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...economy, either through tax rebates or through massive public projects, but there is a simpler way. Many of the United States’ largest employment industries often spend much of their money complying with very strict Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations on the release of certain compounds such as carbon monoxide and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). According to the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act alone is costing the industry $523 billion over 23 years, money that could be better spent elsewhere. If the government was simply to eliminate these standards, the industry could start to hire back its workforce...
Friday, Feb. 25. Big Head Todd and the Monsters. With Carbon Leaf. 18+. 7 p.m. Avalon, 15 Landsdowne St., Boston. $22.50. Tickets available through Ticketmaster...
...European staff of CO2e, a top player in the emerging global market in greenhouse-gas emissions. Owned by Cantor, the global financial- services firm, and its Japanese junior partner Mitsui & Co., CO2e's goal is to help mitigate the effects of global warming by buying and selling carbon dioxide emissions allowances. Each allowance unit gives its holder the right to emit one metric...
...inquiry pops up on a CO2e computer screen from a potential customer in India. Nicola Steen, CO2e's vice president and transaction specialist, is pleased. "It doesn't matter where in the world that you reduce a metric ton of carbon dioxide," she says. "If you can reduce emissions from what they otherwise would have been, that's a good thing...
...greenhouse-gas emissions that forms a pillar of the Kyoto accord on climate change, which goes into effect this week. Under the scheme, the total emissions of developed nations are limited, or "capped" at a fixed level, and each nation assigns a number of CO2 allowances to its major carbon-emitting sectors; companies that have unused allowances (as a result, for example, of antipollution improvements) may sell their excess allowances to companies that need them. Theoretically, the wisdom of the marketplace will lower the cost of reducing harmful gases. Letting participants buy or sell emissions allowances at a price determined...