Emissions Trading Scheme

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
ETS
Pronunciation
/ɪˈmɪʃənz ˈtreɪdɪŋ skim/
Category
Academic & Science
Related Field
Meteorology

Examples in Context

  1. When he withdrew a bill to introduce a domestic emissions trading scheme, his ratings collapsed.
  2. However, he also believes that European business could benefit if the market-friendly emissions trading scheme is extended to cars and airlines by encouraging it to invest in new technology and reducing emissions in the developing world.
  3. Dozens of countries, including the US and Russia, have attacked Brussels for making all airlines flying into the EU subject to its carbon emissions trading scheme from this year.
  4. But the decision by the European Union to extend to the aviation industry its emissions trading scheme has brought about an alliance of rivals.
  5. The EU's carbon price was created under the bloc's emissions trading scheme, by which companies in energy-intensive industries are allocated trade-able permits to produce CO2.

Other meanings of ETS