Environmental issues emission trading

A nonprofit trade organization that acts as a clearinghouse for medical and technical information about asbestos and asbestos-related products, with emphasis on safety, health, and environmental issues. Works with government agencies to develop and implement industry-wide standards for exposure to asbestos dust emissions into community air and water and exchanges information on methods and techniques of asbestos dust control. Maintains a reference library on asbestos-related subjects. 

Another important issue that influences the environmental incentives of emissions trading is related to closures. If operators lose their allowances to closed installations30, they have an incentive to keep old, inefficient installations running - or at least not close them completely. This may be environmentally and/or economically inefficient. If, on the other hand, companies were allowed to keep allowances to closed installations, they might get an incentive to move part of their production to countries outside the EU. Earmarking of allowances from closed installations to new installations could solve this problem. This was discussed in connection with the first Danish NAP, but not implemented31. 

As a result, Hungary traditionally devotes only meagre resources to climate change issues in general. In a period when environmental ministries were all but overwhelmed by the tasks of EU accession, the climate change administration typically had one or two persons in 2003, when the EU ETS Directive appeared on their horizon. Though further manpower eventually became available for the implementation of emissions trading, the severe lack of human resources proved to be a constant impediment. 

A detailed comparison of the existing biofuel certification schemes based on their principles, criteria, and indicators regarding key socioeconomic and environmental issues was conducted by Van Dam et al. (2010). Some of the systems cover certain selective areas in biomass production (i.e., agriculture, forest, and fair trade). Various initiatives propose or are developing methodologies and default values to calculate the reduction of GHG emissions for bioenergy chains. 

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