Such a technique would then allow utilities to spend money on the kinds of technologies needed to cut emissions, instead of having to buy credits.
Poor nations are divided about this - they want the US to buy credits from them, but they also want to ensure that America makes deeper cuts at home.
The protocol sets binding greenhouse gas limits on 38 industrialized nations and sets up apparatus such as "emissions trading, " in which a country having trouble meeting its requirements can buy credits from others that exceed them.
If a coal-focused utility wanted to stay in business it would have to buy sufficient credits to balance out its coal.
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On Thursday, Uber plans to announce Uber Perks, a system that allows companies to buy Uber credits on behalf of their employees.
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Companies that produce more pollution would then have to buy carbon credits from those who find a cleaner way of doing business.
Its Ohio River basin water-quality trading project will allow those facing high pollution-control costs to buy reduction credits from those whose costs are lower.
When the companies forced to buy carbon credits are energy companies, the costs they incur could ultimately get passed down the line, which would then mean higher fuel bills.
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One such emerging tool is the voluntary carbon emission market, a place where corporations voluntarily buy emission credits to offset their own carbon emissions without regard for any requirement like a carbon cap.
The RPS would require utilities to use a minimum percentage of clean power--such as wind, hydropower or solar energy--in their overall fuel mix, or it would require electric companies to buy renewable credits from each other.
Bank balance sheets have swollen further as a consequence of the sharp reduction in investor willingness to buy securitized credits, which has forced banks to retain a substantially higher share of previously committed and new loans in their own portfolios.
Customers can opt to be on the pay as you go program (which the Tax Day promotion will apply to) where they buy email credits in advance, much like postage stamps (one credit is used per email address on their list), or on the monthly subscription program.
If you buy and hold Facebook credits (used to buy virtual goods in games on Facebook) Facebook treats the purchase as deferred revenue the same way a retailer would book the sale of a gift card until you spend your credits.
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You can, in fact, put down your credit card and buy as many credits as you want for 10 cents each, with discounts when you buy large quantities.
The GOP would also allow individuals to buy policies across state lines and provide refundable tax credits to buy insurance.
Until now people had only been able to use Credits to buy virtual goods for games, as well as for some digital products such as movies.
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The old Soviet government had wanted Zelenograd to be its Silicon Valley: it used some of its last foreign credits to buy and install Japanese-made equipment there.
Among other initiatives, it has launched a stormwater credit market, whereby developers and property owners subject to tougher new stormwater management regulations can buy and sell stormwater credits.
That could be a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system, such as Europe's Emissions-Trading Scheme, which limits how much producers can emit, and lets them buy and sell emissions credits.
The bill being proposed would reduce nationwide greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050 through a so-called "cap-and-trade" program under which companies would buy and sell emissions credits.
Triangulate operates Wings as a free app, but makes money off of the Facebook Credits its users buy to connect or communicate with each other.
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The schools buy "renewable-energy credits" from providers like Community Energy and FPL Energy to ensure that wind and other clean power sources feed the grid that provides their electricity.
People who earn up to 300% of the poverty level would be eligible for tax credits to help them buy insurance, and some would also be eligible for certain cost-sharing assistance.
Teicher notes the liquidation of Borders in 2011, but also credits the ongoing "buy local" movement and independents' growing comfort with modern technology, whether for more efficient inventory systems or more effective online promotion.
They will lack access to affordable employer-based family coverage and still be locked out of tax credits to help them buy coverage for their kids in the marketplaces, or exchanges, being established in every state.
Could Facebook Credits ever be used to buy real goods, putting it in direct competition with the likes of Amazon, PayPal and eBay?
Tax bills have become feeding frenzies for special interests, as well as a way for pols to try to buy votes through manufacturing ever more tax credits.
But they're going to make hundreds of millions of dollars this year, just by creating their credits which is used to buy virtual goods in games on Facebook.
Clinton also includes tax credits to individuals to help buy health insurance and would require large businesses to provide or help pay for health insurance for their employees.
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