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trading emissions  

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  • Emissions trading is an environmental regulation tool that allows polluters to exchange emission rights to meet a given target, which is exogenously set by the regulator. Emission rights are usually distributed to polluters for free (proportional to their recent emissions), or they can be auctioned. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Warming & Climate Change; Emissions, Trading]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GWGLW5T8-J

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