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Debate: Carbon emissions trading
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View (previous 50) (next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).- Argument: Carbon trading incentivizes companies to cut emissions
- Argument: Cap-and-trade systems ensure emissions reductions to the set cap
- Argument: Emissions trading doesn't ensure reductions in local emissions
- Argument: Carbon trading encourages efficient emissions reductions
- Argument: Cap-and-trade systems are flexible in the global economy
- Argument: Cap-and-trade systems are implemented too slowly
- Argument: Cap-and-trade systems are susceptible to corruption
- Argument: Governments under cap-and-trade systems have an incentive to "cheat"
- Argument: Cap-and-trade systems are susceptible to distortion by lobby groups
- Argument: Cap-and-trade systems create emissions caps arbitrarily
- Argument: Carbon trading wrongly turns atmosphere into tradeable property
- Argument: Emissions trading will worsen global inequalities
- Argument: Emissions trading can disproportionately pollute poor countries
- Argument: Europe's cap-and-trade system has encountered major problems
- Argument: EU cap-and-trade system is new; difficulties will be worked out
- Argument: The EU Emissions Trading System is a success and model
- Argument: US cap-and-trade in sulfur dioxide was successful
- Argument: The Chicago Climate Exchange is a success and model
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- Argument: Emissions trading involves sufficient democratic control
- Argument: Cap-and-trade schemes cause job loss
- Argument: Emissions trading increases government costs and lowers revenue
- Argument: Economic costs of cap-and-trade outweigh environmental gain
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- Argument: Emissions trading encourages investments in best technologies
- Argument: Emissions trading wrongly allows companies to buy right to pollute
- Argument: Emissions trading has govt not markets set cap
- Argument: Global CO2 trading not like US sulfur trading
- Argument: A cap-and-trade system is "progressive"
