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Climate Change Act 2008

Section 44: Trading schemes

203.This section provides the relevant national authority (defined in section 47 as the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers or the relevant Northern Ireland department) with the power to set up trading schemes relating to greenhouse gas emissions using secondary legislation.

204.Subsection (2)(a) provides for trading schemes which limit activities that consist of the emission of greenhouse gases, or that directly or indirectly lead to such emissions (for example, “cap and trade schemes” which cap emissions from a particular set of activities and allow trading of emissions within the cap). Subsection (2)(b) provides for trading schemes which encourage activities that directly or indirectly lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions or the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

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