and trade comes in two parts: a cap on total emissions and a system that allows trading to achieve that limit as cost-effectively as possible.

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Cap and trade comes in two parts: a cap on total emissions and a system that allows trading to achieve that limit as cost-effectively as possible. The resulting market and price on emissions create incentives for reducing carbon pollution. Properly designed, carbon cap and trade can be a powerful tool in the fight to avert the most dangerous consequences of global warming. It has increasingly been shown as such around the world.

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