Germany is pushing for a transatlantic emissions trading scheme by 2012 beginning with linking the current EU environment laws with those in certain US states.
According to Financial Times Deutschland, Berlin wants to start a greenhouse gas trading scheme with California and other states so long as the US does not have a unified scheme of its own.
The EU has had such a scheme - whereby industry gets a certain number of pollution credits which manufacturers can sell or buy between ...
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